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New Purgatorius fossils found

Adam Khor · 2012-10-20 00:24:58

Before this, the supossed oldest primate known was represented only by teeth. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49483224/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UIHuP2f4Vac This is probably what our early Paleocene ancestors looked like: As expected, it looks quite a bit like the tupaias formerly believed to be the most primitive…

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Before this, the supossed oldest primate known was represented only by teeth.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49483224/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UIHuP2f4Vac

This is probably what our early Paleocene ancestors looked like:

As expected, it looks quite a bit like the tupaias formerly believed to be the most primitive living primates:

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#2 25-10-2012 7:48pm

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Another 'ancestor' I see...

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#3 26-10-2012 12:03pm

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Were all our ancestors little cuddly, sweet looking things? I am sure we must have had at least one huge ravening monster laying waste to the area, somewhere in our past?

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#4 31-10-2012 12:59am

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Rubecula wrote: »

Were all our ancestors little cuddly, sweet looking things? I am sure we must have had at least one huge ravening monster laying waste to the area, somewhere in our past?

Actually I think we fill that niche in our particular family tree...

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#5 31-10-2012 10:45am

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methinks you are dead right on that one.

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