Posted on 05/12/2019 12:41:42 PM PDT by Libloather
A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life thanks to a rare evolutionary process known as "iterative evolution."
The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of Aldabra. Early fossils of the bird suggest it lived there thousands of years ago and died out because it could not fly to higher ground when rising sea levels threatened its safety. But thanks to "iterative evolution," which evolves similar body parts due to genetics from a similar ancestor, the bird came back from the dead.
**SNIP**
In order to make the determination that the extinct bird had evolved thanks to iterative evolution, they looked at fossils from 100,000 years ago, after sea-levels began to fall off during the last Ice Age. Upon inspecting the fossils, the wing bone showed "an advanced state of flightlessness," while the ankle bone showed properties that would suggest it was evolving towards flightlessness.
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Pasteur proved that spontaneous generation of microbe does not exist...
Those were good days...
“So sea levels were rising thousands of years ago.”
Liberal: I just read this cool article about iterative evolution that occurred due to rising and falling sea levels.
Conservative: “So sea levels were rising thousands of years ago?”
Liberal: No, what’s cool about the article is the concept about iterative evolution. I find it fasc-—”
Conservative: “So sea levels were rising thousands of years ago.”
Liberal: “No you’re missing the point. It’s an example of iterative evo——”
Conservative: “So sea levels were rising thousands of years ago?”
In the future, please place science material in chat - not news.
The analysis of fossil DNA from the previous flightless version of the bird shows that it was a genetically distinct species from the current version. In other words, conditions on the island led to the separate evolution of two similar species at different times.
LMAO
It was TEOTWAWKI!
I think these evolutionists are making it up as they go along.
Their editor softened it a bit. The article originally stated that the bird evolved into a fish so that it would drown then afterward evolved in a bird again. After all, survival of the fittest you know.
Is everyone convinced? I think this whole theory is cr**.....but someone is gonna make a sh**load of Grant Money.
I love that bit. And the following strip where, after the clam says, “Now I have to kill him,” he yells, “Clams can talk!”
Tim Finnegan did ...
>> Good thing it wasnt a Parrot. <<
You can say that again. See what I did there. Or maybe what you meant to do there, because I’m not sure I got your joke.
Did you just call people who believe in shore birds coming back to life, “gull-ible”?
I’m thinking the Choir Invisible.
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