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Ancient serpent shows its leg (hindlimbed snake fossil)
BBC ^ | 04/10/08 | Jonathan Amos

Posted on 04/11/2008 8:57:26 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: F15Eagle

Guess this snake must have lived just before the curse.


41 posted on 04/11/2008 12:42:48 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

By the condition of the fossil bones. Mature bones look different from adolescent bones.

By the way, some snakes - boas for one, have a vestigal outer limb in the form of a small surface spur used by the males to stimulate the females during courtship.


42 posted on 04/11/2008 12:44:44 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Does he think that Romney believes Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers?


43 posted on 04/11/2008 12:45:51 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: allmendream

“Clams’ got mommies”, too.


44 posted on 04/11/2008 12:46:00 PM PDT by Pudding Biafra
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To: sodpoodle

That’s INSULTING - to snakes.


45 posted on 04/11/2008 12:46:51 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks for that link. I’m an old ophidiophile from way back.


46 posted on 04/11/2008 12:51:24 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: F15Eagle

Well, dust, insects, eggs, birds and small mammals.....


47 posted on 04/11/2008 12:52:53 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: Pudding Biafra
Clams are a simultaneous hermaphrodite and brood its young in the inner demibranchs. The gonads are ovotestes with oogenic and spermatogenic regions in each ascinus.

So a Clams mommy is some other clams daddy.

48 posted on 04/11/2008 12:53:44 PM PDT by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal." Napoleon Dynamite)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
And other snakes!

A snake that has just eaten another snake must be SO FULL!!!

49 posted on 04/11/2008 12:55:06 PM PDT by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal." Napoleon Dynamite)
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To: allmendream

I was thinking more on the line of one that eats a cow or horse as being most full....

No wonder they got rid of legs, it would be impossible to even walk with a gut load like that!


50 posted on 04/11/2008 12:59:17 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
But that is just one big lump in the stomach. A snake that eats another snake has his entire digestive system filled with snake.
51 posted on 04/11/2008 1:09:52 PM PDT by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal." Napoleon Dynamite)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

The real question is the terrestrial versus aquatic origin.
It will be interesting to see what this fossil lends to that. Perhaps it was wet swamp (sorry Genesisiacs - no dust there!!). Never had a snake that couldn’t swim - well!


52 posted on 04/11/2008 1:14:41 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: F15Eagle

This is just an extinct species of snake. All these evolutionists getting all excited over it, lol, the Lord does have a sense of humor doesn’t he.:)

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”-Romans 1:21-22


53 posted on 04/11/2008 10:32:30 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Fight to Win.)
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To: allmendream

Too bad Johnny Hart’s not around to read that.


55 posted on 04/15/2008 1:48:20 PM PDT by Pudding Biafra
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To: Pudding Biafra
He might find it disturbing. He liked to anthropomorphize animals and bivalves are not well suited for anthropomorphism!

“Clams got mommies who are other clam's daddies!”

56 posted on 04/15/2008 2:20:15 PM PDT by allmendream
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