Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of attachment for the largest and most powerful ligament in the human body.
A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered in the early 2000s—was indeed bipedal by uncovering a feature found only in bipedal hominins.
The finding is a crucial as in recent … [3653 chars]
Source: Interesting Engineering | Published: 2026-01-02T20:11:06Z
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