"Ida" (AP Photo/ A & E Television Luis Marin)
Barely five hours have passed since the groundbreaking announcement, which stunned the scientific community, of the 47 million year-old fossil discovered in Messel Pit, Germany that serves to bolster Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
The compelling story of this discovery and the scientific tests surrounding it comes to The History Channel as a two-hour documentary – The Link.
According to the press release and joint announcement made in New York by the University of Oslo and The Senckenberg Research Institute, the fossil, known as “Ida” is a transitional species that exhibits characteristics from the “very primitive non-human evolutionary line of prosimians, such as lemurs, but is more related to the human evolutionary line of anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans” – placing Ida at the very base of anthropoid evolution – “when primates were first developing features that would evolve into our own.”
Over the last two years, a global team of scientists, headed by renowned fossil expert from the University of Oslo History Museum, Dr. Jorn Hurum, studied Ida and documented the findings in a research paper released this morning.
The entire scientific process was also recorded on film by award-winning Atlantic Productions, who had exclusive access to Ida and the scientific team that examined her.
Filmed in High Definition on locations in Europe, America and Africa, the documentary incorporates state of the art graphics along with the careful recording of the scientific techniques that provide a compelling presentation, which is certain to ignite controversy.
Sir David Attenborough, Broadcaster/Naturalist speaks of the implications of this astounding scientific find.
The Link, is the History Channel’s “Editor’s Pick” for Monday, May 25, 2009, 9:00 p.m. Eastern/8:00 p.m. Central
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