Sentences with phrase «australopithecine skeleton»

Notably, the juvenile is the most complete australopithecine skeleton yet found from the period: it includes much of the skull and large parts of an arm, leg and pelvis.

The juvenile is the most complete australopithecine skeleton yet found from the period: it includes much of the skull and large parts of an arm, leg and pelvis.

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That skeleton makes sense if australopithecines slept in trees at night to escape predators, as chimps do today.

They detected these same modifications in a skeleton of A. africanus, another australopithecine that roamed South Africa between 2 million and 3 million years ago.

Clarke found four small australopithecine foot bones, and set off with his team to unearth the skeleton that they came from.

Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a partial skeleton which consisted of much of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.