Word: monkeyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...humid Asian rain forests on feet no bigger than rice grains. Shy nocturnal creatures, they snapped up insects and nectar as quickly as their tiny bodies could digest them, all the while trying to avoid becoming a meal themselves for nightly predators such as owls. Meet Eosimias, the "dawn monkey"--what some experts are calling the primate equivalent of the missing link...
...acknowledges, however, that it will take more than a few foot bones to establish Eosimias as the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and man. Some experts, in fact, say that Eosimias is probably closer to the tarsiers, which split off earlier from the monkey-to-human branch. "So far, we don't have the smoking gun," argues anthropologist Eric Delson of the City University of New York's Lehman College. He would be convinced, he says, by a full skull showing fused eye sockets and forehead. (By contrast, lemurs have gaps in both places...
Continuing their excavations, Gebo's team hopes that prize may yet turn up at the fossil-rich site in China. But even without it, dawn monkey's tiny feet have given us the best glimpse so far of what our primate forebear might have looked like...
Please allow my son to bring in his favorite stuffed animal, Curious George, to Show and Tell. He is in no way implying that he and the monkey share a common ancestry...
Coach and Chief know everyone's name and at their semi-weekly open houses they serve several thousand pieces of their famous monkey-bread...