by
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor | October 29,
2015 02:11pm ET
The
fossil of a small primate with "goggle" eyes that strode atop tree
branches,
snagging snacks of fruit, suggests the last common ancestor of all apes might
have been less like humans' closest living relatives than often thought,
researchers say.
This
discovery could shed light on what the last common ancestor of all apes and
humans might have been like, scientists added.
For
instance, the newfound species was a small-bodied ape that would have weighed
about 8.8 to 11 lbs. (4 to 5 kilograms), making it similar in size to the smallest living gibbons.
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