Could Tree-Hanging Apes walk before Hominids?

We learn so much everyday about that past and even the future through fossils. Scientists have found evidence that suggests something major. Something that can uproot our fundamentals and basic understanding of what once was. Scientists have found evidence suggests tree-dwelling apes walked upright before hominids did. 

Hominids are primates of it families which includes humans and our ancestors (some of the great apes). Paleontologists found a partial skeleton of an 11.6 million year old European ape. From that very skeleton we have learned that tree-dwelling apes started walking 5 million years before members of our human evolutionary family ever did. 

 I asked Emeile Hochwald what she thought of this and she said, I find this shocking and hard to believe, “I thought our ancestors were the first people to walk this earth.” This is what most people thought and is why this skeleton comes as a real shock to the world. 

Researchers say that they found another skeleton,Danuvius,  that also indicates that, “ ... it could hang from branches, like present-day orangutans and gibbons, as well as walk on two legs slowly, somewhat like hominids that originated in Africa roughly 6 million to 7 million years ago.”

Scientists compared our bones to great apes and  Böhme saysin cosmos magazine “... it was astonishing for us to realise how similar certain bones are to humans, as opposed to great apes.” This really shows us just how we evolved and who we can trace ourselves back to. We can also learn from fossils just how our ancestors started walking. For example, according to BCC, The pelvis changed from being tall and flat from front to back to being much shorter and more bowl-shaped, giving better leverage for the muscles that move the hip in upright walking. 

We know all of this information because of scientists studying fossils.If we never found fossils or didn't know what they meant we would still look at the world in an archaic thought.