Join Date: 21st June 2007 Posts: 1,911 Blessings: 108,426 Reps: 1,766,136 (power: 1,773) First fossil of homo found in Miocene Sahelanthropus tchadensis is a fossil ape , thought to have lived approximately 7 million years ago. It is sometimes claimed as the oldest known ancestor of Homo ( humans ) post-dating