New Evidence Suggests the First Hominin Walked on Two Legs

New year, new science. Also new week, new science; that's kinda our whole thing. This week we've got an amazing story about what researches (again) think could be the oldest bipedal hominin, ammonites that survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, and a lonely planet that we now know the mass of...

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Written by Ben Thomas, Douglas James and Nicky Thomas
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Sources:
Bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Survival of ammonites across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Free-floating exoplanet mass:
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/free-f... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Seabird conservation:
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/new...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - First Bipedal Humans?
03:55 - Ammonites Survived the Extinction
05:11 - Mass of free-floating exoplanet found
06:34 - Seabird Conservation Study
08:08 - Predictions for 2026
10:03 - Outro