The Missing link?: Scientists unveil lemur-like fossil at New York's American Museum of Natural History
Say hello to "Aunt Ida"- you’ll find her 47million years back on your family tree.
The lemur-like fossil, thought to be a missing link between today’s primates and distant relatives, is on show at New York’s American Museum of Natural History after being launched amid great fanfare by the city’s mayor.
The skeleton is so good that it still has an outline of fur and there are traces of its last meal.
The female animal lived during the Eocene Period, when early primates developed.
The investigation of the fossil’s significance was led by Jorn Hurum of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway.
He said the fossil creature was "the closest thing we can get to a direct ancestor" and described its discovery as "a dream come true".
Dr Jens Franzen, an expert on Germany’s Messel Pit, where Ida was found in the 1980s, said: "She belongs to the group from which humans developed, but my impression is she is not on the direct line."
He explained this meant she was more of an aunt than a grandmother. Other experts are sceptical, making them anti-Ida…
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I don’t understand why people bash religion yet praise science as infallible.
There is no biological evidence that states this has any connection to modern man.
In fact, structurally if you look at the skeleton of a Lemur or a modern spider monkey… “Aunt Ida” looks as if she was probably THEIR predecessor than ours.
I think Science is so excited about proving evolution that they are latching onto any primate skeleton older than 1000 years old… and claiming it to be our relative with no real hard evidence to back it up.
let me close by saying this.
Humans are made up of about 60% water. about 90% of watermelons are made up of water. By the logic that relates us to “Aunt Ida” the watermelon should be our distant cousin.