Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of Asian primates stressed by ancient climate change

In a study to be published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe unearthing a "mother lode" of a half-dozen fossil primate species in southern China. One of the fossil species, which the research team has named Oligotarsius rarus, is “incredibly similar”  to the modern tarsier found today only in the Philippine and Indonesian islands  [Credit: Andrew Cunningham]These primates eked out an existence just after...

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