California Peru Science Monkeys Amazon California Peru

Monkeys 'travelled 900 miles across sea to South America on a raft' millions of years ago

Reading now: 435
www.dailystar.co.uk

An incredible discovery in Peru suggests that South America was discovered by and colonised by monkeys before humans had even evolved.

Up to 34 million years ago a group of African primates crossed the Atlantic on rafts of vegetation and made landfall in the New World.

A handful of fossilised monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon revealed the extraordinary story of the monkeys’ 900-mile journey, told in new University of Southern California research published in the journal Science.

The teeth are from a newly discovered species, parapithecids, which are small extinct African primates dating back to the Oligocene period.

Read more on dailystar.co.uk
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA