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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 04/19/2006 : 12:36:36
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NEW YORK - A new fossil discovery has revealed the most primitive snake known, a crawling creature with two legs, and it provides new evidence that snakes evolved on land rather than in the sea.
Snakes are thought to have evolved from four-legged lizards, losing their legs over time. But scientists have long debated whether those ancestral lizards were land-based or marine creatures.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12389029/
Just made a new topic so that Filthy wouldnt miss this one.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 04/19/2006 12:37:04
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 16:30:36 [Permalink]
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/19/fossil.snake.ap/index.html
Here's a CNN article on same. Wish we could have a closer look-see. Anyone subscribe to Nature? |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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trogdor
Skeptic Friend
198 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2006 : 18:48:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/19/fossil.snake.ap/index.html
Here's a CNN article on same. Wish we could have a closer look-see. Anyone subscribe to Nature?
I do, but the latest issue that I can get access to is not that recent. (4/6/06.) If anyone can find the article on Google scholar, I will be able to get the full text. otherwise, you will just have to wait. |
all eyes were on Ford Prefect. some of them were on stalks.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2006 : 06:12:54 [Permalink]
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Thanks all. I've been working on something and haven't been paying much attention to anything else.
I'm going to dig around and see what's happening on this, It'll be welcome break.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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