Southernmost Fossils of Earliest Primate Relative Unearthed in Colorado

Mar 3, 2026 - 18:00
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Southernmost Fossils of Earliest Primate Relative Unearthed in Colorado
Shortly after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the earliest known primates, such as Purgatorius mckeeveri shown in the foreground, quickly set themselves apart from their competition -- like the archaic ungulate mammal on the forest floor -- by specializing in an omnivorous diet including fruit found up in the trees. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

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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