55.8 million-year-old primate fossil found, no wonder it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud |
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55.8 million-year-old primate fossil found, no wonder it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud |
 Mar 7 2008, 06:48 PM
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"It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi. It is even harder to imagine that tiny primates of this primitive kind were able to migrate to this continent all the way from their Asian homeland."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/science/...amp;oref=slogin http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0710180105v1 -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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