In late March, Italian researcher Leonardo Sorbelli defended his PhD thesis conducted over the past few years at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont. The PhD candidate was awarded with the highest score for his research on suids and bovids from several early and middle Pleistocene sites in Catalonia and Italy.

A new article published in Journal of Human Evolution led by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili describes six 2,5 million-years-old fossil macaque teeth from the site of Guefaït (northeast of Morocco). Tooth morphology ressembles that of the current African subspecies, which provides new clues about the dispersal of this species in the past. The research also highlights the absence of geladas in Guefaït.