Missing Link Revealed?

The BBC has made an extraordinary new documentary, presented by Sir David Attenborough, which will reveal the discovery of a fossilised skeleton that may be a vital 'missing link' in human evolution. The 90-minute programme is top secret but sources in America say that the results of the study on which it is based will be revealed by a team of scientists and broadcasters in New York on May 19.


The centrepiece of the programme is the unveiling of the first-ever complete skeleton of an extinct animal called an adapid. The fossilised bones, which are thought to be between 37 and 47 million years old, were found in Germany's Messel Shale Pit, a disused quarry near Frankfurt famous for its fossils. The team who examined the young female animal say it has some resemblance to a lemur, a mammal with a distinctive tail that is found to this day in the forests of Madagascar.

(via UniqueDaily)