Salvador Moyà-Solà

TL;DR: The new skeleton reveals that early great apes retained primitive monkeylike characters associated with a derived body structure that permits upright postures of the trunk, and suggests that Pierolapithecus is probably close to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans.

TL;DR: The discovery of an extraordinary partial skeleton of Dryopithecus laietanus from Can Llobateres (Spain) provides evidence that orthograde postures and locomotion appeared at least 9.5 million years ago, strengthening previous hypotheses linking both Miocene forms with Pongo.

TL;DR: The results show that identifiable Eurasian kenyapithecins (Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus) are much younger than previously thought, which casts serious doubts on the attribution of the hominoid tooth from Engelswies, and is consistent with an alternative scenario, according to which the Eurasian pongines and African hominines might have independently evolved in their respective continents from similar kenyAPithecin ancestors.

TL;DR: Comparative morphological and functional analyses of the skeletal remains of Oreopithecus bambolii, a hominoid from the Miocene Mediterranean island of Tuscany-Sardinia (Italy), provides evidence that bipedal activities made up a significant part of the positional behavior of this primate.

TL;DR: The study of the fossil rupicaprine bovid Myotragus from the Mediterranean island Majorca (Spain) provides evidence that this animal underwent significant changes in the relative size of brain and sense organs after geographic isolation at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.