[Rockhounds] 13 million-year-old Ape Skull Found in Kenya

[Paul]

Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what
human ancestors may have looked like By Amy B Wang,
Washington Post, August 9, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/09/discovery-of-13-million-year-old-ape-skull-shows-what-human-ancestors-may-have-looked-like/

New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape
ancestry, PhysOrg, August 9, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-million-year-old-infant-skull-ape-ancestry.html

The paper is:

Nengo, I., P. Tafforeau, C. C. Gilbert, and others, 2017,
New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds
light on ape evolution. Nature 548, 169–174 (10 August 2017) 
doi:10.1038/nature23456 Received 19 March 2017
Accepted 04 July 2017 Published online 09 August 2017
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7666/full/nature23456.html

  Yours,

Paul H.