May 10, 2010. It’s in the teeth. An odd mosaic of dental features recently unearthed in northern Egypt reveals a previously undocumented, highly-specialized primate called Nosmips aenigmaticus that lived in Africa nearly 37 million years ago. Because it is only known from its teeth, the paleontologists who discovered it don’t know what its body looked like, but the find likely represents an ancient African lineage whose discovery makes early primate evolution on that continent more complicated. Read the full story here.
