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1 posted on 10/26/2006 11:28:13 AM PDT by aculeus
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...rasps at the host's soft tissues with its piston-like tongue

I think they stole that from a Danielle Steele novel...

/h

2 posted on 10/26/2006 11:30:36 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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Yes, but since the world was created 5,000 years ago, you would not expect that it's evolved much.


3 posted on 10/26/2006 11:31:20 AM PDT by Brilliant
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IBHTP


4 posted on 10/26/2006 11:32:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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Hasn't evolved much? The Gouldians aren't going to like this.


5 posted on 10/26/2006 11:34:24 AM PDT by onedoug
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Most parasites like lampreys, mosquitos, and liberals remain pretty much unchanged throughout earths history. I'm sure we will soon be digging up some old hippies fossil that proves that any day now.


6 posted on 10/26/2006 11:36:42 AM PDT by Dreagon
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They said Helen Thomas hasn't evolved much over the past few hundred million....

I could not resist.
7 posted on 10/26/2006 11:41:40 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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Lampreys are the most "primitive" of the vertebrates, meaning that they are the least changed from the first vertebrates.

I thought all vertebrates by definition had back bones. But ...

"These are pretty insubstantial animals," Coates said. "Lacking a boney skeleton, they rot down, leaving no hard parts, like a skull or ribs. So if a fossil site is discovered that yields impressions of the delicate remains of these animals, then this site needs to be explored thoroughly for other examples of exceptional preservation."

Explanation?

9 posted on 10/26/2006 11:45:19 AM PDT by aculeus
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360 Million-year-old Fish

I must have dated her.

12 posted on 10/26/2006 11:51:47 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a pathological disorder masquerading as a religion.)
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Hmmm...hasn't changed much in 360,000,000 years. So, why not? Did all the random mutations just never find themselves in a favorable environment to be selected? I don't get it.


14 posted on 10/26/2006 11:55:25 AM PDT by mutley ("I read the Koran, and didn't find anything of value in it.")
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IIRC: This was our first dissection in my Freshman year Zoology (Part 2) course, since it represents one of the first Vertebrates (back boned; notochord) animals. Part 1 (the first half-year of the course) was taken up with the Invertebrates.

Ugly little 'suckers'.

17 posted on 10/26/2006 12:00:53 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today's lampreys as "living fossils" since they have remained largely unaltered for 360 million years.

Unaltered for 360 million years? Back to the books for evolutionists. Since a lamprey didn't need to evolve this means that humans didn't either. That's what I get out of this.

19 posted on 10/26/2006 12:10:58 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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A 'Living Fossil': 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much



And why hasn't it evolved much?...C'mon say it..."Because evolution is a fairy-tale."


28 posted on 10/26/2006 12:38:56 PM PDT by CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN
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Bill Clinton would hit it.


29 posted on 10/26/2006 12:40:52 PM PDT by freedomlover (Sorry, a tagline occurred. The tagline has been logged.)
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"Abundant in the Northeast United States, lampreys have a sucker-like mouth with a ring of cartilage that supports the rim of the mouth. It fastens on to a living fish with its teeth, rasps at the host's soft tissues with its piston-like tongue, produces strands of mucus to trap the food and feeds on the body fluids."

Northeastern US socialists' behavior.


36 posted on 10/26/2006 1:00:27 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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I hate lampreys. I hate lampreys (and I hate who posted those pictures.)

I hated lampreys from the first time I accidentally saw one in my high school biology book and screamed in class.

Hell is full of lampreys (and leftists. Or maybe I'm just being redundant about parasitic creatures with no backbones.)


56 posted on 10/26/2006 2:29:24 PM PDT by Simplemines
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Can you spell:

Coelacanth

58 posted on 10/26/2006 2:32:52 PM PDT by Young Werther
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This makes the lampray very much more in tune with Earth's long term environment than any other vertebrates species. That, in Darwinian terms means they are the "fittest". All the others were "less fit" ~ that is, they were evolutionary failures!


60 posted on 10/26/2006 2:38:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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So the eel hasn't changed in 360 million years but apes turned into men. Boy, evolution sure is fickle. Or else its all bull crap.


79 posted on 10/26/2006 4:26:32 PM PDT by fish hawk
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Coelecanth still King of All Living Fossils in my book.


91 posted on 10/26/2006 7:06:08 PM PDT by Ruddles
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Is this that missing link fish that breathed through a hole in it's head?

I'm trying not to laugh.

113 posted on 10/27/2006 8:14:17 PM PDT by Jorge
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