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.
And we've just obtained the first picture:
Being related to lemurs would explain a lot.
My in-laws, for instance.
Lemurs!
Lemurs?
I'll have to change my tag line
Ahhhhh the old “missing link”, eh? They’ll be searching for that FOREVER!
TaraP, you quoted that other article about the fossil — 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.
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Well, I can tell you what would be an “earthshaking discovery” and also elicit screams of *horror* at the same time.
It would be the discovery that the earth was made about 10,000 years ago and that God made mankind and all living creatures in it.
That would elicit “screams of horror” from many and there would be protests in the streets of all our major cities...