A team of Ugandan and French Paleoanthropologists have uncovered the remains of a 20 million year old Hominid Fossil in Uganda. The find is especially important as the skull is nearly complete – a rarity in fossilized remains.
“This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this age has been found. It is a highly important fossil,” Martin Pickford, a paleontologist from the College de France in Paris, told a news conference.
The skull was identified as belonging to a Ugandapithecus Major, an early relative to the great apes that inhabited the region. The early ape had a skull roughly the size of a chimpanzee, a highly intelligent primate. To read more about the find, read one of the articles at Discovery News, MSNBC, Daily Mail, or BBC News.
This discovery is too cool. I am going to have to ask my friend Bernard Wood about the details of the discovery. Bernard worked with the Leakey family.
He is probably fare better versed on the finding than I. Very cool discovery and amazing that it is so complete.
I will get back to you with what I learn.
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Check out my archaeological blog post of the day. It refers to a new thesis Neanderthals.
http://amirazara.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/new-manners-of-thinking/
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