Monkeys left Egypt, crossed the Atlantic and settled the Peruvian forests

Had it not been for the proven scientific evidence, no one who believed in this week’s American Science Journal would have believed that a number of monkeys had left the region now known to Egypt, across the Red Sea and then the Atlantic Ocean, until he reached the American continent, and settled in what became known later as forests Amazon, but that happened tens of millions of years ago, and now it has solid evidence.

The evidence is 4 fossilized teeth of extinct monkeys, whose fossils were found by a team from the University of Southern California, in the Amazon region of Peru, according to what Al Arabiya.net read with a summary of the study in which they considered that what they found in 2015 was revealed About him just now, it is evidence of the transfer of these monkeys from the African continent to the American transatlantic, because they are from an extinct family, the African species are known as Parapithecidae, and researchers believe that it has traveled more than 1,600 km on the floating remains of plants separated from their places on the coastal land, perhaps because of A hurricane or a storm, and it took her to the ocean.

The study on teeth, also published on the website of the University of Southern California, in which its lead author Erik Seiffert describes the discovery is important and unique "because the seemingly unlikely journey to move from Africa to America is possible," referring to the transmission of monkeys that researchers called Ucayali pithecus Perdita where "Okayali" refers to the area where the fossils were found, while "bethikos" refers to the monkey in Greek, while "bardetta" means missing in Latin, so the name becomes: the missing oakyali monkey.

Researchers believe that the site is from the Oligocene Geological Age, which spanned from 23 to 34 million years, and according to its age and the extinct monkey's proximity to fossil relatives found in Egypt, scientists estimate that migration may have occurred approximately 34 million years ago, so Sievert said: "Perhaps those monkeys reached South America about what we call the boundaries of the Eocene-Oligocene ages, where the Antarctic ice layer began to increase and the sea level decreased, and this decline may have played a role in facilitating the passage of these monkeys slightly across the Atlantic Ocean," he believed.