Human ancestors may put a twist in Orign Story

2 million year old bones and possible skin from a pair of primate fossils have been found they are the apelike species that may have given rise to the first humans. They are known as Australopithecus sedia, the ancient human ancestor that was discovered in the Malapa region of South Africa in 2008. Scientists think that these types of human species were capable of making tools. They think that they have found samples of fossilized skin. So this could be the first time any type of soft tissue has been recovered. They come from a time period which is very important called circa two million years ago, that we don’t know a lot about. A Sediba skeleton belongs to a male child in his early teens and there is a female around 30. The new studies have shown that they have an unusual mixture of human like traits. One of the particular pelvis of a male shows that they were able t stand upright. His ankles were also very human like but the heels were thin. But the scientists also think that still at that time that they were still climbing trees. The sediba’s were also able to create stone tools. Their brains were a lot like ours now but were only the quarter size of ours but they were a little larger than a chimpanzee’s. The sediba’s female had a few hand bones but the tips of four fingers and a wrist bone are missing. They had very long thumb compared to other fingers they had so they probably had really good grip. Good fossils help us fill I the things that we have suspected.