Messel comprep

 

complete report

 

 

 

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Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu at dctp.tv

German-French translated TV interview at

http://www.dctp.tv/?deep=0,11,148,0

 

Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu at Special4u

 

 

 

 

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Search keywords as Ida, Darwinius, Darmstadt...

 

 

 

“The Missing Link?”

 

 

 

For selected evolution images, click here

 

On these pictures, which one is:

 

The coelacanth Ida, the “Missing Link”? Primates

 

Cro Magnon Humans The Junk King A digitarian

 

 

 

 

Also some other ancestors in that field:

 

Jussieu 1686, several until 1853, Buffon 1707 1788,

 

Linné 1707 1778, Daubenton 1716 1800, Lavoisier 1743 1794,

 

Lamarck 1744 1829, Lacépède 1756 1825,

 

Cuvier 1769, two of them until 1838, more

 

Darwin 1809 1882, Mendel 1822 1884,  

 

 

 

 

Biology Biodiversity Species Biomass

 

Socio Bio Green Wilson EP HE HBE Genetics

 

 

 

 

EVOLUTION at Google

 

EVOLUTION at Wiki

 

DARWIN EVOLUTION at YT

 

EVOLUTION explained to Americans.

Nearly 2/3rds of US population is “creationist”.

In Europe, the majority is largely “evolutionist”,

in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France... 80%

or more, Japan 78%... Among the scientific

educated people, 95% in the US, more than

99% in Europe, accept evolution.

 

 

 

 

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to read more about the “Prehistoric Venuses”

 

 

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Paleontology

 

Chilhac Atapuerca Tautavel

 

Heidelberg Mauer Steinheim Neanderthal

 

 

 

Euro MAN Sorciers Hohle Fels

 

Euro VENUS Willendorf

 

 

 

CRO-MAGNON LASCAUX, France

 

About a Dream by Michel Jouvet

 

 

 

Jelisejevitsjij-Ukraine Mezyn in der Ukraine

 

Mezyn Mezin map Novgorod-Severskly, Shostka map Mezin

 

 

 

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Messel

 

 

http://www.geo-naturpark.net/daten/geokids/messel.php

 

 

Geokids-Station: Weltnaturerbe Grube Massel

Hier geht es zum Fragebogen.

 

 

Darmstadt-Messeler

 

 

For a map of the Messeler Park, click here

 

 

Ausschnitt aus der Naturpark-Wanderkarte 1:20 000 Nr.14

Darmstadt-Messeler Hügelland

ISBN 3-89446-316-3

 

 

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Some German explanation:

Messel town museum

Fossilien- und Heimatmuseum Messel: Im alten Rathaus der

unmittelbar benachbarten Gemeinde Messel werden in einer

modernen und besucherfreundlichen Ausstellung die

Bergbaugeschichte der Grube und originale Fossilien gezeigt.

 

Museum of Hessen in Darmstadt

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt: In der Geologischen

Abteilung im ersten Stock werden herausragende Fossilien mit

einem Diorama der Grube zur Zeit des Eozäns in Verbindung

gebracht. Darin findet sich auch die Rekonstruktion des in

Messel gefundenen pferdeartigen Propalaeotherium.

 

 

Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt

Naturmuseum Senckenberg: In Frankfurt am Main können sich

Besucher eine sehr umfangreiche wissenschaftliche Ausstellung

mit spektakulären Funden ansehen. Insbesondere neuere

Verfahren der Präparation sind ausgestellt.

 

Für 2010 ist ein Besuchs- und Informationsmuseum geplant.

Es soll ein architektonisch von der Schichtung des Ölschiefers

abgeleitetes Gebäude werden, das von außen hochmodern und

künstlerisch beeindruckt.

Jährlich werden rund 100.000 Besucher erwartet.

 

 

 

 

Changes of Tertiary insect biodiversity exemplified with insects

from the Eocene Fossillagerstätte Grube Messel, Germany

(current DFG-Project by Prof. J. Rust, Bonn)

 

The Eocene Fossillagerstätte Grube Messel is famous for its

excellently preserved vertebrate fossils. It is largely unknown

that there are also extensive collections of insect fossils.

The outstanding preservation of these insects is the basis for

the analysis of the former terrestrial-lacustrine ecosystem that

existed 47 million years ago.

Detailed comparisons between the insect faunas of different

fossil sites allow the reconstruction of temporal and spatial

patterns of biodiversity of the insects.

