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Skeleton Ida illuminates early primate evolution
A nearly complete 47 million-year-old skeleton nicknamed Ida was shown in New York to shed light on early primate evolution. The juvenile female specimen, about the size of a domestic cat, died at 9 or 10 months and offers a window into what an ancestor of monkeys and humans may have looked like.
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New York
Germany
Jorn Hurum
University of Oslo Natural History Museum
Ida
Hurum
Museum of Natural History
Michael Bloomberg
Histore Satych Is
A&e
PLOS
Public Library of Science