A 20 million year old ape skull has been discovered in Uganda by a team of French and Ugandan scientists.

The discovery at a fossil site near Karamoja was made by the team headed by Prof. Brigitte Senut of the Paris-based National Museum of Natural History and Dr Martin Pickford of the Collège de France in Paris.

The team said their discovery at Napak XV is a ‘sub-complete’ Hominidae skull and it is believed to be aged between 19 and 20 million years.

The term Hominidaerefers to a scienticic family classification which included chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans which are closely related to humans.