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Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 7:22:04 PM   
Vendaval


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Status: offline 		For the anthropology geeks on the Forums, here is the story of Ida, a missing link in the fossil record. 
 
Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' in human evolution

Perfectly preserved fossil Ida, unveiled in New York today, provides unprecedented insight into our ancestry
 
James Randerson
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19, May 2009, 15.30 BST

"Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved ancient primate fossil that they believe forms a crucial "missing link" between our own evolutionary branch of life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
 
The 47m-year-old primate – named Ida – has been hailed as the fossil equivalent of a "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the critical early stages of primate evolution.
 
The top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered. The skeleton is 95% complete and thanks to the unique location where she died, it is possible to see individual hairs covering her body and even the make-up of her final meal – a last vegetarian snack.
 
"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of all the mammals; with cows and sheep, and elephants and anteaters," said Sir David Attenborough who is narrating a BBC documentary on the find. "The more you look at Ida, the more you can see, as it were, the primate in embryo."
 
"This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University's Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. "It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far. It's been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there's nothing almost to study." The fossil has been formally named Darwinius masillae in honour of Darwin's 200th birthday year."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/ida-fossil-missing-link

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 7:43:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Very very interesting.  Thank you for sharing.  

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 8:12:21 PM   
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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 9:47:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you Vendaval,

You continue to post quality items.
We are lucky to have you here.

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 9:54:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: outlier

Thank you Vendaval,

You continue to post quality items.
We are lucky to have you here.

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Isn't she a gem? It's like we have our very own staff librarian. Just keeps cranking out fascinating information, one after the other.


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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 9:59:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is a really fascinating animal. Assuming the researchers got it right, others in the field are casting some doubt on that, this fossil is from right after the split in primates that seperated lemurs from monkeys and apes.

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 10:04:40 PM   
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Isn't she a gem? It's like we have our very own staff librarian. Just keeps cranking out fascinating information, one after the other.



Yes she is, but it is best not to use a reference that will get me started
on the librarian who takes off her glasses and lets her hair down fantasy.

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/19/2009 10:28:06 PM   
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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/20/2009 5:21:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Much later in the day.... this seems to be picking up more coverage.
Havent seen too much from the religious sector yet though.
I'm wondering what their response is going to be.


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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/20/2009 5:40:19 AM   
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ORIGINAL: bluesgun

Much later in the day.... this seems to be picking up more coverage.
Havent seen too much from the religious sector yet though.
I'm wondering what their response is going to be.



Forty seven million years old my ass. It's a hoax. It's a fake. It cannot be, since the Lord created the world five thousand years ago, not a minute more. And those damned commie scientists are basically saying that we're related to apes via that thang? SACRILEGE! They will all burn in hell.

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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/20/2009 12:37:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

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ORIGINAL: bluesgun

Much later in the day.... this seems to be picking up more coverage.
Havent seen too much from the religious sector yet though.
I'm wondering what their response is going to be.



Forty seven million years old my ass. It's a hoax. It's a fake. It cannot be, since the Lord created the world five thousand years ago, not a minute more. And those damned commie scientists are basically saying that we're related to apes via that thang? SACRILEGE! They will all burn in hell.


Oh, the poor little thing. He got lost on his way to the ark!


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RE: Intact early primate fossil found - 5/20/2009 1:01:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		So very, very cool!

Oh, and Panda? Are you trying to make a habit of making me snort my drink?

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