A 13 million-year-old fossil discovered by an international team of researchers in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. The fossil found is the earliest known ancestor of the modern day gibbon.
The finding has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal and fills a major gap in the ape fossil record and provides substantial evidence about when the gibbons migrated to Asia from Africa.The fossil was found when a team of researchers from Arizona State University in US and and Panjab University in Chandigarh were climbing a small hill in Jammu and Kashmir when they spotted something shiny in a small pile of dirt on the ground.
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