National Geographic

A European Ancestor to African Great Apes and Humans?

While the spitilight of the day might rest on  the newly announced Miocene ape,
Anoiapithecus brevirostris, another important early great ape is sitting in the shadows.
It is rudapithecus hungaricus, which, aalong with Dryopithecus and Anoipithecus, is
considered by some to be related  to living great apes.Rudapithecus may be the
closest we have yet come to finding the ancestor of African great apes and humans.

All of these fossil apes were found in Europe