Spectacular: The skull discovered which is 13 million years old (Photo/Video)

They have knowledge of Turkana basin Napudet region as a potential site for fossil excavations since the Middle Age, which dates back about 13 million years.

One professor had made an age - old discovery where he found a rare skull that he believed is like a small monkey but is of great value to give abundant material to scientists to see what we have in common with our ancestors.

When Isaiah Nengo, an anthropology professor at De Anza University College in California, asked to gather a team for a three-week expedition to the Northern Kenya region in 2014, no one wanted to go, the Washington Post” reported.

There was nothing useful to find at that location”, Nengo had said at the time.

However, anthropologist had assembled a group of six, including the camp cook.

For two weeks, the team dug in but found nothing. On September 4, 2014, the team again worked for hours at the dig site and came out empty-handed.

Nego relates the moment the group had managed to find the old skull 13 million years.

We almost immediately knew it was the skull of a primat”, Nengo said.

We jumped into a dance, we were so happy”, he added.

What the team later dug up and found the full skull of a monkey. After more than two years of work, they have published this find in Nature magazine.

The discovery of the monkey coffee was named “Alesi” as it is translated for “previous”.

Alessa's teeth showed that the baby's skull belonged not only to any monkey but to an undiscovered species, now called Nyanzapithecus ales.

By that time, scientists had not been certain whether the species of Nyanzapithecus were monkeys or whether they originated in Asia or Africa.

Now, Nengo said that Nyanzapithecus ales was part of a group of Primat living more than 10 million years ago and that they originated in Africa.

Ales provides an important link between the common ancestors of monkeys and peoples and the earliest humans./Periscopi/