
Time Machine Animal Safari
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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The Oldest Primate That We Know of Is 56 Million Years Old
Scientists just don't know when primates branched off from mammals into our own separate group. And it's 56 million years ago, ten million years after that mass extinction event, that we actually picked them up in the fossil record. The bigger picture is how that animal led to all of primates. Could they have been domesticated? You might try putting a saddle on an ostrich.
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