12:35am UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009
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.
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