Missing Link Found - Ida, The 47 Million-Year-Old Fossil
June 25, 2009 / 7560
Scientists have unveiled the missing link between humans and apes at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The missing link is a 47 million years old primate, and the discovery has been dubbed as the Holy Grail of human evolution. The fossil is of a lemur-like animal which was nicknamed Ida, while the official name is Darwinius masillae because the creature is a proof that confirms the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin.
Ida - 47 Million Yead Old Fossil
The 47 million-year-old fossil is the missing link between man and ape as the creature had opposable thumbs, and fingernails. Read more …
The Cardiff Giant, One Of The Most Famous Hoaxes In American History
June 17, 2009 / 8605
The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous hoaxes in American history, was a 10-foot (3.0 m)-tall purported “petrified man” uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. “Stub” Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.
Giant’s creation
The Giant was the creation of a New York tobacconist named George Hull. Hull, an atheist, decided to create the giant after an argument with a fundamentalist minister named Mr. Turk about the passage in Genesis 6:4 that there were giants who once lived on earth.
The idea of a petrified man did not originate with Hull, however. In 1858 the newspaper Alta California had published a bogus letter that claimed that a prospector had been petrified when he had drunk a liquid within a geode. Some other newspapers had also published stories of supposedly petrified people. Read more …
