Thanks! For the first 549,999,980 years or so, they were just lurking.
Posted on 09/05/2019 2:09:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The team of scientists found the Yilingia spiciformis, which translates to "spiky Yiling bug," preserved in layers of rock near the Chinese city of Yiling. It resembled a millipede up to 10 inches in length, broken into 50 segments across its short body.
The spiky Yiling bug is one of the earliest bilaterians—that is, animals with bilateral symmetry, like humans—with segmented bodies and movement. They laid the groundwork for larger animals to move, think and impact their environment, he said.
Scientists always assumed segmented bilaterians evolved sometime between 635 million and 539 million years ago, but they'd never found evidence to back their claims. The fossilized trails provide a timeline for the Cambrian revolution, the "explosion" of life 540 million years ago that included many major animal groups that exist on Earth today.
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How could they possibly know that something could make decisions based on its fossil?
I think that I dated her. She married a Democrat politician.
Thx.
When I saw “worm” in the title, I assumed it was an article about the not so great Senator from Illinois - dickless Durbin.
Thanks! For the first 549,999,980 years or so, they were just lurking.
Only partially joking. I was in Singapore a few years back and walked through the Chinese medicine store. Lots of weird odds and ends and parts of animals, plants, sea creatures, etc.
Interesting culture too — their scientific process was by trial and error. I believe one of the emperors drank a “life preserving, life extending” solution that contained mercury. Apparently, it killed him. Lol.
An error that benefited his heir...
This is rather like the Japanese obsession with giant monsters, probably influenced by the gigantic atomic experience. Of course the Chinese were probably also influence by the dinosaur skeletons they found and identified with dragons.
It’s been hypothesized that Godzilla-type critters in Japanese cinema somehow represented fear of nuclear annihilation; it’s much more likely that they merely represented the threat posed by outsiders and aliens, which was more marked after their invincible army and navy got so resoundingly vinced in WWII.
Where Did Dragons Come From?
January 23, 2012
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/01/where-did-dragons-come-from/
The First Fossil Hunters
by Adrienne Mayor, foreword by Peter Dodson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691058636/sunkencivilizati
Greek Myths: Not Necessarily Mythical
Source: New York Times
Published: 7/4/00 Author: John Noble Wilford
Posted on 07/07/2000 07:37:37 PDT by H.R. Gross
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3965eb3163de.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/04/science/greek-myths-not-necessarily-mythical.html
‘Cyclops’-like remains found on Crete
CNN | Friday, January 31, 2003 Posted: 2:52 AM HKT (1852 GMT) | Editorial Staff
Posted on 02/01/2003 11:07:21 AM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833994/posts
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