<i>Pliobates cataloniae</i> (IMAGE)

George Washington University

<i>Pliobates cataloniae</i>

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A team of researchers from the George Washington University and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont identified a new genus and species of small ape that existed before the evolutionary split of humans/great apes (hominids) and gibbons (the 'lesser apes' or hylobatids).

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Marta Palmero / Institut Catal&agrave; de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

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