" Missing Link" ? Discovered
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The discovery of a beautifully preserved fossil of a lemur-like early Primate, believed to be 47 million years old and already being hailed as ” the missing link”” and even as “the eighth wonder ” by palaeontologists will soon be unveiled amid great fanfare at the American Museum of Natural History in New York . Nicknamed as ‘Ida” ,the fossil find which is a female of the species and now assigned the scientific name Darwinius masillae is so well prserved that even a shadow line of its coat of hairs is visible together with traces of its last meal.
Originally discovered in 1980 from the famed fossil trove of Messel Pit near Darmstadt in Germany, Ida remained in a private collection unannounced, till its significance was investigated by a team led by Jhon Hurum of the Natural History Museum of Oslo, Norway. According to Hurum ” it is the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor” and “a dream come true”.
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so where’s a picture of Ida? Whoe cares about seeing three old white people?!!
nicK MASTICK, You should have been more patient. Click (or preview(Snap/Cool iris, in firefox) on the link ‘Learn more” and yo would have got pictures, videos, and details from the report.