You'll be seeing a lot of media hype about a new paper, Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology. Here's some perspective, A Discovery That Will Change Everything (!!!) ... Or Not and There is no missing link. Bora has just about every commentary on this paper in his link list....
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Any other fans of the Phasmatodea out there? For years, we kept a collection of stick insects — they are extremely easy to raise, and although they aren't exactly dynamos of activity, they're weird enough to be entertaining — and so I perk up when I notice a paper on them.
A crushed Adapoid from the Messel...not exactly earth-shattering but certainly a cool find.
The discovery about the precursors to the "RNA world" by that Manchester chemist is probably more worthy of the over-hyped headlines.