'Original' great ape discovered

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By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_enl_1100541634/html/1.stm
Could this be the last common ancestor of humans and great apes?

Scientists have unearthed remains of a primate that could have been ancestral not only to humans but to all great apes, including chimps and gorillas.

The partial skeleton of this 13-million-year-old "missing link" was found by palaeontologists working at a dig site near Barcelona in Spain.

Details of the sensational discovery appear in Science magazine.

The new specimen was probably male, a fruit-eater and was slightly smaller than a chimpanzee, researchers say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4014351.stm

Maybe it's the Godfather of

General Franco...