18-million-year-old creature discovered in Peru was no bigger than a hamster; helps fill a gap in the record of monkey evolution DURHAM, N.C. -- A team of Peruvian and American scientists have ...

Instead of eating fruits and insects as most monkey species do, colobine monkeys in Asia and Africa have a diet more like cows’. They don’t graze on grass, but they do ingest leaves. Two groups of ...

The teeth of a new fossil monkey, unearthed in the badlands of northwest Kenya, help fill a 6-million-year void in Old World monkey evolution, according to a new study. The teeth of a new fossil ...

March 12 (UPI) --Ancient fossilized teeth discovered in Kenya have helped paleontologists fill a gap in the record of Old World monkey evolution. The 22-million-year-old teeth belonged to a newly ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The teeth of a new fossil monkey, unearthed in the badlands of northwest Kenya, help fill a 6-million-year void in Old World monkey evolution, according to a study by U.S. and Kenyan ...

A fossil jaw of the newly discovered ancient Old World monkey named Alophia -- dated 22 million years Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA A new species of monkey that lived 22 million ...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. What Is a New World Monkey? -- What is a monkey? -- What is a platyrrhine? -- Platyrrhines and catarrhines -- Platyrrhine taxonomy - ...

Some 18 million years ago, a tiny monkey weighing little more than a baseball lived in the Amazon rainforest, the smallest fossil monkey known worldwide. The finding is based on a single tooth, twice ...