animals, apes, fossils, gibbon

New Fossil Ape Has Been Discovered in India

A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, fills a significant void in the ape fossil record and provides important new evidence about when the ancestors of today’s gibbon migrated to ...

Troy Oakes

Christopher Gilbert at site in Ramnagar, India.