Baby pygmy marmosets born

From ZooBorns in the USA:

These tiny twins are the newest addition to the Pygmy Marmoset family in Houston Zoo‘s Natural Encounters rainforest. Weighing in at about a half ounce as babies, marmosets are the smallest monkey in the world.

Animals That Fit In Your Palm (PHOTOS): here.

Primates´ smell: here.

The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University‘s Institute of Human Origins in the Dec. 28 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): here.

Evolution and biogeography of primates: a new model based on molecular phylogenetics, vicariance and plate tectonics: here.

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