The full skeleton of Little Foot, as she is known, proves that she is more like us than an ape, with shorter arms and small hands. She probably slept in trees. Quite how she fits into our family ...

Excavations in a section of a Bavarian clay pit produced 37 fossils from the ancient ape, dubbed Danuvius guggenmosi ... 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton, including nearly complete ...

The ape had arms suited to hanging in the trees ... The male has the most complete skeleton, which resembles that of modern-day bonobos. It was about one metre in height and tipped the scales ...

"It looks like part of an arm," he says. "That means we've found another individual." The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young adolescent male, 12 or 13 years old, and an adult ...

“It appears that the inner ear provides a unique record of the evolutionary history of ape locomotion that offers an invaluable alternative to the study of the postcranial skeleton.” ...