World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle. Duke Today, July 25, 2019. A fossilized tooth found in Peru’s Amazon jungle has been identified as belonging to a new species of tiny monkey no heavier than a hamster. The find helps bridge a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record for New World monkeys. Picked up by The Times of London, VICE, Gizmodo and Haaretz.
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Giant meat-eater. 1,100 Words on Duke Research. April 18, 2019. Matt Borths was visiting a museum in Kenya when he opened a drawer and saw a gigantic jaw and dagger-like teeth glinting up at him, larger than a lion’s. Now the 22 million-year-old fossils, hidden for decades, have given scientists their first look at one of the largest meat-eating mammals ever to walk the Earth.