Primate skeleton may tell old tale

 
By The Associated Press | Modified: May 20, 2009 at 4:33 am | Published: May 20, 2009   

NEW YORK — The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

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Experts praised the discovery for the detail it provided but said it was far from a breakthrough that would solve the puzzles of early evolution.

About the size of a small cat, the...
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