英语阅读：地球最早灵长类生活在树上.docxVIP

Earths earliest primates2 have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles. A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller3. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing4 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected from sites in northeastern Montana. Purgatorius, part of an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, first appears in the fossil record shortly after the extinction5 of non-avian dinosaurs6. Some researchers have speculated over the years that primitive7 p