Ancient Explorers

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A team of American and Chinese researchers have uncovered a rare fossil – the cranium of a young ape from a site in Yunnan province, China that dates back to the Miocene period, some 23 to five million years ago.

Even more noteworthy is that the site, Shuitangba, is just over six million years old, dating near to the end of the Miocene, when apes had become extinct in most of Eurasia.


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