On the ground floor of the Ministry of Mines and Energy's head office in Windhoek is the National Earth Science Museum, which has displays on Namibia's fossil, mineral and mining history.With the oldest desert in the world, it's no surprise that Namibia has countless fossils hidden beneath the surface.Archaeologists have dug up fossils of animals, plant life and human ancestors to try and piece together histories of a time before time.The first exhibit displays more than 20 million years of human evolution, with the now extinct ape Otavipithecus namibiensis, which at the time of its discovery was the only non-hominin ape found in southern Africa.

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