For nearly 100 years, scientists haven’t been able to agree on the evolutionary origins of a strange, now-extinct monkey that lived and thrived in Jamaica for thousands of years. New research suggests ...

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The unusual primate has baffled scientists since its discovery in 1920 American Museum of Natural History Some 11 million years ago, small arboreal primates closely related to the modern-day titi ...

Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori suggests it may be the one of the most recent primate species anywhere in the world to become extinct, and ...