Thursday, October 22, 2009

'Eighth Wonder' Ida Is Not Related To Humans, Claim Scientists

The skull of Ida. Photograph: Atlantic Productions

From The Guardian:

US palaeontologists dismiss initial claims about the 47million-year-old fossil found in Germany's Messel Pit.

Her arrival was announced with unrestrained razzmatazz. She was the "eighth wonder of the world", "our Mona Lisa" and an evolutionary "Rosetta Stone", according to the researchers who unveiled her.

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