The most complete specimen, a juvenile, was about six feet long.
I presume you are talking about transitional fossils, and Lucy, the 40% complete specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.
At least one nearly complete specimen with a skull has been recovered.
The first complete specimen of Archaeopteryx was discovered in Germany in 1861, two years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Though no complete specimen exists today, the birds were recorded at weights of up to 50 pounds.
With 85 per cent of her skeleton intact – 18ft long and 9.5ft tall – she is the world's most complete specimen of the easily recognisable dinosaur.
Among them was a remarkably complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator, the largest known crocodilian at approximately 12.2 metres (40 feet) long.
Considering that perhaps the world's most famous Tyrannosaurus rex — the nearly complete specimen at the Field Museum in Chicago known as Sue — was bought for $8.3 million a few years ago, Dr. Lamanna is just happy they made the deal.
In February, the researchers discovered a wooden wheel, the oldest complete specimen ever found in Britain; it had an oaken axle and was made from three boards held in place by a brace with a dovetail joint.
Granville obtained the mummy and decided to autopsy it, "thus to sacrifice a most complete specimen of the art of Egyptian embalming," he wrote, "in hopes of eliciting some new facts illustrative of so curious and interesting a subject".
The evolutionary transition to full-time walking, which would have freed early humans' hands for using tools, clearly came later.Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
