Missing-link fossil wasn't a fish -- it has a pelvis

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Thursday, July 4, 2002 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor

[Phil V.]

A fossil previously mistaken for the remains of an extinct fish turns out to hold the earliest known creature to have emerged from the Earth's waters and walk on land some 350 million years ago.

This ancestor of every four-limbed, backboned animal living today -- the first creature clearly designed to walk on land, with forward-facing feet -- fills a major gap in the evidence for the evolution of vertebrates from sea to land, scientists say.

[holyscroller]

Yeh, and you can also make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. More supposed "science" out of the dope-laden minds of California's elite scientific community.

[ctonious]

No doubt, soon to be named Elvisaurus.

[JCG]

This ancestor of every four-limbed, backboned animal living today -- the first creature clearly designed to walk on land, with forward-facing feet -- fills a major gap in the evidence for the evolution of vertebrates from sea to land, scientists say.

Whaddya mean, designed? All this happened by accident, don'tcha know?

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[monkeyshine]

Since it had a pelvis, do you think it spawned Elvis?

deep man, deep.

[monkeyshine]

We have a crevo_list? What's a crevo_list? LOL.

[monkeyshine]

Hey man, the dope in the UK is the dope!

[Phil V.]

You're losing points, monkeyshine!

lame, weak lol

[monkeyshine]

If, when on a thread, you cannot determine who the primitive tetrapod is, the primitive tetrapod is you. :-)

[Phil V.]

Let's see . . . uh . . . 350,000,000 years divided by 10,000 years . . . uh . . . equals . . . uh . . . a divergence factor between the creationists and the evolutionists of 35,000.

A clear difference of opiniion!

[Phil V.]

'Tis a slow night indeed when a creation/evolution thread dies with no loss of Freeper life!

I wonder if they were good eating.

[monkeyshine]

Well the answer to your discrepency may lie in the waters of the Great Flood at the time of Noah. It is said in ancient lore that the waters of the flood were sulfuric. This may have had an aging effect on the fossils of animals that were already extinct by the time of the flood.

Either that, or their geiger counters are out of whack.

[monkeyshine]

I wonder if they'd be Kosher...

[Phil V.]

It is said in ancient lore that the waters of the flood were sulfuric.

That might explain the large deposits of gypsum (CaSO4)in the Mediterranean [[[I reaching waaaaaaaaay back for this one and please don't spank me if my chemistry is a wee bit off]]] The sulfuric acid would dissolve the limestone and in the process release tones and tones of CO2 (greenhouse gas) into the environment. . . .WAIT! . . . the specimen WAS limestone . . . hence not affected by the sulfuric flood.

[PFKEY]

They found that ever elusive missing link again?

[philman_36]

...tones and tones of CO2...
Vestiges of Gaul, Brittannia? Tonnes and tonnes/tons and tons/tunnes and tunnes
You got me stumped.

[philman_36]

"It must have been a clumsy swamp crawler, probably preying on small fish in the water and grabbing anything it could catch on land like millipedes and primitive scorpions." Clack said.
Nothing like a good, well educated guess is there.

[Phil V.]

I flunkd speling.