Ankarapithecus meteai

Ankarapithecus meteai, known as the Ankara monkey, is the only species of the extinct ape genus Ankarapithecus, whose name joins Ankara with the Greek word for ape. Its remains were found near Ankara in central Turkey beginning in the 1950s, and it lived during the Late Miocene. It was similar to Sivapithecus and is estimated to have weighed about 27 kilograms. It was probably frugivorous, meaning that fruit made up most of its diet. The species is placed among the Miocene apes whose exact relationship to living orangutans, African apes and humans is still discussed in the research literature.