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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Flying Lemurs Are Primates' Closest Kin


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A Malayan colugo (top) carries its baby as it soars (bottom) through a Southeast Asian rain forest.

A new genetic study has found colugos, also known as flying lemurs, are primates' closest evolutionary cousins.

Photographs courtesy Norman Lim, National University of Singapore