| 04 Jun 2006 09:36 pm |
69 Rep: 15  Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 11,127 OFFLINE | Fish Out of Water
New fossils of fish with limblike fins excavated from artic Canada now serve as a missing of evolution from water onto land. Three nearly complete specimans of a flattened, alligator-like fish species dubbed Tiktaalik roseae posses the scales, fins, snout, and lower jaw of a fish, but they have the ribs, neck, skull, wrists, and finger-like bones of a land animal. Scientists had to dig to up to three meter-long fossils put from icy rock in polar bear country, but they say the tundera resembled a subtrobpical version of today’s Mississippi River delta when the fish were alive some 375 million years ago. The sharp-toothed predator’s overlapping ribs wouold have produced a stiff trunk not required by fish buoyed up by the water, suggesting that it lived in the shallows, perhaps with excursions onto the land, the researchers write in the April 6 Nature.
-Charles Q. Choi
Scientific American: June 2006; page 27 ---
69Last edited 06 Jun 2006 06:21 am by Weeman | | | | 05 Jun 2006 11:09 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 0  Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1,149 OFFLINE | Oh please! Did you look at the actual find? Those “stubs” don’t resemble arms or part of them in any way! They would more likely just be flexible flippers like those of seals. Ever thought of that? It is not a transition, and they didn’t find the whole thing. I bet if they found the back end of it, they would find that it was just an ordinary creature. Maybe they did, but then hid that find... Conspiracies...
Anyway, that is no transition between fish and land walking/crawling animals. They say it is a fish because it has scales and fins. Hello! Reptiles also have scales! Fins? Maybe that’s all they are! Fins! Not a transition from fins to legs!
Tell me when they find the back end, the pelvis, and it it’s connected to the rest of the body. Oh, wait, if/when they do find the back end, they will probably blush and hide all the news about it and cover it up, pretending it never happened... ---
“Dying men have said, “I am sorry I have been an atheist, an infidel, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner”; but no man ever said with his last breath, “I am sorry I have lived a Christian life." “The wages of sin is death- quit before payday.“ | | | 06 Jun 2006 05:43 pm |
Darth Reven Guest | Someone who cares.... wrote:
Oh please! Did you look at the actual find? Those “stubs” don’t resemble arms or part of them in any way! They would more likely just be flexible flippers like those of seals. Ever thought of that? It is not a transition, and they didn’t find the whole thing. I bet if they found the back end of it, they would find that it was just an ordinary creature. Maybe they did, but then hid that find... Conspiracies...
Anyway, that is no transition between fish and land walking/crawling animals. They say it is a fish because it has scales and fins. Hello! Reptiles also have scales! Fins? Maybe that’s all they are! Fins! Not a transition from fins to legs!
Tell me when they find the back end, the pelvis, and it it’s connected to the rest of the body. Oh, wait, if/when they do find the back end, they will probably blush and hide all the news about it and cover it up, pretending it never happened...
what abot frogs they get legs, maybe its an early species of frogs...lol | | | 08 Jun 2006 05:55 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 0Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1,149 OFFLINE | A tadpole grows into a frog, yes. But the tadpole is not a fish, it is a baby frog, it has the genetic information to grow legs and other parts of a frog in it’s genetic code from birth. That is not evolution, that is growth. Evolution would be over a few centuries or more, a fish growing legs and turning into a frog. ---
“Dying men have said, “I am sorry I have been an atheist, an infidel, an agnostic, a skeptic, or a sinner”; but no man ever said with his last breath, “I am sorry I have lived a Christian life." “The wages of sin is death- quit before payday.“ | | | 08 Jun 2006 06:07 pm |
69 Rep: 15Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 11,127 OFFLINE | Someone who cares.... wrote:
Oh please! Did you look at the actual find? Those “stubs” don’t resemble arms or part of them in any way! They would more likely just be flexible flippers like those of seals. Ever thought of that? It is not a transition, and they didn’t find the whole thing. I bet if they found the back end of it, they would find that it was just an ordinary creature. Maybe they did, but then hid that find... Conspiracies...
Anyway, that is no transition between fish and land walking/crawling animals. They say it is a fish because it has scales and fins. Hello! Reptiles also have scales! Fins? Maybe that’s all they are! Fins! Not a transition from fins to legs!
Tell me when they find the back end, the pelvis, and it it’s connected to the rest of the body. Oh, wait, if/when they do find the back end, they will probably blush and hide all the news about it and cover it up, pretending it never happened...
I saw a picture of it. They have the pelvis.
69 | | | 15 Jun 2006 12:41 am |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 0Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1,149 OFFLINE | Show me, like give a link or something. But is that pelvis, if you are right, connected to the vertebrae or not? ---
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