This ancient Chinese tomb held a royal, her extinct ape — and a warning

Ben Guarino

A long-forgotten species of ape has been found buried in a 2,300-year-old tomb. It's a type of gibbon, which scientists named Junzi imperialis. Gibbons are the smallest apes, chatty and as lanky-limbed as Kermit the Frog. They're also more closely related to humans than they are to any monkey. And humans, the scientists say, are the likely agents of these gibbons' extinction.............Turvey scanned the gibbon bones and sent the images to Chatterjee. With their students, the scientists began to pick apart the gibbon's features. Their analysis “revealed it to be significantly different from living gibbons,” Chatterjee said. All of these features combined, the authors say, make a strong case that the gibbon is not just a new species but a new genus. (A genus, you'll recall, ranks above a species — it's the Homo in Homo sapiens.)

Living gibbons are split into 20 species over four genera. What's more critical, in Garber's mind, is the gibbon's extinction………To Read More…..

My Take - Okay, they're predicting doom again. Thirty years has passed since Dr. Hanson told Congress and the world we had less than thirty years to fix Anthropogenic Global Warming or we were doomed. One thing we need to understand is when these "experts" spout doom and gloom it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Rachel Carson predicted everyone was going to contract cancer due to pesticides and chemicals in general. That didn't happen either. The other thing we need to understand is extinction is the rule not the exception. Over 95% of all species that's ever lived have gone extinct. We're told the world is so biologically interconnected that the loss of one species will doom the world.  Baloney!  Name one disaster that occurred when this ape went extinct. You can't because there wasn't one.  We didn't even know it existed before this their loss was so meaningless- and yet - we're still here. For that matter, name one disaster that was ever created by the loss of any of the millions of species that's ceased to exist. You can't! Why? Because there wasn't any. Environmental disasters create extinctions. Extinctions don't create environmental disasters.

As for mankind being responsible ...... how do they know that? They don't! That's why they weasel word that position by saying humans are "likely" responsible. So why did they say that? They have no evidence. But just like Pavlov's dogs they only have preconditioned responses created by group think in that echo chamber of arrogant self righteous head nodders known as academia.