Research from Beijing - Know your Ancestor! Smaller than RATS

Updated on: Saturday, June 08, 2013

 It is interesting anxious and surprising to know that our ancestors commence their life journey from micro level that is "miniscule monkeys" small than rats according to an international study.

The world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton un earthed in central China's Hobei province in 2003 says, that the early ancestors of humans might be very small creatures.  Chinesh, American and French scientists identify the skeleton belongs to a new genus and species name Archicebus achlles.  This fossil is 7 millions years old.

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