Fossil ankles indicate Earth's earliest primates lived in trees
Monday, January 19, 2015 - 17:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Earth's earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles. A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected from sites in northeastern Montana.