You'll be seeing a lot of media hype about a new paper, Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology. Here's some perspective, A Discovery That Will Change Everything (!!!) ... Or Not and There is no missing link. Bora has just about every commentary on this paper in his link list....
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Another super-cool day at PLoS (one of those days when I wish I was not telecommuting, but sharing in the excitement with the colleagues at the Mothership) - the publication of a very exciting article describing a rarely well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric primate in a lineage to which we all…
This is an important new fossil, a 47 million year old primate nicknamed Ida. She's a female juvenile who was probably caught in a toxic gas cloud from a volcanic lake, and her body settled into the soft sediments of the lake, where she was buried undisturbed.
What's so cool about it?
Age. It's 47…
The exceptionally preserved skeleton of Darwinius, known popularly as "Ida." From PLoS One.
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It has been three days now since an international team of paleontologists promised to deliver the change we need change everything, but when I woke up this morning I was pleased to find that things had…
You probably know that there is a new primate fossil, nicknamed "Ida," and that there is quite a buzz about it. (Well, you certainly do know by now because this is a repost!)
Darwinius masillae, aka Ida
Ida comes from fossil deposits in Germany, and was originally excavated in two different…
A crushed Adapoid from the Messel...not exactly earth-shattering but certainly a cool find.
The discovery about the precursors to the "RNA world" by that Manchester chemist is probably more worthy of the over-hyped headlines.