[PatrickHenry]

If you feel that you must post Hillary jokes and pics, please address them to someone other than me.

[traumer]

[Quix]

Doesn't look like it to me.

But, hey, I thought this was a thread about Scuba Teddy K.

[Right in Wisconsin]

The timing of this new "proof" of macroevolution is very suspect. Funny, just when they need it the most, POOF it appears.

[hershey]

Okay, but this is a really cool article...despite Hill jokes and pics.

[TexConfederate1861]

Gee...and I thought Michael Moore was the closest link to the whale........

[RobRoy]

"The conclusion by University of California, Berkeley, post-doctoral fellow Jean-Renaud Boisserie and his French colleagues finally puts to rest the long-standing notion that the hippo is actually related to the pig or to its close relative, the South American peccary."

That statement is a crock. And I don't even need to 'splain why.

[Tribune7]

While the common ancestor of cetaceans and anthracotheres probably wasn't fully aquatic, it likely lived around water, he said. And while many anthracotheres appear to have been adapted to life in water, all of the youngest fossils of anthracotheres, hippos and cetaceans are aquatic or semi-aquatic.

Gotta love assumptions.

[A CA Guy]

Shows you how badly I misread the title, I thought this was a Star Jones story. ;-0

[hosepipe]

One thing is certain....
The third human to be born, came from the first two...

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Demvolution.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . Boisserie and colleagues Michel Brunet and Fabrice Lihoreau fill in this gap by proposing . . .

Wish I had that kind of clout. My proposals have never filled a gap of more than 40 days, let alone 40 million years. Come to think of it, how does a proposal fill a gap? Must take some imagination. But, by God, this is cold, hard, science at work. Yes indeedie.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Scientists find missing link between weasels and Democrats.

[cookcounty]

"A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and then died out in the ice ages IS the missing link...............

.......This PROPOSAL places whales squarely within the large group of cloven-hoofed mammals....."

(Emphasis MINE)

Either it's fact or it's a proposal. Why are science writers so ignorant?

[AndrewC]

From the article

"In this particular case, you can't really rely on the dentition, however," Boisserie said. "Teeth are the best preserved and most numerous fossils, and analysis of teeth is very important in paleontology, but they are subject to lots of environmental processes and can quickly adapt to the outside world. So, most characteristics are not dependable indications of relationships between major groups of mammals. Teeth are not as reliable as people thought."

...

"Our study is the most complete to date, including lots of different taxa and a lot of new characteristics," Boisserie said. "Our results are very robust and a good alternative to our findings is still to be formulated."

Use a hammer and you can make it fit.

[spitlana]

... the legless whales and dolphins together with the cloven-hoofed mammals in a group named Cetartiodactyla

Well there you have it--the proverbial "purple cow" that noone ever saw! Evolution "scientists" continue taking themselves seriously just for our amusement. :p

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It looks like you're going to make 2000 posts.

[shubi]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=azBO_AumTJhs

I couldn't post this as a separate story because Bloomberg is blocked. It is very disturbing.

It shows the rapid evolution of AIDs into a very resistant strain, resistant to all known treatments. It also does not have the long latent period of the first strains. It only stays as HIV 3 months before turning into full blown Aids.

This probably is the precursor to pnuemonic AIDs, which would make the plagues of the middle ages look mild in comparison. It would be more devasting than nuclear warfare.