 

 

For more photos of the Grube Messel, click here

 

 

The Grube Messel in 2003 cooperation in this project:

 

The terrestrial fauna and flora of the Insect Bed, Isle of Wight:

interpreting the climate near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary

(current INTAS Project 03-51-4367 by Dr. A. Ross, London)

 

Limnology of Tertiary Lake Messel:

Reconstruction of food webs

(completed DFG-Projekt by Dr. G. Richter, Frankfurt/M.)

 

Systematics and palaeoecology of insects from the

Oligocene Fossillagerstätte Enspel, Germany

(completed DFG-Projekt by Dr. G. Tröster, Göttingen)

 

 

 

 

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/missing_

link_darwinius_masillae_transitional_fossil_has_humanlike_

nails_and_opposable_big_toes

 

The discovery was made at Grube Messel, near Darmstadt

 

 

 

 

Missing Link? Darwinius Masillae Transitional Fossil

Has Human-Like Nails And Opposable Big Toes

 

By News Staff May 19th 2009

 

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All

 

 

It's always best not to go overboard but the discovery of

Darwinius masillae is pretty darn exciting, because it represents

the most complete fossil primate ever found; the skeleton,

soft body outline and even the stomach contents.

 

It is phylogenetically terrific. Or not. In any new claim like this,

there will be doubts.

 

The discovery was made at Grube Messel, near Darmstadt,

Germany, where primates are rare and only fragmentary

specimens had been located before.

 

Because it was collected privately and sold in two parts,

it is only now that its significance is known. It's phylogenetically

intriguing because of the absence of a toilet claw and a

toothcomb.

 

Darwinius masillae does have what are described as human-like

nails and opposable big toes, which places this fossil near the

beginning of human evolution.

 

Darwinius masillae is not simply a lemur fossil but instead part

of Adapoidea, a larger group of primates – evidence of the early

haplorhine diversification. In layman terms, this was a lemur-monkey,

with features of both groups.

 

Darwinius masillae was a female that probably died in her first year

of life.

 

 

 

For radiographs of Darwinius masillae, click here.

 

 

 

Radiographs of Darwinius masillae.  Relative positions and

museum numbers as in Figure 1. Radiographs show that all

of plate A is genuine, while cranium, thorax, upper arms (part 1),

and lumbus, pelvis, base of tail, and upper legs (part 2) of plate B

are genuine. From Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J,

Hurum JH, von Koenigswald W, et al. (2009)

Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of

Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology.

PLoS ONE 4(5): e5723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

 

 

So is this a Rosetta Stone of evolutionary biology?

It will certainly be hyped a lot more than that but it may be

warranted. It's difficult to imagine studies of Eocene-Oligocene

primates that won't reference this discovery.

 

Basically it is a lemur monkey that is 'incomplete' but very close –

a true transitional fossil.  Biologists hate the term 'missing link'

because it isn't very scientific but this is a case where it may be apt.

It's hard to imagine that a female monkey under 2 feet tall discovered

25 years ago could accomplish all that, but after two years of study,

the researchers are confident in their results.

 

Modern primates began to appear about 55 million years ago,

at the beginning of the Eocene epoch, in two super families,

Arsioidea and Adapoidea.   Though rare in Messel,

the maar lake deposit turned out to be an ideal location

because it was a paratropical Eocene rain forest.

 

From what can be determined, the fossil was discovered

in 1983 and part of it basically hung on a collector's wall

for nearly 20 years while another part was purchased by

the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in 1991.  In 2007 they were

reconciled and work began using X-radiography and

micro-computerized tomography.

 

 

 

For radiographs and hands drawings, click here.

 

 

 

http://www.dctp.tv/?deep=0,11,148,0

German-French interview of

Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu at dctp.tv

 

Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu at Special4u

 

 

 

 

http://knuff.se/u/6adf5d

 

 

 

 

http://blog.lindenfors.se/?p=871

Ida är INTE länken mellan apa och människa

 

Ibland blir det fel. Idag rapporteras det i tidningarna om fossilet som

kallas Ida. I DN (skrivet av Mikael Bondesson; Karin Bojs, hann du inte

med faktakollen?), Expressen (”Hälften människa - hälften Lemur”)

och Aftonbladet (”Forskare: Nu kan vi förklara evolutionen”) rapporteras

att Ida skulle vara den felande länken mellan apa och människa.

Det finns flera fel med den rapporteringen.

 

- Ida är 47 miljoner år gammal. Människans och schimpansens senaste

gemensamma förfader levde för 5-7 miljoner år sedan. Ida levde istället i

perioden då halvaporna och de egentliga aporna separerade.

Nog så intressant! Ida verkar istället vara en väldigt tidig representant

för den linje som blev aporna.

 

Hela talet om felande länkar är fel ute. Vi har ingen aning om arten

som Ida är ett prov på var en förmoder eller en förgrening på familjeträdet.

