Fossil Skeleton (IMAGE)

Yale University

Fossil Skeleton

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A new analysis of this 62-million-year-old partial skeleton of Torrejonia, a small mammal from an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, had skeletal features adapted for living in trees.

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©2017 Stephen Chester. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

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