A team of Ugandan and French palaeontologists have announced they have found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in northeastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history.
'This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this age has been found ... it is a highly important fossil and it will certainly put Uganda on the map in terms of the scientific world,' Martin Pickford, a palaeontologist from the College de France in Paris, told journalists in Kampala.
The fossilised skull belonged to a male Ugandapithecus Major, a remote cousin of today's great apes which roamed the region around 20 million years ago.
HERE'S A PHOTO OF THE UGANDAPITHECUS BONES...
HERE'S WHAT I THINK IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE WHEN IT'S PUT TOGETHER...
HERE'S A POSSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION...
OBAMAPITHECUS GIGANTUS PIECEOFCRAPICUS.
IT HAS A NICE RING TO IT.
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