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Primates Appeared Almost Immediately After Dinosaurs Went Extinct, New Research Suggests – Gizmodo Australia

A formation famous for producing T. rex fossils has now yielded the oldest evidence of primates in the fossil record, in what is being hailed a significant discovery….

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A formation famous for producing T. rex fossils has now yielded the oldest evidence of primates in the fossil record, in what is being hailed a significant discovery.
Jawbones and an assortment of teeth found in the Hells Creek formation of northeastern Montana are the oldest primate fossils ever discovered, according to new research published in Royal Society Open Science.
Dating back to around 65.9 million years ago, these animals lived a mere 105,000 to 139,000 years after the CretaceousPaleogene…

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