Field Museum scientist describes first vertebrate to live in trees

In the Late Palaeozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land, Joerg Froebisch, PhD, a Field Museum palaeontologist has concluded. Elongated fingers, an opposable 'thumb,' and a grasping tail of Suminia getmanovi demonstrate that this small plant-eating synapsid is the earliest known tree-climbing vertebrate...

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