biped

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When anthropologists uncovered five of its fossilized footprints nearly 50 years ago, they couldn’t say whether this ancient biped was a hominin, a bear, or some other ape.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 1, 2021

The end-result is that the bot can not only hop and walk but skateboard and slackline, skills that are beyond the remit of this particular biped.

From The Verge • Oct. 12, 2021

“That’s the end of paradise,” he said, “And the beginning of biped world.”

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021

“We’re the last biped standing of what used to be a very, very diverse evolutionary tree,” Potts said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2019

“I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson