If we can understand these relationships, we can use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of our early hominin ancestors and other extinct primates. As any five-year-old child familiar with ...

Two tiny primates at London Zoo are recovering after ... causing swelling, and two of Nuka's teeth – a canine and incisor – needed extracting. After they removed the problematic teeth the ...

A team of researchers from the University of Tübingen made the distinction after uncovering two fossilized teeth and a kneecap belonging to a previously unknown primate at a site called ...

2009; Figure 2). However, these are very rare cases. Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils ...

In 2015, scientists announced the recovery of primate teeth from animals that lived 36 million years ago in the Peruvian Amazon basin believed to have been the ancestors of New World monkeys. With no ...