The Little Foot fossil skeleton has more than 90 percent of its bones intact.
Notes on verification
Consistently corroborated across multiple independent scientific and press sources (Smithsonian, Live Science, National Geographic, CNN, Wikipedia, Leakey Foundation) over nearly a decade, with no contradicting reports.
Sources
- 'Little Foot' Fossil Skeleton Rivals Famous Lucy in Age (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/little-foot-most-complete-australopithecus-fossil-goes-display-180967447/ (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://leakeyfoundation.org/a-new-face-for-little-foot-australopithecus/ (leakeyfoundation.org)
- https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/science/little-foot-fossil-face-reconstruction (cnn.com)
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/science/anthropology/most-complete-fossil-early-human-relative-goes-display (mentalfloss.com)