The Max Planck Institute For evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig supports his fossil search survey National Museum of Natural History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNH-BAS). Excavations are due to begin in September 2025, with the famous Paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto, Professor David Bigan, participating in the Museum team for the third consecutive year, the NMNH-Bas team announced.

Since the beginning of August 2025, the NMNH-Bas has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Max Planck Institute, under which the German Foundation will fund the museum’s excavations over the next three years. The project focuses on searching for a miracle of the late Miokainos in Bulgaria and Northern Macedonia, in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History in Skopje.

Excavations at Azmaka area near City CityUnder Professor Nikolai Spassov, they have attracted international interest by discovering a femoral bone of humanoid aged 7.2 million years. This is the second such discovery of the NMNH-Bas group, after the 2012 discovery of a humanoid tooth at the same location.

The femoral bone is believed to belong to Grekopitheus, a humanoid of the late meio that was first described by a lower jaw discovered near Athens during World War II. According to scientists, the finding is important because it provides information on the movement of this latest known European pre -human humanoid.

Integrated studies of the femoral bone have already provided extremely interesting results related to the early stages of human evolution, NMNH-Bas also said.