A new monkey

Scientists have discovered a new species of African monkey whose facial features look, to me, strikingly human:

Scientists have identified a new species of African monkey whose coloring “is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” as one of them put it.

[…] The researchers found that the monkeys live in the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and have a range of about 6,500 square miles.

[… ] The lesula lives in remote regions that are largely unthreatened by human settlement. But John Hart warned, “Under the current trends of uncontrolled bush-meat hunting, it could become very endangered.”

I don’t see how anyone looking at this new monkey species can doubt that humans and apes are closely related.  Let’s hope we don’t lose it too soon…

More here.