[Pharmboy]

Ancient Republican.

[Pharmboy]

Pachyderm ping...

[Vaquero]

unfortunately our best versed evo guy is out of the crevo business.

[Jaxter]

[fortheDeclaration]

Ancient Republican

LOL!

[RoadTest]

A chain is as strong as its weakest link. As for "missing links" - well - that chain's not good for anything.

[aculeus]

Ho hum. Another plant by that clever creator Intelligent Designer.

(/youknowwhat)

[metmom]

So how much of the fossil was actually found? The article and link don't say. All they talk about is the teeth. Were there more remains found?

[Graymatter]

Barney we hardly knew ye!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PB for the ping. It's great that they get this snorted out. [rimshot!] Sorry, I'm kinda tired.

[upcountryhorseman]

Prove it! It could just as well be a separate species entirely.

[RightWhale]

Great! Now instead of a gap in the fossil record they have two gaps.

[Right in Wisconsin]

please take me off list

[Dustbunny]

Simply amazing what can be determined by a few teeth or a couple of bones.

[DannyTN]

"In age and anatomy it is exactly the sort of intermediate evolutionists would expect to bridge the gap between archaic and advanced proboscideans," Sanders said.

Well, except that evolutionists don't usually predict "exactly" the sort of intermediate to be found. In fact, Charles Darwin said it this way....

"Hence in all such cases, we should be unable to recognise the parent-form of any two or more species, even if we closely compared the structure of the parent with that of its modified descendants, unless at the same time we had a nearly perfect chain of the intermediate links." - Origin of Species p281 rev1

With a prediction so non-specific, simple species variation can easily be mistaken for intermediates. Thus mistaking common design for common descent.

[Elsie]

A pig-sized, tusked creature ....

I don't know what size of pigs live around them, but THIS dude would produce bacon you could use for a belt!

[4CJ]

A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended

Older Group ... alleged missing link ... Recent Group

The dating of the new fossil, discovered in the East African country of Eritrea, also pushes the origins of elephants and mastodons five million years farther into the past

If alleged missing LINK is between the two groups, then it CAN'T push back the age. Evo math at it's finest!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

When this generation's skeletons are excavated years from now, we'll be seen as a new species (maybe several) because some of us have had braces or had their wisdom teeth removed; others have had teeth whitening or {shudder} some have had their teeth sharpened, diamonds implanted. Some new species even had gold embedded in their teeth... an unexpected development and a new missing link!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

2 more gaps in the fossil record.

A shorter species name would've been nice.