20 million year old primate skull discovered in Uganda

This is our first , pretty blurry see at Ugandapithecus major , a hierarch that live in ancient Uganda 20 million years ago . It ’s one of the old primate fossils ever feel , and it could hold crucial entropy about our evolutionary past times .

The skull was discovered by a joint squad of French and Uganda palaeontologist in the land ’s Karamoja region , in the Northeast . Although it ’s still early days in terms of what we can get wind about this prelate , we do know that it was a tree - climbing herbivore , it was about as big as a chimpanzee but had a smaller wit , and it was about ten years old when it die all those eon ago .

Paleontologist Martin Pickford comment on his squad ’s discovery :

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“ This is the first clock time that the consummate skull of an copycat of this age has been found … it is a extremely important dodo and it will certainly put Uganda on the map in terms of the scientific existence . ”

To put the archpriest ’s years into some perspective , twenty million years ago long predates when our hominid ancestors became decided from chimp . Indeed , this primate appears to have lived right in the middle between the variance of ape from Old World monkeys 25 million age ago , and the split of keen apes ( man , chimpanzee , gorillas , orangutan ) from lesser emulator like gibbon about 15 million geezerhood ago .

While we have a well - develop fossil record break back a few million years , our knowledge of our more removed ancestors is more patchy , and so the discovery of Ugandepithecus major is a Brobdingnagian step to replete in some of those gaps . The paleontologists explained that the skull will spend a year being cleaned , analyzed , and reconstructed in France before channelise back to Uganda to be put on display .

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