52-Million-Year-Old Ankle Fossil Suggests Our Ancestors Were High Flying Acrobats

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52-million-year-old ankle bone suggest our ancestors were leapers (Image Credit: Doug Boyer)

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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  • thebiggestnoob약 8년
    wow this is soo cool but i dont think that our ancestors were acrobats
    • hi._.약 8년
      guys, they were not really acrobats... it was an expression
      • Kate약 8년
        I could have a acrobat ancestor.........sooooooo cool
        • try약 8년
          what is going on here?no really what is going on here
          • thane약 8년
            THAT WAS SO COOL
            • Bobby Doggman약 8년
              This is awesome i can't believe it. I might have acrobat in me
              • nb240594
                nb240594약 8년
                i had no idea that our ancestors were acrobats i didn't know that ankle bones look like that i didn't know that our ancestors were split into 2 primate groups
                • Noah Blair약 8년
                  interesting facts: i had no idea that our ancestors were high flying acrobats i had no idea ankle bones could look like that and i had no idea that our ancestors were split into 2 different primate groups
                  • luke약 8년
                    fun to learn
                    • matthew약 8년
                      check this it awesome ankle bone