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12:35 am UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009 [i]

Alex Watts, Sky News Online

Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

This 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' is described as the "eighth wonder of the world"



The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".

They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".

Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.




"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals," he said.

"This is the one that connects us directly with them.

"Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'.

"The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."

A team of the world's leading fossil experts, led by Professor Jorn Hurum, of Norway's National History Museum, have been secretly researching the 1ft 9in-tall young female monkey for the past two years.

And now it has been transported to New York under high security and unveiled to the world during the bicentenary of Darwin's birth."

Happy wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 3:57pm:


The religions only accommodate the findings to appear relevant today,happy, you only have to look at some of the posters here to see some people will never get it.

oceans, that story can't be true, didn't you know the world is only 5 thousand years old, and if god made man in his image god must be a monkey .

The US does have a lot of creationists. Really strange stuff, but, people will believe anything if its popular enough.

Like 'Islam is the Religion of Peace' despite the globe being dominated by Islamic warfare, pretty much everywhere Islam is.

Human beings think in terms of minutes and hours, maybe just barely, in days. The idea of millenia, is not able to be grasped by most people. They cannot conceive of how much can happen in tens of millions of years. So they therefore think that there cannot be evolution, because, they haven't seen their domestic cat evolve into a lion....yes...the arguments are that stupid.

Evolution is fact - it occurs over millions of years, very very slowly. And weather there is a God or not, is not affected by evolution. You can still quite comfortably say, God made the universe, including evolution. I know some pretty hard core Catholic fundies who take that view, and believe that the Garden of Eden is a metaphor not to be taken literally, which is, only that they say, God made us and we turned from him.

The truth is, we are just advanced apes that think we are the greatest because we wear clothes and drive cars. While there are occasional flares of brilliance from our ape population, the bulk of the tribe are bog standard stoopid, and believe all sorts of ridiculous things.

Grendel wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 7:42pm:


I think the discovery of Ida disproves that dont you  

Grendel wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 7:57pm:



What point would there be to producing a fake..you know i think there is a missing link or 2 in this forum 
and why do i have a sudden craving for a  banana smoothie?   

Have you seen the movie "Inherit The Wind"

grendel - never heard of "inherit the wind" - any good ??

that 'missing link" has a longer tail than I do.
it's a monkey.

Beautiful, wonderful.