A baby tooth under a centimetre long just put monkeys in northern Germany 300,000 years ago

The tooth is less than a centimetre long, and it belonged to a macaque about one year old. Researchers from the University of Tübingen's Senckenberg Centre and Leiden University identified the baby molar from the Schöningen site in Lower Saxony, publishing in Quaternary Environments and Humans. Led by Thijs van Kolfschoten, the team showed the youngster — a close relative of today's Barbary macaque — lived more than 300,000 years ago, some 1,800 kilometres north of the species' current northernmost range: the northernmost such find in continental Europe.