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| Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa Posted: 09 Apr 2020 11:15 AM PDT Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. The teeth are from a newly discovered species belonging to an extinct family of African primates known as parapithecids. Fossils discovered at the same site in Peru had earlier offered the first proof that South American monkeys evolved from African primates. |
| 40,000 year old evidence that Neanderthal's wove string Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:05 AM PDT Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals were no less technologically advanced than Homo sapiens. Researchers have discovered the first evidence of cord making, dating back more than 40,000 years, on a flint fragment from the prehistoric site of Abri du Maras in the south of France. |
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