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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/22/2007 : 05:18:47
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I'll let the article speak for itself:
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The fossil of an ancient amphibious reptile with a crocodile's body and a fish's tail has been unearthed in Oregon. Scientists believe the creature's remains were transported by geologic processes nearly 5,000 miles away from where it originally died more than 100 million years ago.
Way cool, if you ask me..... I'll be looking for followups.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 03/22/2007 : 11:06:11 [Permalink]
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Yet another transitional fossil.
And yes, it is very cool 
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 11:17:37 [Permalink]
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| Its about 6.7cool, when are they going to stop finding more gaps in the fossil record? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 12:20:49 [Permalink]
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Very damned cool. I suppose these fellers had to re-evolve that fishy tail as they became more aquatic than their immediate crocodilian ancestors? Another example of how evolution has no plan, no particular direction, except toward survival.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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How cool is THIS....?
