Again, there is no way to evaluate a position an organism occupies in its evolutionary path.
"Do we have a trail of monkeys that goes all the way back to a fish?
No. We do not need uninterrupted lines of descent for every organism to know evolution is active.
"I bet you can find chimp bones from a million years ago.
Forest dwelling mobile organisms are not preserved well.
Lots of things don't preserve well. Fossils are rare indeed! Time wounds all heels!
But when one is looking for an excuse to dismiss evolution, even a tiny gap or "missing link" looks good.
They ignore the tens of thousands of good fossils we do have as "inconveniences" to be readily dismissed because they don't believe in that evilution stuff anyway. Because they need to destroy people's trust in science, in order to destroy people's trust in evolution, they pervert the scientific method. Here's a good quick explanation of science:
Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and--theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning; a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.CS/ID has to IGNORE old facts and hope for no new facts; and it discloses no unsuspected facts (i.e., no predictive power or falsifiability). It has to redefine "theory" to mean "proved to 199 decimal places" for evolution, but to "whatever the bible says" for CS/ID.A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts.
And their understanding of evolutionary science is very limited, and probably derived from the CS/ID websites. This is typical:
"Where are the bones of australo-pithecus versions of monkeys?
Didn't monkeys split off from the ape line many million years before the ape line began to diverge into early apes (including Australo), modern apes, and humans? So why should there be an Australo on the monkey side? That was a unique development on the ape side. (Duh!)
If the question is where are the precursors on the monkey side, they are there too! Maybe a few gaps in the various branches, but its a pretty big and solid tree.