The Sahelanthropus skull (Toumaļ), found in Chad's Djurab desert by a French team led by paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet, is shown below from six different directions. A: frontal view, B: posterior view, C: right lateral view, D: left lateral view, E: superior view, F: inferior view. The black and white graduations on the scale bars indicate one centimeter. This skull was once touted as that of a human ancestor, but is now generally considered to be that of a are now deemed to represent the mortal remains of a Miocene ape.
