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One of the two skeletons was from a subadult individual of a new genus and species, Caipora bambuiorum, in 1996 as a giant spider monkey. [2] The other skeleton was identified as a specimen of Protopithecus brasiliensis, which was made valid once again as a genus based on size and long bone morphology. [9]
Geoffroy's spider monkey Spider monkey skeleton on display at The Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Spider monkeys are among the largest New World monkeys; black-headed spider monkeys, the largest spider monkey, have an average weight of 11 kilograms (24 lb) for males and 9.66 kg (21.3 lb) for females.
Geoffroy's spider monkey belongs to the New World monkey family Atelidae, which contains the spider monkeys, woolly monkeys, muriquis and howler monkeys.It is a member of the subfamily Atelinae, which includes the spider monkeys, woolly monkeys and muriquis, and of the genus Ateles, which contains all the spider monkeys.
Megamonodontium mccluskyi (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) is an extinct species of spider from the Miocene (16–11 million years ago). [1] [2] [3] Its fossil was discovered in June 2020 in New South Wales, Australia, at McGraths Flat fossil site, by Dr Simon McClusky. [4] [5] It is the first fossil of the Barychelidae family ever found. [6]
Gigantopithecus (/ d ʒ aɪ ˌ ɡ æ n t oʊ p ɪ ˈ θ i k ə s, ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s, d ʒ ɪ-/ jy-gan-toh-pih-THEE-kəs, -PITH-ih-kəs, jih-; [2] lit. ' giant ape ') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000 to 200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. [3]
The newly discovered long-extinct species is described as a “large spider-like arachnid” with “distinctive large spines on the legs” by the study’s authors. ... “A huge area across a ...
A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen.. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the ...
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