Meet Junzi imperialis - an entirely new, but already extinct genus of gibbons. Discovered in a 2,400 year-old Imperial tomb in China and possibly the first ape species to have perished as a direct result of human activities. https://t.co/8VWg1YawzH #gibbons #extinction pic.twitter.com/QUu8Q9lAlj

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