A "missing link" should have characteristics of at least two animals to try and claim "linkhood". It was plainly a Lemur. I didn't even get any of the so called excitement, other than they figured it to be old, An "old" cockroach is still a cockroach and an "old" monkey is still and old monkey. There are many old fossil's out there and none of them are connected to humans.
Now I'll wait for the hour long special on Discovery channel to explain their error. Maybe a few magazine covers? anything? anywhere? Other than FR of course. Millions have now been lied to, and a few thousand will have the truth. The lie will live on, as always, and when I say there is no missing link 10 years from now, some punk will say, "Wrong, you stupid backward moron!!"." Don't you watch the Discovery Channel?"
Bingo. There will be no retractions on the grand scale of the original announcements.
A former pastor of mine used to say, “A lie will be halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes tied.”
Here, read this: Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology
In D. masillae the dorsal vertebral column shown on plate A is gently curved (that of plate B is fake) and the tail is only slightly curved.This plate holds a partial skeleton viewed from the left side, embedded in a plate of polyester. Franzen [18] showed that some of the specimen is real, while substantial parts were faked to give an illusion of greater completeness.