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Ethiopia Home to Oldest Two-Footed Skeleton PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 09 March 2005
Addis Ababa, March 8 (Prensa Latina) A joint team of Ethiopian and US researchers have discovered what is considered to be the oldest skeleton dated between 3.5 and four million years old. The fossilized remains were unearthed in Afar region, in northeast Ethiopia, and constitute the fourth most ancient hominid found since 1974 both in Ethiopia and South Africa.



Paleontologists Bruce Latimer, director of the Natural History Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and his Ethiopian colleague D. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, National Museum of Addis Ababa, are yet to determine the species and gender of the discovery.



But unlike previous discoveries that consisted mainly of isolated individual bones, this time the scientists dug up portions of a skeleton, primarily vertebrae, a complete scapula of an adult, a clavicle, ribs, pelvis, and a femur, explained Latimer.



Latimer and Haile-Selassie said their discovery will "revolutionize the way wee see human evolution" since the anklebone of the new skeleton indicated it belonged to someone that walked upright on two feet.



In addition, those bones will help them establish how the ancestors of homo sapiens or modern mankind learned to walk on their two feet.

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