useless trivia.

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I'm updating my lecture for tomorrow, which covers primate evolution and human origins.

There's a group of mammals in Southeast Asia that might or might not be related to primates called Dermoptera. They're commonly known as "flying lemurs," in spite of neither being lemurs nor capable of actually flying. (They're also sometimes called colugos, and they do sorta kinda look like the love child between a lemur and a flying squirrel or sugar glider).

Anyway - one of the oldest such animals in the fossil record has a genus name that literally means "skin beast."

Consider your life enriched. Maybe you'll win a few bucks on Jeopardy someday. You're welcome.