• Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution (AP)

    Dino News 11.07.2009

    This image, provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is an artist's conception what they call a life reconstruction of Ganlea megacanina by Mark A. Klingler. Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday,July 1. 2009. Fossils - which the scientists dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History/Mark A. Klingler)AP – Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.


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