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 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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Research estimates there are more than 15,000 other primates such as ... , from the Humane Society of the United States to the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance and the ...