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We are indebted to V. Simeonovski for artistic reconstruction of the gait of Danuvius. We thank Williams et al. for their Comment on our original Article, and invite them to study the original Danuvius sample at any time.
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Böhme, M., Spassov, N., DeSilva, J.M. et al. Reply to: Reevaluating bipedalism in Danuvius. Nature 586, E4–E5 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2737-3
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