Celebrate Memorial Day By Watching The History Channel... Hype A Lemur-Monkey?

At last my plans for this weekend are made!
Forget the troops who died to keep us free.
Forget the barbecues in sun and shade.
The most important date IN HISTORY
Is Monday, when the Hist'ry Channel airs
Its lemur-monkey-Ida-fossil show -
Or so the pre-hype for "The Link" declares.
It takes chutzpah to make that claim, I know.
But hype is what this fossil's all about.
Carl Zimmer made the apt comparison
'Tween Ida hype and that for films not out:
Publicity inflates what critics shun.
But just in case don't let the critics view
The product ere the public; that won't do!

If Ida Known She Was Harmless, Ida Fossilized Her Myself!

Of Darwin's posse, I count myself one.

So I am pleased that our new missing link

A fossil we call Ida, just for fun,

Might bear his name if we all stay in sync.

Darwinius cries out sometime to be

A genus. Per Carl Zimmer, there's debate

Among taxonomists if something we

Have only named online can really rate

As nomenclature in the lit'rature.

I'm also much amused that certain folk

Are up in arms and newly insecure;

That this dead primate-lemur can provoke

A new round of bad monkey's uncle japes.

We're made out of spare ribs, not out of apes!

A New Reason To Care About The Wooly Bear

O! Pyrrharctia isabella (known
To schoolkids, fondly, as the Wooly Bear,
For its appearance ere it's fully grown
Into a moth)! This caterpillar's rare
Skill set, while not including future-sight
Into how bad the winter's going to be,
Is greater than we thought! That it can fight
Off freezin' through that season, we agree,
Is cool. Now per Carl Zimmer's column, Loom,
An infestation of cater-cooties
Is something they can live through; they consume,
And thereby press into diff'rent duties,
Some plants containing poisons, which become
Their medicine, and suddenly taste - yum!