http://www.google.com/logos/missinglink.gif

looks... weird.

It has been discovered in... 1983! in Germany.

The presentation of this "missing link" this week is a BIG ad for a TV show to be aired soon on History Chanel about that story.

What's so special about this day, and this year?

Anyone knows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinius_masillae

and this one:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html

The search string of the Doodle of the day is
http://www.google.com/search?q=missing+link+found&ct=missinglink&oi=ddle

And the first hit goes to
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html
via News search.

A picture to share:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/images/090519-missing-link-found_big.jpg