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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."

1 posted on 04/11/2020 7:13:42 AM PDT by zeestephen
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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)
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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)
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Tough sale, I mean sail.


4 posted on 04/11/2020 7:16:37 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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"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.)
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6 posted on 04/11/2020 7:22:48 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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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.)
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Paleontology ping.

Discovery of four teeth from a second distinct African monkey species in Peru.


9 posted on 04/11/2020 7:33:13 AM PDT by zeestephen
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"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?)
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"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.

11 posted on 04/11/2020 7:37:48 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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Africa and South America used to be connected.


13 posted on 04/11/2020 7:45:48 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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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 (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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20 posted on 04/11/2020 8:30:43 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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Maybe the teeth were on somebody’s necklace. I hear Carnivale in Rio gets pretty wild.


24 posted on 04/11/2020 9:16:03 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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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)
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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 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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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
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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.)
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"....and did those teeth, in ancient time...."
34 posted on 04/11/2020 10:02:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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***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)
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Land Ho!!!!


38 posted on 04/11/2020 11:06:10 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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