Aegyptopithecus
30
million years ago
Ever seen
a howler monkey? That's what your extended family member would have
resembled roughly halfway back to the dinosaurs, temporally speaking.
Your
Ancestor's Profile Aegyptopithecus—the name honors Egypt, where its fossil remains were
found—was a primitive anthropoid, the group that includes monkeys, apes,
and us. It would have weighed about 15 pounds, roughly the same as a modern
howler monkey, and its behavior would have been similar to that of living
monkeys.
