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	Meet the ancestors

zadoz

5-20-2009 5:32 AM

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lemur, mammal, fossil

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47-million-year-old lemur-like creature may be the 'missing link

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/03244c3c-43f5-4294-85cb-aa9ef2ee0294/C0DE2A8A-9D53-4BD8-BB4A-56CC8AEE0C9E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thesun.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><H1 class="large">
Meet the ancestors</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><H2 class="padding-bottom-7">
THIS perfectly preserved, 47-million-year-old fossil could be the missing link 
between humans and our most distant ancestors. 
</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thesun.co.uk/img/504A43FF-A0D2-4E33-B420-7A5BB8A8CD14" alt="Ida like to introduce an old relative ... lemur-like creature may be the 'missing link'" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><P class="small bold">Ida like to introduce an old relative ... lemur-like creature may be the 'missing link'</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><P class="article">
The skeleton — nicknamed Ida — is the oldest mammal known to man that had four 
fingers and opposable thumbs on its hands and feet, meaning it could grasp 
objects in the same way humans and monkeys can. It could also walk upright. 
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The species was undiscovered until its skeleton, the most complete fossil 
primate ever found and estimated to be 37 to 47 million years old, was dug 
up in Germany’s Messel Shale Pit, a disused quarry near Frankfurt. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thesun.co.uk/img/58B0ED63-184D-49C5-9125-37141EF8C5A2" alt="Relatively speaking ... Sir David Attenborough with lemur" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><P class="small bold">Relatively speaking ... Sir David Attenborough with lemur</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thesun.co.uk/img/AF5B42ED-746F-4A8C-8440-AB5A10821249" alt="'Lemurlution' ... Ida the lemur has a bone in her ankle like a human's. It meant she could walk upright – a key point in evolution when primates split into human and non-human species" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><P class="small bold">'Lemurlution' ... Ida the lemur has a bone in her ankle like a human's. It meant she could walk upright – a key point in evolution when primates split into human and non-human species</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thesun.co.uk/img/EF2583E7-CB1D-490F-AC7B-329A2C04522D" alt="Talus about it ... tiny ankle bone made walking upright possible for Ida" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2438463.ece"><P class="small bold">Talus about it ... tiny ankle bone made walking upright <BR />possible for Ida</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0DE2A8A-9D53-4BD8-BB4A-56CC8AEE0C9E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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