If we can understand these relationships, we can use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of our early hominin ancestors and other extinct primates. As any five-year-old child familiar with ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

2009; Figure 2). However, these are very rare cases. Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

Two tiny primates at London Zoo are recovering after ... causing swelling, and two of Nuka's teeth – a canine and incisor – needed extracting. After they removed the problematic teeth the ...

Although teeth look very different from hair ... our brains are amazingly similar to those of other primates. For example, large areas of the brain of all primates are devoted to processing ...

In 2015, scientists announced the recovery of primate teeth from animals that lived 36 million years ago in the Peruvian Amazon basin believed to have been the ancestors of New World monkeys. With no ...

Its molar teeth had crests that are used to break down ... to thrive in the same trees likely shared with other early primate relatives.” Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals ...

Endangered pygmy slow loris Ernest and black-capped squirrel monkey Nuka are now recovering, the zoo says Two tiny primates at London ... and two of Nuka's teeth – a canine and incisor ...