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more about #primates Quilt: Eat your heart out PETA! more » J_Frank_Parnell: All your banana are belong to us. more » Cribbage Left: 520 days? Didn't we just lab-test a VASIMR that can make a one-way trip in like 39 days? There's no reason not to wait a little while while the techno... more » Spider Sister: PETA's going to be pissed. more » geesejuggler: And thus was the humble origins of Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys! more » Im_your_Huckleberry: Just wait until they get back. more » pfc.joker: Not to sound crass, but why not send terminal health humans or maybe ... hell volunteers... one way trip or not - there has to be someone sitting ther... more » OCEntertainment: more » hamshank: if they go so far as to develop robots smart enough to feed and clean up after a monkey, they should just send the robots, and a radiation detector. more » Hamslicer: Hello Malevolent Mutant Martian Monkey Men ... have a banana? more » LittleDragon: If we send monkeys to mars before humans, I'll riot. I don't care if I have to do it alone. I will make such a nuisance of my self that they will send... more » ManchuCandidate: So either at the end of this mission we're going to have a bunch of dead monkeys or a bunch of pissed off hyper intelligent monkeys. more » marko_ramius: Umm, how exactly does this qualify as 'the missing link'? I see a long tail, five digits on the hands and feet -- nothing that differs greatly from th... more » Pope John Peeps II: along with the digestive tract that allowed researchers to discover the last meal that it ingested - fruits and leaves. If it's MY ancestor, that sent... more » AldoraGreel: Or, God buried her there to test us. And you failed. Shameful. I shall go back to sticking my thumbs in my ears now. My thumbs, of course, which di... more » capntim: i'm sorry did you say something science? because i was just going on about how there's no examples of transitional forms, and will continue saying it more » -
#martianmonkeys
Monkeys May Be the First Primates Headed to Mars
Monkeys made it into space before humans ever broke the atmosphere, and now they might beat us to Mars. Russia is considering a program to train monkeys to work with robots for the long flight to Mars. More » -
#evolution
47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans
Meet Ida, the 47 million year old fossil who may represent one of our earliest known ancestors. She's probably the most complete primate fossil ever discovered, and she explains where humans (and lemurs) come from. More »
