Posted on 03/04/2008 11:10:22 AM PST by blam
First American primate scurried in through Alaska
22:00 03 March 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Andy Coghlan
Fossil teeth of the mouse-sized monkey were found in Mississippi and dated to around 55 million years ago (Illustration: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH)
The primate's teeth indicate that it lived on a diet of fruit and berries (Image: Joe Suhan/CMU and Mark A Klingler/CMNH)
It was only the size of a mouse, but it has the distinction of being the first primate to scurry into the New World.
Fossilised teeth of the monkey Teilhardina magnoliana have been found in rocks in Mississippi. They were dated as younger than its Asian relatives, but more ancient than those already found in Europe and North America.
The monkey must have colonised the Americas via Alaska, crossing from Asia via the Bering land bridge 55 million years ago, says Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
Analysis of the teeth suggests America's first primate enjoyed a diet of fruit and insects.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.071080105)
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He was immediately offered free housing, health care and college tuition by a welcoming committee of Democratic cavemen.
The article offers nothing to reason .. scurrying.
Could'a been one of those females fleeing an iminent honor killing ... that would explain the 'scurrying'.
Why does everyone - well, most everyone - still cling to the theory that anything in the Americas had to have come over the loop and DOWN into North America?
There's still that old belief that hangs on due to the "Old Worlds" people not knowing that the "New World" existed - which it did all those millions of years that the Old one die = that everything in the New World had to have gotten here from the Old.
Who's to say that some things may well have gone up and over the Straight FROM the "New" world to the old?
Take, for example, the camel.
The camel originated in North America and once lived in the Yukon and Alaska - long before the 'ice bridge' =
But scientists and establishment archaeologists still start with the premise that everything had to have come FROM the Old World - which isn't any older than the New World...even against the evidence that not only was Clovis man here long before the Bering Straight bridge - but so were others, as far south as South America - at least a millennia before the Bering Straight bridge -
But, as we have witnessed, once a scientist - particularly archaeologists - have a well entrenched theory, they're like a dog with a bone - devil take the evidence staring them in the face.
“An exasperated Barack Obama scurried away . . .”
i'm not sure enjoyed is the most apporpriate word, perhaps "had" is better.
Why wasn’t it found in California?
Clearly they settled first in California.
“How do you know it was a he?”
Really—my first guess was that this was about Helen Thomas.
Or populated S. America when it was connected to Africa. Rode over on the continent.
Unless the climate in N. Siberia and Alaska was very different than now, I can’t see some of these animals surviving the winters during a migration across the ‘land bridge’.
And evolved into the local San Francisco hippie, where the diet is occassionally suplemented by dumpster diving and organic weeds.
You owe me a keyboard.
That's a great phrase! And, I imagine, scientifically valid
“Unless the climate in N. Siberia and Alaska was very different than now”
It was very different.
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/1999/090299/Arctic.html
That was 120 million years ago.
yeah - and the same 'building blocks' would've 'rode over' as stayed put, would they not?
he/she said to us: "That was 120 million years ago.
And I answered: "yeah - and the same 'building blocks' would've 'rode over' as stayed put, would they not?"
No. When something seperates and goes in two different directions, the two halves start mutating in different directions and eventually become two different 'things.'
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