The researchis the first thorough quantitativeanalysisof the Orrorintugenensisfossil –afragmentary piece of femur –whichwasdiscoveredinKenyain 2000 by a French research team.
And recent computed tomography (CT) scans of the thighbone of a six-million-year-old Kenyan creature known as Orrorin tugenensis suggest it might have had quite a human gait.