Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors

Science Daily ^ | October 12, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

An innovative experiment at the University of Leicester that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like.

The scientists wanted to examine the decaying process in order to understand the decomposition of soft-body parts in fish. This in turn will help them reconstruct an image of creatures that existed 500 million years ago.

Their findings have been published Oct. 13 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

The researchers, from the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester, studied the way primitive fish, such as hagfishes and lampreys, decompose to gain an impression of our early ancestry.

The team at Leicester (Rob Sansom, Sarah Gabbott and Mark Purnell) explain: "Our earliest fish-like relatives left fossil remains which have the potential to show us how the group to which we belong evolved from worm-like relatives. But there is a major problem -- people are familiar with bones, and teeth as fossils but do not perhaps realise that before these inventions our ancestors consisted of entirely soft bodied creatures. Eyes, organs, guts and muscles all decompose very quickly after death, and as any forensic scientist knows recognising rotted anatomy is difficult.

[ForGod'sSake]

Fact is, this chicanery is but a small part of a much larger scam we allowed an out of control feral government to perpetrate on us. Peace be upon you. ;^)

[ravenwolf]

Catagenesis Oil Origin

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I guess every thing has to come from something, but they would have you believe that oil came after every thing else was here including animals and forests and etc i can believe that oil was formed right along with the earth much easier,
and i don,t really know what difference it makes except for the money some of the scientists are making.

[ravenwolf]

Petroleum has a biological basis which would tend to rule that out.

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That may be so, but how do we really know they are making the right connections, case in point, they have been looking for the missing link in man for years and have not found it, and the reason they are looking for it is not because evidence points to it but because they have predetermined that Adam came from a long line of ancestors, the reason they have not found it is because it is not there.

So in this case its just the opposite, they are not looking for anything else.

[SatinDoll]

Uh, I don’t think that is the case.

I know that coal is the result of large trees that fell during the Carbonaceous period and were buried by natural soil action. Since the bacteria that causes the rotting of wood hadn’t evolved then, these trees piled up upon one another, eventually became covered with soil, then metamorphosed through heat and pressure to become coal.

As for petroleum, long before animals as we know them came upon the earth or swam in the seas, the oceans had life in the forms of simple algae. ( Fossilized algae have been discovered in rockes older than 500 Million years old.)

This algae bloomed throughout most of the world’s oceans and was the source of the oxygen we breathe. When algae died it sank to the sea floor and piled up. This accumulation of dead biomass from millions of years of accumulation eventually became petroleum.

[ravenwolf]

Uh, I don’t think that is the case.

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Well, you probably know a lot more about it than i do, but mainly i was referring to the idea that oil came from dead dinosaurs which i think is ridicules, the idea of coal coming from wood is a little easier for me to believe.

how ever, What is the sun burning on? and what was saturn burning on before it started cooling off,

I have a lot of respect for the here and now scientists but i am Leary of the ones who think they can see in the past for millions of years by doing thousands of tests , each test depending on every other test, one test being wrong every thing is wrong.

At any rate i will not argue about the coal, because i do not know how deep they find coal, or anything else about it for that matter, but i will stick to my guns about my belief of oil not being a fossil fuel.

[ravenwolf]

There is(or was) a scientific “concensus” that man causes global warming too. Patently a load of crap but, there it is

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You got that right, and they made people believe it to be a fact when it was only an idea.

[ravenwolf]

Eyes, organs, guts and muscles all decompose very quickly after death, and as any forensic scientist knows recognising rotted anatomy is difficult.

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Guts, nope they can,t be related to us.

[SatinDoll]

The Sun is fueled by hydrogen in a process called nuclear fusion.

As to dinosaurs and petroleum, I have to laugh. There was an ad for gasoline on TV long, long ago that featured a dinosaur’s head and long neck popping out of a gas tank, and roaring. Petroleum formed long before dinosaurs existed and furthermore, there is no evidence dinosaurs roar!

There is an ongoing debate among geologists whether petroleum is still forming deep underground. I know for certain that coal is not: it only appears in geologic strata known to have formed during the Carbonaceous period and nowhere else.

[ravenwolf]

As to dinosaurs and petroleum, I have to laugh. There was an ad for gasoline on TV long, long ago that featured a dinosaur’s head and long neck popping out of a gas tank, and roaring

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I did not see the ad, but it seems familiar so i probably heard about it, but back then i would not have been inclined to give it much thought.

[ResearchMonkey]

Chevron's "Dinosaur" - 1977