A new adult skeleton of the4.4 million year oldhominid, Australopithecusramidus, has been unearthedat Aramis in Ethiopia byYohannes Haile-Selassie,who was representing amultinational team calledMiddle Awash ResearchTeam (MART) (Nature,Vol 373, No 6512).
Earlier, in 1992 and1993, MART discovered thesame species at Aramis butonly 17 fragments wereavailable; the new find consists of more than 90 pieces,including skull, arms, vertebral column, pelvis and legs,making up almost 45 percent of a skeleton. The legbones will help the scientistsknow whether this specieswalked erect.