microrobert
02-05-2015, 11:58 AM
Is this South America's first monkey? Fossils found in Amazon may be the first primates to cross the Atlantic from Africa
New fossils of an ancient primate found in the Amazon may be the first monkey to have traveled from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to South America.
The fossils suggest that monkeys first arrived in South America nearly 10 million years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists believe first primates traveled to South America, which was once an isolated island before it joined to North America three million years ago, from Africa on natural rafts that drifted across the Atlantic ocean.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2939967/Is-South-America-s-monkey-Fossils-Amazon-primates-cross-Atlantic-Africa.html#ixzz3QsJ11u00
New fossils of an ancient primate found in the Amazon may be the first monkey to have traveled from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to South America.
The fossils suggest that monkeys first arrived in South America nearly 10 million years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists believe first primates traveled to South America, which was once an isolated island before it joined to North America three million years ago, from Africa on natural rafts that drifted across the Atlantic ocean.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2939967/Is-South-America-s-monkey-Fossils-Amazon-primates-cross-Atlantic-Africa.html#ixzz3QsJ11u00