Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.
The discovery of the 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ – dubbed Ida – is described by experts as the “eighth wonder of the world”.
They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be “somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth”.
Shrugs shoulders, scratches head.
(Update: @ 3:07 PST, LGF 1.0 only posted about because we LGF 2.0 the blogmocracy posted about this. We have “fake but accurate” pictures that prove this, which we will not divulge at this time.)
Also see Hot Air and Allahpundits take:
Smells like … victory. If anyone needs me, I’ll be at the bar drinking champagne with Charles Johnson.
But whatever you do, don’t go and find the numerous anti-LGF comments, like this one:
Good for you. Just don’t you go batsh*t insane like he has…..
mjk on May 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Tags: Evolution
