Object Details Discipline Anthropology Region European Region Description This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and ...

A Look at the Teeth. Oreopithecus lived in Miocene-period marshes, which are now coal areas around Grosseto, in central Italy. His first fossil bones were found in 1872, have always been labeled ...

ANTHROPOLOGY Correction for “Insights into the lower torso in late Miocene hominoid Oreopithecus bambolii,” by Ashley S. Hammond, Lorenzo Rook, Alisha D. Anaya, Elisabetta Cioppi, Loïc Costeur, ...

The living great apes, humans, and their fossil relatives (Hominidae) are among the most intensively studied mammalian groups, but many aspects of their shared evolutionary history remain poorly ...

Fossils from this time led to the identification of a particularly intriguing species called Oreopithecus bambolii (Moyà-Solà et al., 2004; Moyà-Solà et al., 2009).

The morphology of the inner ear distinguishes major anthropoid clades and enables the proposal of various shared-derived features for apes as a whole, lesser apes, and great apes and humans.

ANTHROPOLOGY Correction for “Insights into the lower torso in late Miocene hominoid Oreopithecus bambolii,” by Ashley S. Hammond, Lorenzo Rook, Alisha D. Anaya ...

An international team of scientists have concluded that Oreopithecus bambolii, commonly known as the “enigmatic hominoid,” once native to Sardinia and Tuscany and whose means of locomotion ...

An international team of researchers has concluded that the so-called "enigmatic hominoid" did not walk upright and was also not a tree climber. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...