An interesting fossil find

In 1983, an amateur fossil hunter discovered an intriguing primate fossil at Messel pit near Darmstadt, Germany. Eventually the museum the Natural History Museum of Oslo University acquired the fossil.

This 47 million-year-old primate fossil is called Ida and for the past two year Dr Jørn Hurum and his team has studied the fossil. Darwinius masillae is the formal name for this fossil has a talus bone in her ankle and was in the process of forming her permanent teeth.

An article about this fossil titled Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' in human evolution was published on guardian.co.uk on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.

I always find articles like this intriguing because they give information about the history of life on earth. I'm not sure just yet how I'm going to incorporate the information, other then writing a poem to Ida, but the information still interest me whether I use it for anything else or not.