Anthropologists have discovered fossils from two species of ``teeny, tiny primates,'' thumb-sized creatures smaller than any other known primate on the family tree leading to monkeys, apes and humans.

Based on what?  They state that as FACT, but what FACT?  The Bible tells it differently in the Book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2.

``This discovery reinvents our definition of what the primate order is all about and how it arose,'' said Richard Stucky, curator at the Denver Museum of Natural History.

It must be hard being believing in evolution - since it is so silly - even finding little animal bones force you to "reinvent" your beliefs and "facts".  For me, the Bible never changes, and neither does God.

The fossilized foot bones, each about the size of a grain of rice, were sifted from tons of muddy rubbish at a limestone mine in eastern China. About 45 million years ago, the fragile primates lived in a rain forest, feeding on insects and sap.

There they go again!  45 million years!?  They just use that number because it sounds good.  There is no evidence that this world has been around much more than 10 thousand years.  Oh!  And I love the little touch of "knowing" what it eats - based ONLY on fossilized FOOT bones!  HA!

At one-third of an ounce - the weight of a couple of pencils - the smaller of the two is dwarfed by the 1-ounce Madagascar mouse lemur, the smallest known primate alive today.

Why is it scientists never bother to assume that these could be just SMALLER or BABY versions of current known animals.  I'll tell you why.  They LOVE being able to "discover" NEW species.  Please, get off the ego trip and try some science.

Scientists from Northern Illinois, Northwestern and Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences detail the species in this week's Journal of Human Evolution.

In a separate article in the journal Nature, the group reported more fossils from a previously discovered third primate called Eosimias centennicus. They had discovered its teeth and jaws in the mid 1990s. Now they have ankle bones, which they say backs up their controversial claim that Eosimias is an early ancestor of humans.

That's not a far stretch of the imagination - since they also say that monkeys are early ancestors of humans, too.  Right!  Again, the Bible tells it differently!

Eosimias and the two new tiny species all lived together around the time when lower primates split from the higher primates. Lower primates include lemurs. Higher primates include humans. The split happened 40 million to 50 million years ago.

Apparently, they believe that the more detailed the Fairy Tale, the more people will believe in it!  Again - where did those huge numbers come from?

At 3 ounces, Eosimias was larger than the tiny species, which have not been named.

How about "Fred"?  ;-D

``Nobody would have believed that as recently as 45 million years ago, our ancestors were about the size of a shrew,'' Beard said.

Okay, now they are making sense - because, I sure don't believe it, either! :-)

Unlike modern higher primates, which are social and move about in the daytime, these creatures' tiny size would have forced them to hide during the day and feed at night.

Come on!  God calls this kind of made-up story a LIE.  Plain and simple.

The tiny species are the smallest of 12 to 16 species of little primates found at the Chinese mine.

Did I say these guys LOVE to "discover" new species?  Well, they do!

But the evidence of Eosimias' status as a higher primate is still not conclusive. Richmond said it is possible Eosimias was a lower primate that evolved a few characteristics similar to higher primates.

Since when have evolutionists cared about "conclusive" evidence?

Stucky is convinced, calling it ``significant, additional evidence'' that Eosimias is a higher primate.

Let's see, they only have a few fossilized foot bones which they admit is non-conclusive evidence - yet, good 'ol Stucky is CONVINCED? Wow! THAT is FAITH!