An artist’s impression of Ekgmowechashala, an ancient North American primate. Illustration: Kristen Tietjen, scientific illustrator with the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum ...

The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds, ekes ...

The fossils closely resembled the Ekgmowechashala material that had been found in North America in the 1960s, when the primate was still quite mysterious to North American paleontologists.

Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China).

According to April Stewart, the plans for the primate sanctuary came at a dark time in her life. After serving with security forces in the Air Force, she worked as a radiographer for Memorial ...

Ekgmowechashala is a species found to have bridged the gap between North American primates that vanished during a massive cooling event 34 million years ago and the arrival of the Clovis people, ...

Fossils tell tale of last primate to inhabit North America before humans . University of Kansas. Journal Journal of Human Evolution DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103452 ...

These conditions caused all of the primates living in North America at the time to go extinct, around 34 million years ago. Then, over 4 million years later, Ekgmowechashala suddenly appeared in the ...

Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it's connected to early primate evolution.

Eleven accredited primate sanctuaries exist in North America, most in the southern United States. The closest to Tampa Bay is the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, founded by Patti Ragan in 1993.

The North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance ... In the late 2010s, ownership of MPF's seven primates, including Tonka, was transferred from Connie Casey to Tonia Haddix, ...

The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti Western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against the odds ...