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.
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