Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

These climatic changes were apparently catastrophic for primates, which were virtually extinct in North America by the Late Eocene (Williams & Kirk, 2008). Tropical South India, Southeast Asia ...

And despite being from the middle Eocene, the foothills, sitting about 1,980 meters in elevation, revealed anaptomorphine primates that were not only surviving, but diversifying and ...

the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Alongside our tiny horse, the oldest-known ancestor of modern primates emerged during this time period. About the size of a tarsier, Teilhardina could fit ...

Primates 57:449–453 DOI 10.1007/s10329-016-0571-x Stucky, R.K. and Covert H.H. 2014 A new genus and species of early Eocene (Ypresian) Artiodactyla (Mammalia), Gagadon minimonstrum, from Bitter Creek, ...

Right at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary a dramatic shift in the ... more open land that had favored the runners, the first true primates showed up. Humans, along with every other primate living ...

A reconstruction of the Eocene of Turkey, where the small marsupial ... (primitive ungulates with a deer/dog look), a group of primates called omomyids, bats, tortoises and crocodiles.

Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. On Ellesmere Island in Canada's Arctic, winter temperatures often drop below –40 C. 52 million ...

The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ... Which leads us onto… The PETM is the period during which primates and social monkeys evolved. It’s when human evolution ...