The Tiktaalik has a flat head with eyes positioned on top (Image: Ted Daeschler)everyone knows the world is only a couple of thousand years old. everyone knows there is NO such thing as evolution! write a letter to this paper (and all of the other papers -too numerous to mention- that are carrying this story. the truth MUST be told.)
Arctic fossils mark move to land
By Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter
Fossil animals found in Arctic Canada provide a snapshot of fish evolving into land animals, scientists say.
The finds are giving researchers a fascinating insight into this key stage in the evolution of life on Earth.
US palaeontologists have published details of the fossil "missing links" in the prestigious journal Nature.
The 383 million-year-old specimens are described as crocodile-like animals with fins instead of limbs that probably lived in shallow water.
'Missing link'
Before these finds, palaeontologists knew that lobe-finned fishes evolved into land-living creatures during the Devonian Period.
But fossil records showed a gap between Panderichthys, a fish that lived about 385 million years ago which shows early signs of evolving land-friendly features, and Acanthostega, the earliest known tetrapod (four-limbed land-living animals) dating from about 365 million years ago. ........
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true story time again:
I do some contract work building exhibits for Science Museums and we are given careful instructions on how to deal with patrons when we have to do installations and such during business hours.
I don't always listen, and neither does my good friend, Dan.
One day while looking at a beautiful graphic image of a T-Rex on the wall, a gentleman in flannel shirt (nothing against flannel - I wear them) and trucker cap (again, I'm guilty as well) with a belly the size of a keg (umm, that's not me) stared intensely at the photo. My good friend, Dan, sauntered up conspiratorially and softly said, "You know, that's one of the best photographs there is of a T-Rex in the wild."
"No shit?" the man asked, agape.
"Yup, I know the photographer."
Then, in a booming voice echoing through the entire Natural History wing, the man yelled to his wife, "Hey Martha, you gotta see this!"
We barely made it out of the hall before the laughing fit crippled us both.
Oh, how that relates? There are a lot of scary, anti-evolution wingnuts who come through and try to argue with the staff about dinosaurs and such. I've watched them get bothered, lathering at the mouth and angrier than hell, while the poor curators just have to let them quote bible and preacher.
It's fun to mess with them a bit in return.
could have been the man was JUST PLAIN ummmmmmmmm how do i say this....uneducated????? i know some people believe (like me for example) dinos and people shared the earth at the same time (too much flintstones)
IF you and dan are EVER in hartford doing something like the children's museum (it's science based i think) DRINKS ARE ON ME (and i'm serious). you're MY kind!
rick, what the hell is going on with your blog?
there seems to have been a technical issue when Rich tried to upgrade it.
I'm staying out of it . . . too many cooks in the kitchen already.
rick, whew
looks like it's back up an runnin' like the finely honed piece of machinery it is
rick, whew
looks like it's back up an runnin' like the finely honed piece of machinery it is
yup . . . all the history is gone . . . but that's why I keep a backup of all posts on my computer.
glad you have a back up! i know better and i still rarely back things up (i've been burned before. laptop exploding and all). however, i DID just order myself one of the flash memory things. it should be here today or monday. when it comes i'll back stuff up. i do have some stuff on disks. pictures and music. i do have to be more careful
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