Science Daily:
"The monkeys are believed to have made the more than 900-mile trip on floating rafts of vegetation that broke off from coastlines, possibly during a storm.
"We're suggesting that this group might have made it over to South America right around what we call the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, a time period between two geological epochs, when the Antarctic ice sheet started to build up and the sea level fell," said Seiffert. "That might have played a role in making it a bit easier for these primates to actually get across the Atlantic Ocean."
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To: zeestephen
I have all I can do to swim across Crystal Lake.
2 posted on
04/11/2020 7:15:59 AM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: zeestephen
There’s a good joke in there somewhere but i can’t think of it.
3 posted on
04/11/2020 7:15:59 AM PDT by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
To: zeestephen
To: zeestephen
"The monkeys are believed to have made the more than 900-mile trip on floating rafts of vegetation that broke off from coastlines..."Or, maybe...
5 posted on
04/11/2020 7:22:36 AM PDT by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: zeestephen
6 posted on
04/11/2020 7:22:48 AM PDT by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: zeestephen
7 posted on
04/11/2020 7:28:56 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Paleontology ping.
Discovery of four teeth from a second distinct African monkey species in Peru.
To: zeestephen
"The monkeys are believed to have made the more than 900-mile trip on floating rafts
Nope, they tried to swim....that's why they're now extinct.
10 posted on
04/11/2020 7:33:23 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(How did I survive the Swine flu and the killer flu of 2017-18 without govt. help?)
To: zeestephen
"The monkeys are believed to have made the more than 900-mile trip on floating rafts of vegetation that broke off from coastlines, possibly during a storm. Oh please. And what did they use for food on this 900 mile journey? Oh, that's right. They used their gas-powered boat motors constructed from coconut hulls.
To: zeestephen
Africa and South America used to be connected.
13 posted on
04/11/2020 7:45:48 AM PDT by
piasa
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To: zeestephen
Maybe they came across with gourds, because gourds are thought to have floated over to the New World from Africa, too.
14 posted on
04/11/2020 7:51:11 AM PDT by
piasa
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To: zeestephen
To: zeestephen
Maybe the teeth were on somebody’s necklace. I hear Carnivale in Rio gets pretty wild.
To: zeestephen
Drift speed is quite slow
Water to drink?
27 posted on
04/11/2020 9:25:09 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
To: zeestephen
Maybe they built a bridge across the Atlantic.
Or it could have been connected...
29 posted on
04/11/2020 9:26:26 AM PDT by
Deplorable American1776
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To: zeestephen
Luzia Woman
From Brazil, one of the oldest skeletons found in the Americas.
30 posted on
04/11/2020 9:28:16 AM PDT by
blam
To: zeestephen
OR Africa broke away from South America later than we thought, after the ancestors of those monkeys had spread into both.
33 posted on
04/11/2020 9:59:41 AM PDT by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: zeestephen
"....and did those teeth, in ancient time...."
34 posted on
04/11/2020 10:02:33 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv
***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}
35 posted on
04/11/2020 10:45:37 AM PDT by
Bob Ireland
(The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
To: zeestephen
Land Ho!!!!
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