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The skeleton of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the National Museum of Natural History. Notice the bone pathology around the roots of the teeth in the upper jaw.
The skeleton of a young chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the American Museum of Natural History. If you look at the right first incisor carefully, you can see evidence of hypoplasia.
We've had reason now and again to mention the unusual ape photographed at Yaounde Zoo (in Cameroon) a few times. I finally got round to digging out and scanning the only photo of the animal I've seen: it was taken by Peter Jenkins and Liza Gadsby and first appeared in the November 1996 issue of the…
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I like that photo. The human skeleton looks fragile next to the others.
That is a very nice exhibit! I remember in 2004 while an intern there, I was working with a bunch of fragmentary vertebrate fossils from the Morrison Fm and sometimes will have no idea what or who had been the owner of a certain bone fragment until taking a stroll through that exhibit!!