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Tango0120 Apr 2016 12:41 p.m. PST

"The remains of the first known monkey in North America were recently unearthed in the southernmost point of the continent, Panama, according to a new study.

The discovery suggests that the monkey, which would have looked like a modern capuchin, managed to travel across 100 miles of water dividing North America from South America 21 million years ago. The findings are published in the journal Nature.

Co-author Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus, said the discovery adds a new chapter to the "utterly bizarre" history of New World monkeys…"
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Chokidar21 Apr 2016 4:36 a.m. PST

I thought this was a post about Trump…

Tango0121 Apr 2016 10:45 a.m. PST

Ha!Ha!Ha!…

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coopman21 Apr 2016 2:59 p.m. PST

Was it found clutching a sign that said, "1st monkey in North America"?

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