Paleontologists unearth 20-million-year-old ape skull in Uganda
“This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this age has been found ... it is a highly important fossil and it will certainly put Uganda on the map in terms of the scientific world,” Martin Pickford, a paleontologist from the College de France in Paris, told journalists in Kampala.
The fossilised skull belonged to a male Ugandapithecus Major, a remote cousin of today’s great apes which roamed the region about 20 million years ago.
