A closer look at “300,000-Year-Old Baby Tooth Reveals Macaques in Northern Germany”, exactly as the source publishes it. A fossilized baby tooth from the Schöningen archaeological site in Lower Saxony, Germany, has provided the first evidence that macaques lived in northern Europe more than 300,000 years ago. Researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Leiden University in the Netherlands identified the tooth as belonging to a young macaque, likely a Barbary macaque. The discovery, published in Quaternary Environments and Humans, pushes the known range of these primates significantly northward during the Middle Pleistocene.
Schöningen is already famous for its wooden hunting spears and other hominin artifacts, but the presence of macaques adds a new dimension to the region's ancient ecosystem. The tooth suggests that macaques were part of the local fauna alongside early humans, horses, and elephants, indicating a warmer climate or adaptable behavior. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.