Resumen de Our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats
It was thought that the common ancestor of all primates scampered along thin tree branches. Now a new fossil suggests it was actually a bizarre monkey-like animal capable of impressive leaping. Doug Boyer at Duke University in North Carolina and his team say that a 52-million-year-old ankle bone found in France was from an early primate called Donrussellia provincialis. They claim D. provincialis is the most primitive wet-nosed primate known. What is more, the bone suggests it flexed and extended its ankle to launch into the air
