[DouglasKC]

A little research makes me think that they're talking about a (supposedly) 47,000,000 year old fossil that was recently discovered. See this thread for details. Marginally earthshaking if you think man evolved from lower life forms.

[TaraP]

You could be right on!
Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html

In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today’s lemurs in Madagascar.

Based on previously limited fossil evidence, one big debate had been whether the tarsidae or adapidae group gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans. The latest discovery bolsters the less common position that our ancient ape-like ancestor was an adapid, the believed precursor of lemurs.

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“Marginally earthshaking if you think man evolved from lower life forms.”

If you don't believe in that, then explain liberals