which weren’t bipedal. For example, the top end of a femur has a ball-shaped bit sticking out, which fits into the pelvis. This ball is missing from the Sahelanthropus femur, but we do have the ...

and with them key diagnostic features that might have preempted debate about whether the species was bipedal. The femur’s neck, which connects toward the hip socket, would reveal if the femur ...

The structure of the femur indicates that Sahelanthropus was usually bipedal on the ground, but probably also in trees. According to results from the ulnae, this bipedalism coexisted in arboreal ...

The examination of the femur and ulnae indicated that S. tchadensis not only walked on two feet but also climbed trees, adding evidence that this enigmatic species was bipedal, as an earlier ...

“The Sahelanthropus femur doesn’t have ‘smoking-gun’ traces of bipedalism,” writes Daniel Lieberman, a palaeoanthropologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in an essay ...

“There’s a bipedal signal in any primate,” he says ... in New York says it would be useful to compare the S. tchadensis femur with a wider range of living and extinct primates.

Researchers looked at a femur and two ulna arm bones of Sahelanthropus ... and found signs that they walked on two feet – also known as bipedalism, according to a new study published Wednesday ...

The findings suggest that the ability to walk upright — known as bipedalism — occurred very ... of three fossilized limb bones — a femur from a thigh and two ulnas from forearms — found ...

"The question was whether they relied on the same adaptations." The femur, the central bone for studying bipedalism and locomotion, was therefore the focus of the young researcher's efforts during ...

In 2020, researchers described a partial femur from the same fossiliferous spot and suggested that its morphology was inconsistent with habitual bipedalism. In 2022, researchers conducted a more ...

The structure of the femur indicates that Sahelanthropus was usually bipedal on the ground, but probably also in trees. According to results from the ulnae, this bipedalism coexisted in arboreal ...