Key hominid South African fossil emerges from the shadows
After being ensconced for millions of years in the heart of a
South African cave, the most complete hominid fossil found to date
is finally seeing the light of day ... or almost.
A cast of Little Foot, a fossil with both ape-like and human features, was
unveiled last week at an interactive museum at Maropeng, near the
Sterkfontein caves where it was found, effectively bringing it closer to
an eager public.
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Another cast will be displayed at New York's natural history museum and a third is already there for all to see at the Sterkfontein caves.
Little Foot generated huge excitement when it was found in the 1990s at the Sterkfontein caves north of Johannesburg as it was first dated to between 3.0 and 3.5 million-years-old.