Ancient species form 'snapshot' of primates stressed by climate change
Lawrence KS (SPX) May 11, 2016 -
In a study to be published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe unearthing a "mother lode" of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China. These primates eked out an existence just after the Eocene-Oligocene transition, some 34 million years ago. It was a time when drastic cooling made much of Asia inhospitable to primates, slashing their populations and rendering dis ...
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