Det enda vi vet är att arten har egenskaper som placerar henne tidigt i

apornas utveckling. Det här länkpratet får dock ligga forskaren till last

som rapporterar om fossilet. Han har till och med kallat hemsidan om

fossilet för “the Link“. Det är att spela på populärkulturella föreställningar

om hur evolutionen går till. Han borde veta bättre. Istället verkar han tro

att vetenskap och populärkultur är av samma skrot och korn:

 

“Any pop band is doing the same thing,” said Jorn H. Hurum, a scientist

at the University of Oslo who acquired the fossil and assembled the team

of scientists that studied it. “Any athlete is doing the same thing.

We have to start thinking the same way in science.”

 

Rent biologiskt är faktiskt människor fortfarande primater.

Det man letar efter är istället fossil om hur utvecklingen från

vår sista gemensamma förfader med schimpanserna gick till.

 

Där finns numera tusentals fossil att undersöka.

Det intressantaste (tycker jag) är hur många arter människor/apor

som fanns under den utvecklingspreioden. Att vi är ensamma

mäniskor på jorden nu är en historisk tillfällighet.

 

Svenska Dagbladet fick rapporteringen någorlunda rätt.

 

 

 

 

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/artikel_2923449.svd

Viktig del i evolution hittad

 

Publicerad 19 maj 2009, i web tidningen Fredag 22 maj 2009

 

Apskelettet "Ida" beskrivs av forskarna vid Naturhistorisk museum

i Oslo som hälften lemur och hälften människa. Enligt norska NTB

är Ida det äldsta skelett av en apa som någonsin hittats och bär på

många viktiga svar.

 

De 60 centimeter långa kvarlevorna tros nämligen vara en

saknad länk i den mänskliga utvecklingen och en viktig

pusselbit i läran om evolutionen.

Fossilet hittades redan 1983 men amatörerna som upptäckte

skelettet insåg inte dess vikt. 14 år senare köptes fossilet av

Naturhistorisk museum där många tester gjorts innan resultaten

presenterades i USA på tisdagen.

- Detta är som att hitta Noaks ark. Fossilet kommer att bli bland

dem som avbildas i läroböcker de kommande hundra åren,

säger forskningsledaren Jörn Hurum till amerikanska tv-kanalen

ABC.

Fossilets officiella namn är darwinius masillae men kallas Ida

efter Hurums snart sexåriga dotter. Enligt Hurum påminner

dock skelettet mest om Pippi Långstrumps apkompis Herr Nilsson.

 

http://www.revealingthelink.com

 

 

 

 

The complete report:

 

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005723

 

 

For a complete report with images, click here

 

 

Ida (Darwinius masillae)

 

Detta sagt så är Ida (Darwinius masillae) ett makalöst fossil.

Hon är extremt välbevarad med intakt skelett, fossiliserade

matrester kvar i magen och till och med märken av päls och

muskler runt kroppen. Hon är 47 miljoner år gammal och

representerar en ögonblicksbild från en viktig del i primaternas

evolution, nämligen då strepsirhini och haplorhini separerade.

Dock kanske den exakta placeringen i primaternas släktträd

inte är så säker som forskarna som analyserat henne gör gällande

 

Publicerad: 20 maj, 2009 i Vetenskap.

 

 

For image, click here

 

 

http://coffeeandsci.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/darwinius-masillae

 

Darwinius masillae

Mai 19, 2009 par Oldcola

Il est tout mignon ce petit !

Il semble que c’est un petit non pas seulement par la taille

mais aussi par l’âge.

Pour en savoir un peu plus sur Darwinius masillae,

le papier (d’où vient la photo ci-dessus,

e Franzen et al. en Open Access :

 

Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J, Hurum JH,

von Koenigswald W, et al. (2009)

Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology.

 

PLoS ONE 4(5): e5723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

 

Background

The best European locality for complete Eocene mammal

skeletons is Grube Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany.

Although the site was surrounded by a para-tropical rain forest

in the Eocene, primates are remarkably rare there, and only

eight fragmentary specimens were known until now.

Messel has now yielded a full primate skeleton.

The specimen has an unusual history: it was privately collected

and sold in two parts, with only the lesser part previously known.

The second part, which has just come to light, shows the skeleton

to be the most complete primate known in the fossil record.

Methodology/Principal Findings

We describe the morphology and investigate the paleobiology

of the skeleton. The specimen is described as Darwinius masillae

n.gen. n.sp. belonging to the Cercamoniinae.

Because the skeleton is lightly crushed and bones cannot be

handled individually, imaging studies are of particular importance.

