Mubashir Naik
Archaeologists have found a fossils of a new species of apes. Ape fossils that are about 13 million years old have been found in Jammu Kashmir’s Udhampur district.
The discovery was made Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College and it fills a major void in the ape fossil record and provides important new evidence about when the ancestors of today’s gibbon migrated to Asia from Africa.
The Royal Society of B’s Journal has said that the fossil has been found in the Udhampur area of Jammu Kashmir. According to the Royal Society B’s journal, scientists had recently received information about the discovery of some old artifacts in the Ramnagar area of Udhampur district after which a team of archaeologists reached Jammu Kashmir following the news.
Various researchers in archeology at the University of Arizona in the United States and researchers in the Department of Archeology at the University of the Punjab and other places reached the Ramangar area in Udhamour and since the last year they have been searching in different areas of Ramnagar.
At the beginning of the year, Researchers spotted a shiny object in the rubbish there which were later found to be teeth. As soon the teeth were found, the researchers realized that the tooth was not of any ordinary animal, It was collected and taken away to the laboratory, an official posted in Udhampur told The Kashmiriyat.
“They said that the tooth is a new species of ape which is about 13 million years old. It is believed that the animal came to Asia from far away Africa at that time. After initial experiments, various researchers thought it could be a monkey species. It may even be an ancestor of Monkey, but later they discovered that the Specie has never been found earlier,” the administrative official said.
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Meanwhile Archaeologists are excited about this new achievement. This is the first time they have found fossils of such an old species of ape.
The fossil, a complete lower molar, belongs to a previously unknown species (Kapi ramnagarensis) and represents the first new fossil ape species.
The fossil might be a great discovery to know the story of billions of years ago.