Fossil skeleton confirms earliest primates were tree dwellers

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 18:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Earth's earliest primates dwelled in treetops, not on the ground, according to an analysis of a 62-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico—the oldest-known primate skeleton.

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