Paleontologists discover 55 million-year-old monkey fossil in China
AFP, January, 2004
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BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese archaeologists have discovered a 55 million-year-old fossil that they believe provides important information about the evolution of monkeys and humans, state media reported.
Such fossils have been found before in Europe and North America but never in China, the Xinhua news agency said.
Four scientists working at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made the discovery and will publish their findings in the magazine "Nature".
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Professor Li Chuankui said the fossil, which was found in central Hunan ...
