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Researchers In Germany Discovered Two Fossilized Teeth Belonging To A New Primate Species That Was About The Size Of A Dog And Lived In Warm Forests 11.6 Million Years Ago
It was roughly the size of a small dog ... that the ape could weigh up to 68 pounds and was much larger than the creature they discovered in 2011. After re-examining the teeth and kneecap ...
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Do These Fossilized Teeth Belong to the World’s Smallest Great Ape?
A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus ... size of a small dog. Scientists have uncovered the fossils of two teeth and a kneecap ...
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Overview of Hominin Evolution
The HC-LCA would have had an ape-sized brain and body, with relatively long arms and fingers and a grasping foot that allowed it to forage in the trees. The canine teeth were probably large and ...