I alluded earlier to some putative hominin remains dating back as far as seven million years but those were only known from a skull in one case and some teeth and limb bones in another case, and Ardipithecus is
a partial skeleton with many, many, many bones preserved.
The new specimen is
a partial skeleton with associated soft tissues and gastroliths, missing the skull and most of the caudal vertebrae.
Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new
partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.
Not exact matches
The
skeleton, an adult male aged around 40 at the time of his death, was shrouded in a rabbit - skin blanket and reed mats and was wearing moccasins; he was found
with the cremated or
partial remains of three other individuals.
ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the
partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave
with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two
partial skeletons of a previously unknown species
with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.
The pelvis from a
partial Ardipithecus ramidus
skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined
with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.
As a result of this bone destruction, whole
skeletons are extremely rare at Aramis,
with one fortunate exception: the
partial skeleton of Ar.