A new adult skeleton of the
4.4 million year old
hominid, Australopithecus
ramidus, has been unearthed
at Aramis in Ethiopia by
Yohannes Haile-Selassie,
who was representing a
multinational team called
Middle Awash Research
Team (MART) (Nature,
Vol 373, No 6512).
Earlier, in 1992 and
1993, MART discovered the
same species at Aramis but
only 17 fragments were
available; the new find consists of more than 90 pieces,
including skull, arms, vertebral column, pelvis and legs,
making up almost 45 per
cent of a skeleton. The leg
bones will help the scientists
know whether this species
walked erect.
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