Long-lost 'Furby-like' Primate Discovered In Indonesia

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 20:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Anthropologists have discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years. The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby-like, or gremlin-looking, creatures about the size of a small mouse and weighing less than two ounces, have not been observed since they were last collected for a museum in 1921.

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