Paleontology #14
PRIMATES and related orders
Order CHIROPTERA (bats)     Order SCANDENTIA (tree shrews)  Order DERMOPTERA (colugos) Link to videos Order PRIMATES (18th cent. name: Quadrumana) Primates are mammals whose evolution has been shaped by arboreal adaptations (adaptations to life in trees).    Link: fossil prosimians   Sifaka (Propithecus) Primate noses      Link: fossil Catarrhina 
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rev. Oct. 2017