#primatomorpha — Public Fediverse posts
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Early Relatives of #Primates Lived in High #Arctic 52 Million Years Ago https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ellesmere-island-primates-11602.html
Basal #Primatomorpha colonized #EllesmereIsland (Arctic #Canada) during the hyperthermal conditions of the early #Eocene climatic optimum: Kristen Miller et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280114
No primate relative has ever been found at such extreme latitudes. The #ArcticCircle was much warmer when these close evolutionary cousins of primates lived, but like today was still mostly dark for half of the year.
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Im Eozän gab es auch jenseits des Polarkreises ein feuchtwarmes Klima. Dennoch war der Lebensraum extrem: Nur zwei frühe Primatenverwandte kamen damit klar.
Frühe Primaten tummelten sich in warmer Arktis
#Primaten #Evolution #Primatomorpha #Arktis #Kanada #EllesmereIsland #Eozän #Warmzeit #Biologie