Archaeologists Have Found Something Truly Disturbing in an Ancient Chinese Tomb

Whoa.


BEN GUARINO, THE WASHINGTON POST
22 JUN 2018

A long-forgotten species of ape has been found buried in a 2,300-year-old tomb. It's a type of gibbon, which scientists named Junzi imperialis.

Gibbons are the smallest apes, chatty and as lanky-limbed as Kermit the Frog. They're also more closely related to humans than they are to any monkey.

And humans, the scientists say, are the likely agents of these gibbons' extinction.

Archaeologists excavated the burial site, in the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang'an, now part of modern Xi'an, in 2004.

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