Skull radiography shows a host of teeth developing within the

juvenile face. Investigation of growth and proportion suggest

that the individual was a weaned and independent-feeding

female that died in her first year of life, and might have attained

a body weight of 650–900 g had she lived to adulthood.

She was an agile, nail-bearing, generalized arboreal quadruped

living above the floor of the Messel rain forest.

Conclusions/Significance

Darwinius masillae represents the most complete fossil primate

ever found, including both skeleton, soft body outline and contents

of the digestive tract. Study of all these features allows a fairly

complete reconstruction of life history, locomotion, and diet.

Any future study of Eocene-Oligocene primates should benefit

from information preserved in the Darwinius holotype.

Of particular importance to phylogenetic studies, the absence

of a toilet claw and a toothcomb demonstrates that Darwinius

masillae is not simply a fossil lemur, but part of a larger group

of primates, Adapoidea, representative of the early haplorhine

diversification.

 

 

 

 

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Darwinius masillae - Ida

Missing Link / earliest ancestor fossil

 

The story of a possible "earliest ancestor / missing link

fossil discovery", of an extinct species of Adapid that has

been given the scientific name Darwinius masillae,

(to celebrate Messel, her place of origin, and the bicentenary

of the birth of Charles Darwin), and also the familiar name

"Ida" after the young daughter of one of the team leaders,

has become the subject of a ninety-minute-long special

TV production hosted by the well-known natural history

broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

 

The discovery of this possible - earliest ancestor - fossil

was made at the Messel Shale Pit, (a former quarry!), near

Darmstadt, and some 35 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main,

Germany, which was already widely famous for its regular

yield of interesting fossils, (including mini-horses, bats,

a possible anteater and a tapir), - famous enough to have

been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in

December, 1995.

 

Half of the Darwinius masillae fossil was found in 1983

but it was only when the rest of the fossil skeleton was

discovered in 2008 that scientists realised its importance.

The ground-breaking research was only possible after

Norway’s National History Museum managed to buy the

earliest, "1983", portion of the fossil from a private collector

 

Dr. Jørn H. Hurum, a paleontologist at the University of Oslo

and a leader of the research, subsequently arranged for a

team of German and American scientists to study the bones

with CT (i.e. Computed Tomography) imaging and other

advanced technologies.

 

Using contemporary CT imaging technology it is possible

to "virtually" cut fossils into digital slices by running them

through a supercharged CT scanner, that resembles a

medical CAT scanner but has much more power available

for image capture. It is currently possible obtain somewhere

in the region of 400 "digital slices" across a depth equivalent

to the head of a pin - and in much finer details than medical

CAT scans, as radiation exposure is not an issue with animal

remains.

 

A lemur jumping between tree branches

 

Adapids, or the Adapidae, are a now extinct family of

lemur-like creatures related to early primates.

 

The new Adapid fossil discovery from Messel Shale Pit

is that of a nearly complete specimen of a young female

Adapid that would have weighed just 0.90-0.95 kg.,

or 2lb, when fully grown. This young Adapid was less

than a year old but had been weaned and had developing

teeth.

 

 

For the Shale Pit, click here.

 

 

The Messel Shale Pit is believed to have begun its existence

as a volcanic caldera lake in which billions of algae bloomed

and the expiry of these billions of algae tended to produce

oxygen-poor conditions in the lower levels of the lake within

which the remains of deceased animals birds and plants could

be very slowly fossilised and without being disturbed by disruptive

predators or scavengers.

 

With some specimens, the bodies are surrounded by a so called

Hautschatten ('skin shadow').

 

This dark area preserves impressions of plumage on birds and

the individual hairs of mammals. The wing membranes and details

of external ears are known from bats.

 

The Darwinius masillae fossil has been described as the “most

complete fossil primate ever discovered,” lacks only the lower

left limb, and appears to exhibit an important primate attribute

in the form of opposable big toes and thumbs.

 

Due to the special conditions prevailing at Messel impressions

of the animals fur and of its soft body outline are discernable –

the remains of its last meal – comprising fruit and leaves - have

been detected in the stomach cavity.

 

The completeness of this fossil has allowed paleontologists to

gain new insights into the Adapid family.

 

The researches have concluded that this fossil was of a creature

that was "not simply a lemur" and that its discovery "is going to

advance our knowledge of evolution".

 

Darwinius masillae differs from lemurs in two key ways - it does

not possess the "toothcomb" set of lower front teeth lemurs use

to groom fur or the "toilet claws" on the hind feet the lemur family

tend to use for scratching leading the researchers to depict it as

having been a "Lemur-Monkey".

