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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

First primate in North America traced

Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has studied fossils over 55 million years old to identify what appears to be the oldest primate known from the New World. Less than 8 cm in length, Teilhardina magnoliana apparently crossed a land bridge from what is now Asia to plant its tiny feet in North America.

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