A great-great-great aunt?

this is really interesting news!!hope this will give some clue as to how the human race evolved!!

That is neat. I will try to get the link to load. I have wonderful dialup. I love to see and hear about things like this on cabke channels mainly. Thanks for sharing with us.

I saw this on the news this week. It was found in lake deposits that had accumulated inside a volcanic crater and which acted as a natural trap for all kinds of creatures. Now that thay have found this specimen there, I'm sure that they will be searching for more fossils there in the future. Elic and Pye, I think that you'll be interested in a series that is being shown on the BBC at the present. It's called "The Incredible Human Journey" and you can see it online at http://www.bbc.com/iplayer. That link will take you to the iplayer homepage, just enter the program title in the search box at the top to find the episodes to date. I think that you will find the series to be very interesting.

I think we both missed our calling--LOL--we're both fascinated by any archaeological/anthropological news and should have gone in that field..LOL---Amazing how scientists are still discovering things like this and to find such an intact specimen is really rare --I wonder if the true missing link of man's evolution will ever be found. (Okay I'm a bit off topic here--I'm surprised you didn't do a discussion of how archaeologists think they found the tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra--mmmmm...maybe subject for you next discussion?)

I saw this on TV and the web, it also fascinates me. I love looking back at things like this. I saw a great video on PBS and ordered it. It was called " The Journey of Man". It showed rhe DNA trail or ancestors took.

I thank you for posting this ElicBxn! So interesting! I wonder what she looked like and whether we truly are 'related'! It does prove that there is so much about our world and how we came to be that is still unknown. It makes me wonder if there are more creatures like this one; extinct beings that we have not ever seen. It's very fascinating indeed and I hope to find out more about this possible great-great-great aunt of ours.

I saw this on the news the other night. I don't know what I think about it. So many times these evolution skeletons have been found to be fixed. I read a story a couple of years ago, and I couldn't find it just now, about a scientist that took a saw and chiseled down a jaw bone to make it fit into the skeleton of a monkey. I am not pro-evolution anyway, so I'm automatically skeptical.

The article I saw said that this fossil was actually found in 1983 and was in the hands of a private collector until it was bought in 2007 by the museum. It also quoted someone from the museum as saying he didn't think it was a great-great-aunt, but more like a third cousin twice removed.

I have looked at the photos allready. It is indeed a great find. I am certian that scientist will learn quite a lot over the years. remineds me of the movie "Night at the Muesusem". I just hope this critter does not come to life hahahah.