Infant ape fossil skull illuminates humankind's remote past

Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 02:17 in Paleontology & Archaeology

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lemon-sized fossil skull of an infant ape nicknamed Alesi that inhabited a Kenyan forest about 13 million years ago is offering a peek at what the long-ago common ancestor of people and all modern apes may have looked like.

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