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Anthropologist Discovers Long-Lost Primate

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A team led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist Sharon Gursky-Doyen has discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years.

The pygmy tarsiers, furry Furby/gremlin-looking creatures about the size of a small mouse and weighing less than 2 ounces, have not been observed since they were last collected for a museum in 1921. Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000.

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http://tamunews.tamu.edu/archives/article.php?articleid=6991&month=11&...

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