A 47,000,000-year-old skeleton.

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A 47,000,000-year-old skeleton that could be the "great-great-great aunt" of modern man recently was unveiled at New York's American Museum of Natural History. About the size of a small cat, this "best-ever preserved primate fossil" looks to be an important link in human evolution. Named "Ida" after the daughter of one of the researchers who tracked it down, this 20-inch-long lemur monkey replaces 3,000,000-year-old "Lucy" as the oldest primate fossil--and Ida is 95% complete; Lucy, 40%. Ida...