New Family Posted: New World Monkeys!!!

A new family has been added to the Metazoica line-up, the Metazoic's New world monkey family. You can view them here: http://www.metazoica.com/NewWorldMonkeys.html. As with all the families of the Metazoic, this one is different. These monkeys actually come from the marmosets and tamarins of today. A few have developed the prehensile tails we see in a lot of today's new world monkeys. But these monkeys have had to adapt themselves to the Amazonian region of the future, where there will be a bit less jungle than there is now. Some have even pushed their range up into North America to beat the competition. In doing that, they would have to learn to adapt to colder climates. One species that lives in what is today the Rocky Mountains, has evolved a long, flat tail to wrap it's self up in during snow storms and blizzards. Acting much like our own heaviest coats.

Today, monkeys do not live in the USA, except for some that escaped a research facility in Florida and has established wild colonies there. They might even make it into the next era. Monkeys are very adaptable. But that's another family entirely. I also fixed the Guestbook feature on my site. Yesterday I noticed someone left a post and it somehow went to my guestbook for TG's Chihuahuas! How that happened I don't know! I must have put the wrong code on my Metazoic site! Well anyway, now the link goes to my Metazoic guestbook. My apologies for that!

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