Stephen Chester
of Yale University announced October 19 at the annual meeting of the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology that several 65-million-year-old fossil ankle bones
belong to a species, Purgatorius,
known to inhabit trees, has more than a mouth. The first discovery that this
species existed was excavated in northeastern Montana nearly fifty years ago
and was quite close to the excavation site where the first Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered. Researcher William Clemens of the
University California Museum of Paleontology and his colleagues analyzed and
indicated the details within mouth as well as the teeth, however the rest of
the body has yet to be analyzed. Ken Rose of Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland states, “the teeth were so primitive we didn’t
know much” (Rose). Rose also heard the presentation and noted that the early
history of primates and the many lineages diverged makes conclusions difficult.
* Information obtained at www.sciencenews.org
* Pictures obtained at www.answersingenesis.org & www.romanticbeast.blog39.fc2.com
Figure 19.1
Figure 19.2
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