LAHORE: The Palaeontology team of the Punjab University zoology department has discovered nine million years old hominoid fossils from Nagri village, in Chakwal district.

The research team headed by Prof Dr Muhammad Akhtar, along with faculty members, including Dr Muhammad Akbar Khan, Dr Abdul Majid Khan and PhD research students, discovered teeth of extinct hominoids along with other mammalian fossils while working in the vicinity of Nagri village.

Dr Akhtar says the fossilised remains of the hominoid group would help in identifying the type of hominoids living in the region in the pre-historic times.

The discovery, he adds, will also help in tracing the evolutionary history of the hominoid group in the Siwalik region as well as the South Asia.

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