The skeleton has a mixture of features of anthropoids and tarsiers Achilles’ heel was his weak spot in the Greek myth, but the heel of a newly discovered primate provides a strong connection between ...
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the world's oldest-known fossil primate skeleton representing a previously unknown genus and species named Archicebus achilles. In ...
An artist's impression of what the newly discovered primate, Archicebus achilles, might have looked like. Mat Severson, Northern Illinois University The oldest primate ever discovered would fit in the ...
Today’s smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur, can reach up to about 5 inches in height—and that’s even on the larger side. But the primate skeleton that researchers just uncovered, the oldest ever ...
The fossil record of tarsier evolution / Elwyn L. Simons -- The evolution of the tarsiid niche / Nina G. Jablonski -- How close are the similarities between Tarsius and other primates? / Jeffrey H.