Discuss and explore the ways in which paleontologists reconstruct the habits of extinct organisms from looking at particular parts of their fossilized remains, using the "How did they move" section of this feature. What characteristics of the highlighted bones would be useful in determining posture? Range of motion? Dependence on arms in walking? Discuss the ways which other features of fossils can be used in generating hypothetical reconstructions of how extinct animals looked. Determining which species a series of bones belong to is no simple matter. Research and discuss the diagnostic features used most heavily by paleoanthropologists to assign hominid fossils to particular species.
