Ancient primate sniffed out dinner in the trees
Monday, June 22, 2009 - 17:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the earliest primates lived in trees and relied more on smell than vision, a new study indicates. A tiny cousin of the earliest ancestors of humans lived 54 million years ago in what is now Wyoming, researchers report in Tuesday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
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