Something very remarkable……….Folks (only those) who subscribe to the theory of evolution have long wondered about the famed missing link: That creature that connected human beings with other mammals, turns out, scientists may have found it. They've been studying it for two years, but the find was kept a secret until recently. And what a find it is: the fossilized remains of a 47-million-year-old primate. A Guardian article detailing the fossil's finding was among the week's most popular stories. It explains that the fossil will have a huge impact on the study of human history and its images will likely be found in text books for the next 100 years. Oh, and in case you were wondering, the fossil was named "Ida," after the daughter of one of the scientists.
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Ida was originally discovered by an amateur fossil hunter in the summer of 1983 at Messel pit, a world renowned fossil site near Darmstadt in Germany. He kept it under wraps for over 20 years before deciding to sell it via a German fossil dealer called Thomas Perner. It was Perner who approached Hurum two years ago.
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According to the team's published description of the skeleton in the journal PLoS ONE, Ida was 53cm long and a juvenile around six to nine months old. The team can be sure Ida is a girl because she does not have a penis bone.
The researchers believe it comes from the time when the primate lineage, that diversified into monkeys, apes and ultimately humans, split from a separate group that went on to become lemurs and other less well known species.
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