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Mar. 1, 2021
The earliest primate of all lived with dinosaurs, a team of American researchers suggests, based on the discovery that at least two species of them were already running around about 100,000 years after the mass extinction that all but wiped out those terrible lizards. The little furry things almost certainly had to have evolved earlier, which means they lived with dinosaurs. Including the big ones.
It’s true that these archaic primates were more like an arboreal rat than a B movie actor armed with a time machine and a jeep. But it’s awesome to think that our ancestors, albeit extremely distant ones, were dodging T. rexes. Though to be honest, the archaic primates were so small T. rex couldn’t have used them for much except maybe to floss its teeth with their tails.