A crew of now-extinct monkeys made a treacherous transatlantic journey on a natural raft from Africa to settle in South America around 35 million years ago, according to a study of fossilized teeth found in Peru
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It's believed the prehistoric Ucayalipithecus monkeys made the more than 900-mile trip across the Atlantic on floating islands of vegetation that broke off from coastlines, possibly during a tropical storm.
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