Ancient Egyptian Mummified Cat Was Made Up Of Body Parts From Three Felines.Your Houseplants Aren't Actually Improving the Air Quality in Your Home.His strong ape-like arms were made for swinging from tree limbs but he also possessed human-like legs. The male animal's build, posture and locomotion are unique traits among primates. The fossils-two females, a juvenile and a male, who had the most complete set of limbs-were discovered in a clay pit in Bavaria between 20. 'Danuvius' is derived from the Celtic-Roman river god and 'guggenmosi' is to honor Sigulf Guggenmos, who discovered the site where they found the fossils.īöhme said when Danuvius was alive, the area was a hot, flat landscape with forests and rivers not far from the Alps.Ī new study found that the ape creature may have used an unusual locomotion never seen until now, which could reveal how the ancestors of humans may have evolved to walk on two feet. The species was named Danuvius guggenmosi by the paleontologists. 'The finds in southern Germany are a milestone in palaeoanthropology, because they raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans,' Professor Madelaine Böhme from the University of Tübingen told BBC News.īöhme also said this ape could be the best model we have to the 'missing link' between apes and humans. He lived during the Miocene about 11.62 million years ago. The fossil of the great ape was unearthed with complete limb bones. Fossils from a new species of ape have been discovered in Bavaria, and the discovery may shed light on how the ancestors of humans may have evolved to walk on two legs.

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