Octubre 20, 2005
Finally Bolivia Wins One!
They took away all of the silver from Potosi. They can keep our access to the sea. We'll even let them have all of our gas reserves. But I wont stand for them taking our monkey fossils.
Eight rare fossils of an extinct monkey considered the oldest ever found in South America, have been returned to Bolivia by Japan.
The fossils, borrowed by a Japanese researcher 10 years ago, have been in storage at Kyoto University.
The monkey was a small tree-borne primate, Branisella Boliviana, which lived in South America roughly 26.5 million years ago, and grew to just 14 centimetres.
Finally, there's justice in this world.
Posted by eduardo at Octubre 20, 2005 09:47 AM
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It's globalization man. You just have to accept that multi-national corporations will extract rare monkey fossils from Bolivia. Bolivia starts restricting monkey fossil exportation and the next thing you know Hugo, Fidel and Evo will be dancing their socialist coca dance in La Paz. And after that, nuclear weapons pointed at the US. Is that what you want?
Posted by: boz at Octubre 20, 2005 12:33 PM