Sentences with phrase «old fossil primate»

But news of the discovery — a 47 - million - year - old fossil primate — has leaked out already.

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This week I recorded and watched the History Channel documentary, «The Link,» which featured the recent scientific findings surrounding a miraculously intact primate fossil, estimated to be about 47 - million years old.

The skull was not just that of any old mammal, but of a much sought - after «missing link» in the primate fossil record.

Two 9.7 - million - year - old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

The rocks had to be 50 million years old, as that is the age of the primates they study, and the land had to be sloped by at least 5 degrees, so erosion was likely to have exposed fossils.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

Discovered in the sediments of a former lake in Djebel Chambi National Park, Tunisia, the approximately 50 million - year - old fossils belong to a small primate called Djebelemur (lemur of the Djebel).

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

Although other primate fossils are technically older, some by at least 500,000 years, the latest examples are the most primitive in terms of evolutionary development, and likely approximate our oldest primate ancestors.

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.

At a news conference attended by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the authors unveiled the nearly complete fossil of a nine - month - old female primate that had been found at the site of Messel in Germany.

Last May, for example, scientists reported the discovery of a 47 - million - year - old fossil of a primate called Darwinius.

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