13-million-year-old Infant Ape Skull Found in Kenya

[Oxytropidoceras]

Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what

human ancestors may have looked like By Amy B Wang,

Washington Post, August 9, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/09/discovery-of-13-million-year-old-ape-skull-shows-what-human-ancestors-may-have-looked-like/

 

New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape

ancestry, PhysOrg, August 9, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-million-year-old-infant-skull-ape-ancestry.html

 

The paper is:

 

Nengo, I., P. Tafforeau, C. C. Gilbert, and others, 2017,

New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds

light on ape evolution. Nature 548, 169–174 (10 August 2017) doi:10.1038/nature23456 Received 19 March 2017

Accepted 04 July 2017 Published online 09 August 2017

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7666/full/nature23456.html

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.