[muawiyah]

Still, science marches on and there are those viral bodies and bacterial DNA chunks to account for. Are they are mothers and fathers too, or did someone "adjust" a pre-existing master design to "fit Earth"?

(Drums beat long hard notes ~ dum, dum, ~ dum, dum ~ dum, dum)

I can just hear the laughter of Earth-zoo's "keepers" when they read this stuff.

[colorado tanker]

No matter how they looked at it, the lineages defined by their fossil forms "showed an imperfect but very good fit to the molecular data," Jablonski said. The fits were generally far better than random. The few exceptions included freshwater clams, "a complete disaster," he said.

So, what are those tasty bivalves related to???

[colorado tanker]

ping.