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Back from the dead: Living fossil identified
livescience via, MSNBC ^
| March 9, 2006
| By Bjorn Carey
Posted on 03/13/2006 2:25:13 PM PST by flevit
A recently discovered fossil of Laonastes matched the "living" specimen in skull shape and overall size. The only difference is that the "living" specimen's teeth are slightly more pointed.
"It looks like possibly one of the things that's been changing in family is improved cutting of vegetation," Dawson told LiveScience. "But over 11 million years you'd expect some differences in the structures."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: another; crevobloodbath
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:25:15 PM PST
by
flevit
To: flevit
First one! w00t!
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:27:02 PM PST
by
Shalom Israel
(There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
To: flevit
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:27:19 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: flevit
Rodent had been thought to have died out 11 million years agoLOL!!
Evolution...wrong again.
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:28:44 PM PST
by
Angus MacGregor
(Wars are fought in the will...)
To: Shalom Israel
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:28:46 PM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
To: Shalom Israel
Man, I was just opening photobucket. Hah.
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:29:38 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: flevit
A recently discovered fossil of Laonastes matched the "living" specimen in skull shape and overall size. The only difference is that the "living" specimen's teeth are slightly more pointed. 11 million years and the only change in the animial is pointer teeth?
Evolution at work...
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:31:07 PM PST
by
Angus MacGregor
(Wars are fought in the will...)
===> Placemarker <=== in case the thread evolves
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:31:08 PM PST
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: satchmodog9
"It looks like possibly one of the things that's been changing in family is improved cutting of vegetation,"
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:32:29 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: flevit
Yep, RATs are growing sharper teethe these days.
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:33:10 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Shalom Israel
Better late than never!
To: Angus MacGregor
>Rodent had been thought to have died out 11 million years agoLOL!!
Evolution...wrong again.
Words like 'thought to have', 'might', 'may have', 'possibly', etc., are used for a reason. Of course, when an evolutionist does use these words, creationists pounce on them and label them 'just so' stories. In reality, scientists are neither afraid to draw conclusions based on the available evidence nor unwilling to embrace new discoveries that mean revising these conclusions. What you see as a weakness, and would be for any dogmatic belief, is actually one of science's greatest strengths.
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:42:24 PM PST
by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: flevit
Living fossil? Based on the article it's dead Laotian B-B-Q....
To: flevit
Idiot MSM.
This squirrel-like rodent was first believed to be a new species, but scientists say it is actually the only living representative of the otherwise extinct Distomydae family of rodents.
Well, it can still be a new species in a otherwise extict family. Did these people skip high school biology and all the hours normally spent with kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species? Or did they just stick to birth control for cucumbers in their biology classes?
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posted on
03/13/2006 2:58:04 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The tree of liberty is getting awfully parched.)
To: flevit
The picture says:
This squirrel-like rodent was first believed to be a new species, but scientists say it is actually the only living representative of the otherwise extinct Distomydae family of rodents.
Anyone can wipe out a species .... now a family is another matter.
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posted on
03/13/2006 3:30:46 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: Angus MacGregor
LOL!! Evolution...wrong again. Yeah, it actually died out 3000 years ago.
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posted on
03/13/2006 3:41:47 PM PST
by
narby
(Evolution is the new "third rail" in American politics)
To: flevit
Those dumb rat squirrels got no sense! They could have been Britney Spears by now!!!
To: pcottraux; martin_fierro
Not a crypto ping, but perhaps of interest. Thanks Martin.
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posted on
03/14/2006 11:33:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
To: Angelas; presidio9; Idisarthur; Hegemony Cricket; A knight without armor; new cruelty; SunkenCiv; ..
Seems to be worthy to me of a crypto ping.
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posted on
03/14/2006 11:54:52 PM PST
by
pcottraux
(It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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