new species

The new species—named Tarsius sirindhornae—lived about 13 million years ago. Chaimanee and her team recently found 18 jawbone fossils from the new species in an old coal. Each jaw holds one to four tiny teeth.
Tarsiers are primates that share a common ancestor with monkeys and humans. The big-eyed, nocturnal animals are today found mostly in Southeast Asia.

We know living tarsiers eat insects or small mammals. We expect sirindhornae ate something different but the team will need to do more research to discover what that might be, Chaimanee said.