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Oldest primate fossil found: how these bones could be “evolutionary”
SourceThe creature newly discovered and named Archicebus achilles has become the latest world’s oldest primate fossil and may be shedding light on our evolutionary roots soon. In a paper published in Nature, the international weekly journal of science, researchers have made it clear that this find may help fill gaps in the fossil record regarding the earliest phases of primate evolution. Here we’re seeing a tiny creature whom paper coauthor and Northern Illinois University researcher Daniel Gebo noted was “particularly interesting [due to] it’s completeness.”
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