Showing posts with label earliest primate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earliest primate. Show all posts

June 5, 2013

Tiny Chinese fossil is earliest primate

"From this almost complete skeleton, we can conclude that our ancestors were a kind of very small animal. It was very active and agile; and it lived in the trees and fed on insects," he told BBC News.

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Many people may be taken aback by the animal's small size - a body just 71mm in length and an estimated weight of about 20-30g. But Archicebus gives us a good idea of what the very first primates on Earth would have looked like. 
Go read the whole thing over at BBC News.