The first new fossil was unearthed in 2011, when the team found a molar belonging to the oldest known Old World monkey or cercopithecoid ... of a hominoid or “ape”—a jawbone and four teeth belonging ...

The tail of this Old World monkey isn’t prehensile but instead ... Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers A male macaque bares his teeth—a common display during mating. “Maybe it was a warning to me ...

If we can understand these relationships, we can use fossil teeth to reconstruct the diets of our early hominin ancestors and other extinct primates. As any five-year-old child familiar with ...