Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa

Science Daily ^ | 09 April 2020

[zeestephen]

Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. The teeth are from a newly discovered species belonging to an extinct family of African primates known as parapithecids. Fossils discovered at the same site in Peru had earlier offered the first proof that South American monkeys evolved from African primates.

[Don Corleone]

Uh, Pangea? Golden Gate Bridge?

Carnival Cruise, Disney?

[wally_bert]

They were just trying to be friendly.

[SunkenCiv]

Must be their ancestor clung to a piece of driftwood. [/sarc, referencing isolationist fake scientists of years gone by] Thanks zeestephen.

[mumblypeg]

Maybe the teeth were on somebody’s necklace. I hear Carnivale in Rio gets pretty wild.

[blam]

"Africa and South America used to be connected."

They started breaking apart about 120 million years ago...they're still separating at about the same rate as your fingernail grow.

[wardaddy]

Not at the time of primates I don’t think

I could be wrong

[wardaddy]

Drift speed is quite slow

Water to drink?

[wardaddy]

Public orgies is par for the course

[Deplorable American1776]

Maybe they built a bridge across the Atlantic.

Or it could have been connected...

[blam]

Luzia Woman

From Brazil, one of the oldest skeletons found in the Americas.

[BenLurkin]

Necklace theory makes sense!

[Pelham]

Gondwanaland? Maybe they were hikers....

[JimRed]

OR Africa broke away from South America later than we thought, after the ancestors of those monkeys had spread into both.

[dfwgator]

"....and did those teeth, in ancient time...."

[Bob Ireland]

***Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa***

African primates had a navy?
Actually, I find it amazing that primates could cross the Atlantic in prehistoric times but humans could not. Reverse evolution? {devolution}

[SunkenCiv]

I remember from ages ago that American primates (other than Bigfoot of course) are not true monkeys because of the number of their toes.

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Land Ho!!!!

[Bob Ireland]

***American primates (other than Bigfoot of course) are not true monkeys because of the number of their toes***

Curious... Do I have the correct number of toes? ;)

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Hints at an antediluvian advanced civilization with ships that brought the Monkeys as pets to the new world. Atlantis perhaps? Mu too? Maybe the Conan books were not fantasy after all???