Archive for January 20th, 2015

Purgatorius, an early primate

Earth’s earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles.  A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected […]