Four million times agone , the monumental plates underpinning North

and South America crashed into each other, creating the Island of
Panama. inheritable exploration suggests that this was the moment
that monkeys crossed into regions of present- day Central America
from their ancestral homes to the south. But seven teeth set up in
Panama suggest that the primates headed north much before, and that
they crossed 100 long hauls of ocean to reach their new world.

According to a paper published this week in Nature, seven monkey

teeth were discovered boxed in 21- million- time-old gemstone set up
during an excavation of material from the Panama Canal expansion.
That means the primates must have crossed an ocean hedge formerly
allowed invincible for utmost creatures. “ It’s fantastic, ”