"Little Foot" is the nickname given to an extraordinarily complete fossil hominid skeleton found in 1994–1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa.
The original Little Foot specimens were found by paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke in 1994, while searching through boxes of fossil fragments labelled 'Cercopithecoids' at the site of Sterkfontein. These fragments came from the Silberberg Grotto, a large cavern within the Sterkfontein c...
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