Paleontologists have unveiled the Missing Link among humans and apes at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. A team of researchers yesterday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought Missing link between humans and apes.
Scientists have unveiled a 47-Million-Year-old fossilized carcass of a monkey like creature, which they assert may supply a Missing link in human evolution. The fossil is of a lemur-like animal which was nicknamed Ida, while the official name is Darwinius masillae because the creature is a testimony that confirms the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin. According to them, the fossil, nicknamed Ida, is the “most complete primate fossil ever found'.'
The explore for a direct association 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 consultation in New York. “This specimen is like finding the Lost Ark archeologists,” lead scientist Jorn Hurum said at an observance at the American Museum of Natural History.
It is the scientific corresponding of the Holy Grail. This fossil will most likely be the one that will be pictured in all textbooks for the next 100 years." Ida was found amateur fossil hunter in a crater situated near Frankfurt in 1983, and then the fossil was bought by the University of Oslo and it was studied by John Hurum and Jens Franzen who said that this is “the eight Wonder of the World.” In the following days a documentary and book will be released about Darwinius massilae. Read More Information Click Here.
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