 Further, according to recent information, what might be a femur of a hominid was also discovered near the cranium—but which has not been published nor accounted for.In 2018, Roberto Macchiarelli, anthropologist at the University of Poitiers and the Museum of Natural History of Paris, published his suspicion that Michel Brunet and his laboratory in Poitiers may have blocked information about a femur which may be "Sahelanthropus" found close to the skull.The alleged motive for this suppression of information would be that the morphology of the femur might cast doubt on the bipedalism of Toumaï.