Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

The experts concluded Ida was not simply a lemur but a 'lemur monkey', displaying a mixture of both groups, and therefore putting her at the very branch of the human line.

Two things immediately came to mind while reading the article:

1) Not that I don't appreciate the relevance of this discovery as it directly relates to humans, but was there really any legitimate question regarding evolution prior to this discovery? True, discoveries such as this continually provide more evidence of evolution, but I thought the case had already been made, generally speaking.

2) Holy @%#$! The creature from Eraserhead was real!

Ida: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution