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Ankle Evidence Shows Earth's Earliest Primates Were Tree-Dwellers
Ankle Evidence Shows Earth's Earliest Primates Were Tree-Dwellers
Continue reading the Original Blog PostIf you went back to visit your earliest known primate ancestors, you'd find them in the trees. New fossil evidence shows Purgatorius, a small, squirrel-like insect and fruit-eating mammal, was a tree-dweller.
Paleontologists analyzed 65 million-year-old fossil ankle bones found in Northeastern Montana to clear up questions about the habitat of Purgatorius, which started kicking around shortly after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
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