Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 18:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates.
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