The real news here is that a fossil of a transitional species was so well preserved. We pretty much knew what it would look like because we knew what came before it and what came after it. Every time you fill in a gap you create two more. The science is being lost in the hype of a movie and a book about it. Sky News actually said it finally proved Darwin's theory of evolution, as if 150 years of research were inconclusive (dear biologists, fuck you, your work up to now has been meaningless.) Archaeopteryx was a significant missing link because it was the conclusive proof of a link between dinosaurs and birds. Ida is a transitional species that's more like getting excited over finding a missing puzzle piece when you already know what the puzzle looks like. We knew there was a link because of DNA similarities and because everything we already knew showed that if you went back far enough, there was an evolutionary split. The hype over this is diluting the science.
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