The missing link in human’s evolution has been found, or at least that’s what researchers think.

This 47 million-year-old primate (Darwinius Masillae) unveiled yesterday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is the long-sought missing link in mankind’s family tree. Known as Ida, the lemur-like creature had opposable thumbs like humans, fingernails instead of claws and hands that can grasp things.

Ida, the 47million-year-old lemur could be the missing link in human evolution

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Geologists have come across a bewildering multitude of dinosaur footprints and tail-drag marks, of at least a 1,000 dinosaurs, on the Arizona-Utah border in the US. It is believed that 190 million years ago, the area, then in the tropics as part of the Pangaea continent, was a sandy oasis much like the Sahara Desert.

The tracks reveal that there must have been four species of dinosaurs ranging from the young to the adults that traveled all the way to the watering hole to quench their thirst. When Dr. Chan first saw these footprints in 2005, she thought that they were probably potholes created by erosion but on closer examination she noticed some prominent signs of claw, toe and heel marks.

These tracks had been hidden all these years under shifting dunes that later turned to Navajo Sandstone which then slowly eroded to reveal the fascinating footprints. But to the disappointment of Dr. Chan and all other geologists, these marvelous footprints too will slowly erode with time.

I wonder if Sarah Palin knows these interesting facts about dinosaurs … – via DailyMail