52-Million-Year-Old Ankle Fossil Suggests Our Ancestors Were High Flying Acrobats
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Biologists have long believed the common ancestor of all primates was a small, deliberate animal which used its grasping hands and feet to scamper along thin branches foraging for fruits and insects. They theorized that the leaping skills came later, after the proto-primate evolved into two distinct groups — wet-nosed primates like lemurs and dry-nosed primates that include monkeys, apes, and humans. However, the discovery of a perfectly preserved 52-million-year-old fossil seems to suggest that the first primate might have been leading an impressively acrobatic lifestyle, leaping from one tree to another.
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unknown_user144년 이상WOW! This info is COOL!!!👍
bsc약 5년Nice!
tulip_kitty약 5년So cool… 🤩- person약 6년looks tasty
- Hi6년 이상Cool
fortnite_god7년 이상THIS IS COOL- Person7년 이상Oh, and "dragoness lily" you are very smart!!!!!!!!
- lol7년 이상They couldn't possibly be able to derive such theories with just one ankle bone. Look closer and they might find that leaping wet-nosed primates today have specific leg bones too, and that this creature doesn't. An ankle doesn't exactly mean that all of the primate is the exact same as modern ones!
- I can't think7년 이상Wow
- dragoness_lily7년 이상How do they know the bone is that old? Did they use radioisotope dating? Plus how can they prove evolution is true? With this 1 bone?
techfashion0315약 1년Yas! 👏