Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins

Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics. Their past adaptations reveal insights for conservation today.
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Paleocene-Eocene Evolution of Plesiadapiforms and Early Primates

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Leopards may have feasted on our earliest ancestors

It also shows that the trophic position of some of the earliest representatives of the genus Homo was not different from ...
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Fossils from giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago found in Texas

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...