A Fossil Bone Being Prepared to Be Extracted from Rocks (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Fossil Bone Being Prepared to Be Extracted from Rocks

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UNLV geoscientist Terry Spell and former master's student Dawn Reynoso are part of a research team that discovered primitive monkey teeth in Kenya. The fossils were determined to belong to a previously undiscovered species -- filling a 6-million-year void in primate evolution.

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Terry Spell/UNLV

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