I'm going to get into something other than my day to day life and share something truly magnificent.
"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".
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle."
This was actually discovered in 1983 originally but was only recently dubbed as an ancestral species. I'm actually quite thrilled as this is just another transitional species to which many say there are none.
I was wondering why google's homepage had a fossil in it.
I'm going to get into something other than my day to day life and share something truly magnificent.
"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".
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle."
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This was actually discovered in 1983 originally but was only recently dubbed as an ancestral species. I'm actually quite thrilled as this is just another transitional species to which many say there are none.
I was wondering why google's homepage had a fossil in it.