Caribbean monkey skull baffles scientists

[Judi Lynn]

Caribbean monkey skull baffles scientists
By QMI Agency

Last Updated: July 23, 2010 4:30pm

Scientists have found a monkey skull in the Caribbean that is apparently thousands of years old. They are baffled, though, that it bears a striking resemblance to a species that died off 16 million years ago in Argentina.

It's the first well-preserved skull ever discovered on the island of Hispaniola, and appears to be linked to modern monkeys in the region.

But the skull's brain case is unusually shaped, most closely resembling a species of Argentinean monkey that went extinct 16 million years ago.

The skull is so drastically different than anything else found on the Caribbean region that it calls into question the long-held theory that a single monkey species accidentally ended up in Caribbean and all monkey species on the islands sprung from that one source.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/07/23/14807241.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. ProtoGOP skull

[jgraz]

2. Sorry, monkeys have a cerebral cortex

The Proto-GOP skull won't have progressed beyond the limbic system.

[nilram]

3. good point, science wins again!