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October 21, 2009
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Sifaka Lemur in Madagascar.
Palentologist Erik Seiffert and his research team recently uncovered the fossils of a new adapiform primate, which they describe as a distant relative to current day lemurs.
Credit: Credit: Walter Jetz, UCSD
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