Scientists say 47-million-year-old fossil is an early primate. May 19, 2009 — -- Scientists say a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany may be a key link to explaining the evolution of ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

For decades, scientists thought that the story of human evolution was fairly straightforward: We and our primate ancestors evolved in Africa over millions of years, then started crossing continents ...

The fossil is the best preserved ever found for a primate, said Jorn Hurum, of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum, one of the scientists introducing the specimen. It’s about 95 percent ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...

NEW YORK -- The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the ...

Longer thumbs mean bigger brains, scientists have found - revealing how human hands and minds evolved together. Researchers studied 94 different primate species, including fossils and living animals, ...

An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and 10 million years ago using a new Argon-Argon ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...