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Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
Science Daily ^ | 09 April 2020

Posted on 04/11/2020 7:13:42 AM PDT by zeestephen

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To: SunkenCiv

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???


41 posted on 04/11/2020 11:28:15 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: SunkenCiv

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???


42 posted on 04/11/2020 11:28:15 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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These researchers had better be denture they know what they're talking about!

43 posted on 04/11/2020 11:32:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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44 posted on 04/11/2020 11:34:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
I think Lancelot Link used boats... :^)

45 posted on 04/11/2020 11:47:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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The monkeys that sailed across the Atlantic to South America
Monkeys suddenly appeared in South America about 40 million years ago. Unlikely though it may seem, they probably sailed there from Africa
By Josh Gabbatiss
26 January 2016
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sailed-across-the-atlantic-to-south-america


46 posted on 04/11/2020 12:28:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: zeestephen

They’re just making it up now.


47 posted on 04/11/2020 2:37:32 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: SunkenCiv

Lol!!


48 posted on 04/11/2020 2:41:30 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: zeestephen
Some people claim that Olmec statues in Mexico have African features, meaning that prehistoric Africans made it to the New World. If so, they could have brought monkeys with them. But I think these monkey teeth in Peru are much older than that, plus it would have been pretty hard for any Old World monkeys in Mexico to make it to Peru...the intervening jungles were full of New World monkeys.

Anyway, Africans did not make it to Mexico--if they did there would be more evidence than someone's interpretation of the lips on Olmec statues.

49 posted on 04/11/2020 5:34:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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... it would have been pretty hard for any Old World monkeys in Mexico to make it to Peru...the intervening jungles were full of New World monkeys.
There weren't any at the time -- these fossils antedate New World primates. The origin of this, uh, problem, comes from this piece of supposition (taken from the BBC article linked above):
...molecular clock estimates now date the last common ancestor for New and Old World monkeys to a time about 100 million years after the continents had split apart.

50 posted on 04/11/2020 7:33:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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