Afropithecus lived around 17 million years ago. Nearly complete Archicebus fossils were buried in shale in an ancient lake bed in China in 2002. Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate ...

Variability in resource availability is hypothesized to be a significant driver of primate adaptation and evolution, but most paleoclimate proxies cannot recover environmental seasonality on the scale ...

The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of our close primate relatives. Some ...

We also analysed two fossil molars from an unusual large-bodied ape called Afropithecus turkanensis that lived in Kenya 17 million years ago. Diverse groups of apes inhabited Africa during this period ...

A global team of scientists has shown how microsampling oxygen isotopes in fossilised teeth can offer greater insights into the role seasonal climate and behaviour played in human and primate ...

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. A global team of scientists has shown how microsampling oxygen isotopes in fossilised teeth can offer greater ...

Some scientists suggest early humans and their ancestors also evolved due to rapid changes in their environment, but the physical evidence to test this idea has been elusive - until now. After more ...