Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has revealed unusually strong arms that distinguished H. habilis from later species.
The bones were initially found in 2012 by a team of researchers led by Meave Leakey, of the Turkana Basin Institute, and were subsequently announced in 2015 at a research conference. Now, the complete analysis of the remains has been described in a paper published Tuesday (Jan. 13) in the journal The Anatomical Record.
