image: Panoramic view of the works in the Can Mata landfill (Els Hostalets de Pierola). The site where the remains of the new hominoid were found is shown on the left. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 30, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.M. Alba at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues was titled, 'Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution.' view more
Credit: Josep M. Robles / Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)