Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
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This 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' is described as the "eighth wonder of the world".
Lemur monkey
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".
Darwin's theory
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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