Even evolutionary paleontologists are largely convinced that the media’s recent promotion of a new “missing link” is a monumental overstatement. There is little doubt that the hype surrounding the fossilized lemur “Ida” is primarily bluff and bluster.¹ But her media campaign may actually be a more significant story than the fossil itself.

Charles Darwin attempted to explain the origin of living organisms in On the Origin of Species, published in 1859.

by Brian Thomas, M.S., and Frank Sherwin, M.A.*

Scientists and media outlets around the world are praising "Ida," the primate fossil hailed as the long-sought-after "missing link" in the human evolutionary theory.

by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D., and Brian Thomas, M.S.*

A recent TV show has proposed the possibility that dinosaurs may walk the earth again someday as a result of man’s ingenuity.