The discovery of a 13 million-year-old skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like. And one professor's persistence there would pay off in a monumental discovery: a rare, complete skull of a baby ape that could give scientists a glimpse at what our common ancestors looked like. According to the article, “younger” fossil finds — those 6- to 7-million-years-old — have shed light on humans' common ancestors with chimpanzees. Alesi provides an important link between apes' and humans' common ancestors and the earliest humans. Alesi, the skull of the extinct ape species Nyanzapithecus alesi.

Source: Washington Post August 10, 2017 01:29 UTC