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Fossil Yields Surprise Kin of Crocodiles
NY Times ^
| January 26, 2006
| CARL ZIMMER
Posted on 01/26/2006 3:31:41 AM PST by Pharmboy
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Convergent evolution strikes again...
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:31:43 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: PatrickHenry
Looks like a dino to me, but got to believe those pelvic bones...
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:32:44 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
Never smile at a crocodile
To: Pharmboy
"The discovery is a striking example of how different animals can evolve the same kind of body over and over again."
What????
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:40:27 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Pharmboy; Junior
Thanks, but I can't deploy the list for this. It's "just another fossil."
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:41:44 AM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: PatrickHenry; Pharmboy
Don't worry, it's been catalogued and will appear in the next digest.
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:46:00 AM PST
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Pharmboy
I think it's got a way cooler body-style than a crocodile. It should have stuck around.
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:52:37 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: The Red Zone
Bet it tasted just like chicken.
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:52:44 AM PST
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: Pharmboy
Is anybody missing a bureaucrat?
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:53:26 AM PST
by
T'wit
(Brokeback Mountain: the love that dare not yippie-kai-yay-kai-yea its name.)
To: Pharmboy
The age of the creature, all the fleshy parts that long ago dissolved, where it came from, what it became, all of that conjecture being passed off as facts, as if these people were there to photograph the creature.
Amazing.
It must take a great imagination to be a "paleontologist".
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posted on
01/26/2006 3:58:48 AM PST
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
Don't get excited... It was just my ex-mother-in-law.
She was just taking a nap at the site and they made a minor mistake in their analysis.
To: PatrickHenry
No prollem...I ping, you decide.
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posted on
01/26/2006 4:07:34 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
Evolutionists are due for big surprises.
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posted on
01/26/2006 4:34:49 AM PST
by
RoadTest
(- - Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. - Isaiah 27:6b)
To: T'wit
Yeah, I was thinking Teddy looks a lot like Jabba the Hutt.
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posted on
01/26/2006 4:37:36 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: mlc9852
"The discovery is a striking example of how different animals can evolve the same kind of body over and over again." What????
The beauty of having something written down is that if you don't catch it the first time, you can go back and read it again.
If you need it explained further, the idea is that external conditions will shape the evolution of a body type - for example, a two-legged velociraptor-type creature - because it is the best type suited for those conditions. After all the other variants have gone by the wayside, the one best suited for a particular set of conditions remains.
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posted on
01/26/2006 4:46:05 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: Pharmboy
![](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/01/25/national/26sicence650.jpg)
See, now who says Hillary only had one child!
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posted on
01/26/2006 4:58:14 AM PST
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: Pharmboy
This is interesting because the CW was that true reptilian exothermic physiology would not support a fleet footed, large dinosaur.
Imagine one of these things sunning itself on your driveway.
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posted on
01/26/2006 5:08:46 AM PST
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: Westbrook
I agree...although a Darwinist, I always cringed a bit when paleoanthroplogists built a complete hominid from one fossil tooth.
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posted on
01/26/2006 5:09:12 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
01/26/2006 5:09:14 AM PST
by
LRS
To: SunkenCiv
You want a ping to these?
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posted on
01/26/2006 5:11:20 AM PST
by
FrogMom
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