{"id":218961,"date":"2026-04-11T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218961"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:48:30","slug":"tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218961","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Purgatorius fossils in Denver Basin hint at early primate spread southward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates\u2014including humans\u2014have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before, and the breakthrough is providing paleontologists with fresh clues about evolution. The work appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-denver-basin.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates\u2014including humans\u2014have been unearthed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218961-tiny-purgatorius-fossils-in-denver-basin-hint-at-early-primate-spread-southward.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}