Ancient serpent shows its leg (hindlimbed snake fossil)

BBC ^ | 04/10/08 | Jonathan Amos

[TigerLikesRooster]

Don't get me started. I know this guy with whom I cannot talk about Geology, Paleontology, or Astronomy. Every one of these fields deals with events that occurred millions of years ago. A mere passing reference to any events that old makes him cut me off and indoctrinate me with bible version of natural history.

I have been avoiding him now. He may think that, if he keeps hacking at me, he will eventually succeed. Won't happen.:-)

[Beowulf9]

Thought so:)

Loved Hart!

[ASA Vet]

Pingski

[Blogger]

Exactly. Scripture validated again.

[CJ Wolf]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Now there’s 2 more missing transitional fossils.

[sodpoodle]

I suspect there are hundreds of FReepers who wanted to post exactly what you did.

Kudos for speed and savvy;)

sod

[allmendream]

It looks like an unexplained mystery to me! LOL!

[CJ Wolf]

lol

[LIConFem]

"The 85cm-long (33in) creature, known as Eupodophis descouensi, comes from the Late Cretaceous, about 92 million years ago. "

I didn't know the Kennedy family went back that far. Good deal for them they aren't Mormons.

[LIConFem]

Those ain’t legs. Legs grow down from the hips. Those things are growin’ right out of the ground.

[Coyoteman]

So tell me....how can we be certain from one of these fossils that these are vestigial limbs that have almost disappeared, and not budding limbs that are just starting to grow?

One would simply look at similar specimens in the fossil record that are older and younger and see if there is a trend.

[Soliton]

//sarc tag not needed?

The tag is apropriate in this case, but sarcasm is obvious to the wise and a tag would have spoiled the fun ;-)

[mnehring]

just had to make sure.. I’ve seen comments like that here before and the poster was completely serious.

[Soliton]

A wise man once said that you can not use reason to change a person’s opinion that wasn’t based on reason in the first place.

[SunkenCiv]

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[lepton]

clams

[ZULU]

Satan is pretty smart isn’t he? Makes you winder why he didn;t win the celestial war with St. Michael.

[ZULU]

Satan is pretty smart isn’t he? Makes you wonder why he didn’t win the celestial war with St. Michael.