Propotto Leakeyi (VIDEO)

Duke University

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Fossilized fragments of primate jaws and teeth from Africa are changing what researchers thought they knew about when lemurs made it to Madagascar. Shown here is Propotto leakeyi, which lived roughly 20 million years ago in Kenya. Original housed in the National Museums of Kenya.

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3-D microCT scans and animation generated at Duke SMIF

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