There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

These features distinguish Anadoluvius from other Miocene apes like Ankarapithecus, which lacks hominine characteristics, and align it more closely with Ouranopithecus and Graecopithecus ...

If Böhme’s group is correct, Hammerschmiede represents the first locale outside Africa to have hosted two Miocene great ape species at the same time. The Miocene Epoch extended from about 23 ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

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but also fossil apes that lived in the Miocene period some 23 to 5.3 million years ago. Their analysis placed the tree-climbing, upright-walking specimen into an evolutionary bracket between the ...