 

This sketched representation of Ida, and her kind, is taken from

the report published by the research team on the Public Library of

Science web site.

 

The image is Fig. S6 of the PLoS ONE article, published under the

Creative Commons Attribution License; any reuse should cite the

authors and journal. Full citation details here

 

After two years of secretive preparation full details of the project

that became the Darwinius masillae study were given at a fanfare

launch at the academically prestigious American Museum of Natural

History on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, arrangements also having been

put in place for an associated TV special, entitled "Uncovering our

earliest ancestor - The Link", to be rolled out world-wide.

 

The project apparently had its origins in December, 2006, at a mineral

and fossil fair in Hamburg where Dr. Hurum got into conversation with

a private fossil dealer named Thomas Perner who was already known

to him and who, over fruity vodka drinks with umbrellas, showed him a

few photographs of the fossil, which had been found at Messel Pit in

1983 and had subsequently lain in a drawer in the house of a German

collector. Herr Perner discreetly advised Dr. Hurum that the fossil had

already been quietly "on the market" for some six months at an asking

price of, wait for it, $1,000,000.

 

Two prominent German museums had already been approached but

had baulked at this asking price for a fossil of unproven merit.

 

Dr. Hurum was so excited by what he saw in this picture, ("I knew that

the dealer had a world sensation in his hands"), that he reportedly “could

not sleep for two nights, just thinking about this specimen.”

Back home in Norway Dr. Hurum reported news of this extra-ordinary

fossil and equally extra-ordinary asking price to his colleagues.

Somewhat unexpectedly funds were made available such that Dr. Hurum

was able to enter into negotiations leading to the purchase of the fossil.

 

Referring to an already celebrated missing link fossil which was purchased

by a museum London in 1861, (just two years after the publication of

Darwin's Origin of Species), and provided evidence of Dinosaur-Era life

forms becoming adapted into bird-like life forms, - Dr. Hurum is on record

as stating:-

 

“I realized at first it’s a primate. It just screams primate: opposable

big toes and thumbs, no evidence of claws. This is like the Archaeopteryx

of primate evolution.”

It would seem that this extraordinary fossil “is important in being exceptionally

well preserved and providing a much more complete understanding of the

paleobiology” of a primate from the Eocene (tr. "Dawn of the Present")

period.

 

A bone in Ida's ankle called the talus is shaped like that members of our own,

Anthropoid, branch of the primates. Ida's nail-bearing fingers and toes also

confirm her to having been a primate. So the researchers believe she may be

on our evolutionary line dating from just after the split with the lemurs and

that this fossil is from "a transitional species showing characteristics from both

the non-human (prosimians and lemurs) and human (anthropoids, monkeys,

apes and man) evolutionary lines," and that it follows from this that Darwinius

masillae could actually be from a “stem group” from which higher primates

evolved.

 

Whilst the research team involved state that, "we are not advocating that here,

nor do we consider either Darwinius or adapoids to be anthropoids”,

Dr. Philip Gingerich, a leading American primate specialist based at the

University of Michigan, president of the American Paleontological Society

and co-author of the Darwinius masillae study, went so far as to state that:-

“This discovery brings a forgotten group into focus as a possible

ancestor of higher primates.”

 

 

 

 

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Thomas Malthus Essay on Population

 

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Thomas Henry Huxley Darwin's Bulldog

 

 

 

 

In May 2009 the Ida fossil skeleton was give an ambitious PR launch as

the missing link to our earliest ancestors and as the "Rosetta Stone" of

Human Evolution. Some scientists meanwhile see her as being more of

a great-great-great aunt than a great-great-great grandmother.

Has our earliest ancestor been identified?

 

A particularly important clue may arise from the very completeness

of this fossil if researchers are ultimately able to discern whether or

not this fossil was of a creature that had a "wet" nose.

Modern primates are divided into two suborders: the strepsirrhines,

or “wet-nosed” primates, include lemurs, bushbabies and lorises,

while the haplorrhines or “dry-nosed” primates include monkeys,

apes and humans.

 

The Faith versus Reason Debate

 

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whose flower and fruitage is the world..."

 

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The Public Library of Science hosted research article

originally available on the PloS ONE web site at:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005723

 

Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J, Hurum JH,

von Koenigswald W, et al. 2009

Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of

Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology.

PLoS ONE 4(5): e5723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

 

 

For a photo of Brian Switek, click here.

 

 

Brian Switek is by June 2, 2009 a science writer who focuses

on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science.

He also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.

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For Ida’s mouth, click here.

 

 

A scan of Ida's mouth showing milk teeth, permanent teeth, and

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Darwinius masilae at YT

 

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