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The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
With a skull length of nearly 53 mm (2.1 in), Plesiopithecus was a medium-sized strepsirrhine primate. Its skull is marked by a high muzzle, klinorhynchy, and relatively large orbits. It has very large and procumbent upper canines that are straight and compressed on both sides, and have roots that extend deep into the maxilla (upper jaw). No ...
This list follows partly from Walter Carl Hartwig's 2002 book The Fossil Primate Record [9] and John G. Fleagle's 2013 book Primate Adaptation and Evolution (3rd edition). [10] Parentheses around authors' names (and dates) indicates a change in generic name for the fossil, as stated in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). [11]
Then in 1981 Spencer allowed David Humphries, a writer for the Seattle Weekly, to take a picture of Bobo's skull. [5] However, when asked by Humphries, Spencer refused to give the skull to the Burke. After Spencer's death in 2006, his employees decided to reunite Bobo's skull with the rest of the skeleton, [ 5 ] and after some negotiating, the ...
Investigators are seeking the public's help to finally provide an ID for John Doe, whose skull was found in front of 1345 Marcy St. The rest of the skeleton was found inside the abandoned house.
A primate is a member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains lemurs, the aye-aye, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including great apes. With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent on Earth, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas , Africa and ...
A woman’s skull was discovered inside the walls of a suburban Illinois home back in 1978, and now—almost 50 years later—we finally know her name. Esther Granger was identified by the Kane ...
United States: Phil Orr Chancelade find: 14.5±2.5 [160] Homo sapiens: 1888 France: Villabruna 1: 14 Homo sapiens 1988 Italy Bonn-Oberkassel double burial [161] 14-13 [161] Homo sapiens: 1914 [162] Germany: Bichon man: 13.7 Homo sapiens 1956 Switzerland Red Deer cave skull: Red Deer Cave: 13±1.5 Homo sapiens: 1979 China Darren Curnoe?