[JoeProBono]

VIDEO

[unkus]

ping for home

[Shermy]

Chupacabra

[TheWasteLand]

It looks like an H.R. Geiger painting.

[campaignPete R-CT]

It’s about time they found one of them critters! Ya never know, could involve fraud.

[VR-21]

"The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US. The preservation is so good, it is possible to see the outline of its fur and even traces of its last meal.The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higher primates - monkeys, apes and humans - and more distant relatives."

An interesting post, but I'd be inclined to name a fossil who looked like a lemur Nancy.

[pgkdan]

In addition, Ida bears "a close resemblance to ourselves" he said, with nails instead of claws, a grasping hand and an opposable thumb - like humans and some other primates. But he said some aspects of the teeth indicate she is not a direct ancestor - more of an "aunt" than a "grandmother".

Bull excrement! 'She' does not have opposable thumbs...she has opposable toes! Just like modern appes. What a load of crap.

[Nachum]

Very interesting

[stinkerpot65]

Evolutionists are laughably desperate.

[Nosterrex]

I have lived long enough to be skeptical of such hyperbole. I cannot begin to count the number of times scientist have found the missing link only to be proven false. Anyone that believes that scientists are objective observers have never been around any scientists.

[Bullish]

It may well be Obama’s missing link, but it sure aint’ mine.

[Knute]

The History Channel is running promotions for a program they will air on May 25th. The “teasers” in these advertisements sound like it could be this same fossil. I look at the picture and see the Geico lizard!

[JRios1968]

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

New fossil reveals primates lingered in Texas
EurekAlert! | October 13, 2008 | Chris Kirk, University of Texas at Austin
Posted on 11/06/2008 4:10:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2127425/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Tiny Fossil Animal
May Link Lower Primates
With Humans
by John Noble Wilford
March 16, 2000

Fossil bones of an animal no bigger than a shrew and weighing less than an ounce have been identified as belonging to the earliest known relative in the primate lineage that led to monkeys, apes and humans. The wee animal lived 45 million years ago in a humid rain forest in what is now China... The paleontologists who announced the discovery yesterday said the fossil animals, named Eosimias for "dawn monkey," were the best evidence yet for fixing the time and place of one of the more fateful branchings in evolution. Eosimias appeared to be a transitional figure when lower primates, known as prosimians, went their separate way, developing into today's lemurs, lorises, bush babies and tarsiers, while the diverging higher primates, anthropoids, evolved into more prepossessing creatures, eventually including human beings... scatterings of fossils point to the earliest primates of any kind appearing about 55 million years ago, mainly in Asia. But when the two lines of primates diverged had seemed to be lost in the wide gaps in the fossil record... This was further evidence that, although the more immediate human forebears arose in Africa, their earliest primate ancestors appeared to come from Asia. Somehow primates then migrated to Africa. Dr. MacPhee said the Euroasian origin of primates was now generally accepted by scientists, "thanks in part to Beard's work," but "why that should be is itself controversial now."

[SunkenCiv]

corrected:

• History Channel Announces "Global Event" For May 25th...
• "Missing Link" Primate Likely To Stir Debate

from the cr/evo "debate":

• Some scientists say Ida is the missing link
• Ho-Hum, Another Human Missing Link
  (Temple of Darwin in full religious revival mode)
• Ida: the Missing Link at Last?
  (the Creationist Interpretation)
• 'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype

[Antoninus]

Grandpa!