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Southernmost Fossils of Earliest Primate Relative Unearthed in Colorado


The newly-discovered minuscule fossils of Purgatorius -- a shrew-sized mammal considered the earliest known relative of all primates, including humans, and long thought to be confined to northern North America -- extend the known range of this mammal hundreds of km south.

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