Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is what they are calling this new find.
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From the CNN report
The importance of this new fossil is that for the first time all the key areas that define modern great apes are well-preserved...
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If this fossil is so similar to modern great apes, then couldn't it just be the bones of a modern great ape? (That lived 13 million years ago?)
And you're telling me that one single fossil will enable scientists to add a whole new species to the 'evolutionary tree' and fill in a missing link? Even if this fossil is unique, could it possibly be that the fossil is one of a deformed animal - perhaps one that had suffered from arthritis or a degenerative bone disease?
IMHO, the 'implications' scientists seem to draw from these 'new discoveries' can be far fetched. It's not always an exact science, now is it?
-Z-man, one of them 'Jesus guys.'