They are calling it the "eighth wonder of the world," a nearly complete 47-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a lemur monkey that researchers believe will be able to link humans to other primates. Scientists have been secretively studying the 1-foot-9-inch female for two years.

Creationists can take solace in the fact that the Astrodome was also once breathlessly deemed the eighth wonder of the world, yet is now only used to house hurricane refugees.

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