An early relative of humans chewed on bark and leaves, according to fossil evidence.
Analysis of food trapped in the teeth of the
two-million-year-old "southern ape" suggests it existed on a unique diet
of forest fruits and other woodland plants.
The study, in Nature, gives an insight into the evolution of what could have been a direct human ancestor.
Other early African contemporaries had a diet suggesting a grassland habitat.
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