RE: show me one animal that has evolved into another ....
Carpicon - Is it still a theory ? I mean, the science world revolves around evolution as if it were fact - its taught in schools as fact, in college as fact ... right ?
[i]Palaeontologists in northeast Ethiopia have uncovered a jaw and six teeth of an early hominid, the Ardipithecus Kadabba, the culture ministry announced.
"The six primitive teeth belonging to different individuals show that Ardipithecus Kadabba was the earliest species of its genus, and could represent the first species on the human branch of the family tree, just after the evolutionary split between lines leading to modern chimpanzees and humans," the ministry said in a
statement released late Thursday. [/quote]
note he didn't IF there was a split, but rather conclusively there WAS a split.
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The new fossil teeth were recovered in 2002 at Asa Koma Red Hill, along the western margin of Middle Awash, about 290 kilometres (180 miles) northeast of Addis Ababa, by the Middle Awash Palaeontological Research Project, it added.
The Asa Koma locality had already yielded another arm bone fragment and an isolated tooth of Ardipithecus Kadabba in 2000.
The newly discovered teeth, including an upper canine, premolars from both jaws and upper molars, were all retrieved from deposits sandwiched between volcanic horizons dated by the Argon/Argon method to between 5.54 and 5.77 million years, the statement said.
The teeth reveal dental evolution in the earliest hominids and have helped to differentiate the earlier and later species of the genus Ardipithecus, it further added
RE: show me one animal that has evolved into another ....
Stealthy,
What's your point? Of course that guy is going to say that like it's a fact. He's a scientist, that's what he believes is fact. People around here (including me) talk about all kinds of things that we may intimate as facts. I say that the Bush tax cuts either: turned the economy around, or kept it from being disastrous. I don't have any proof that they did, just a strong belief. Ministers talk about Jesus resurrection as fact even though there are only a handful of witnesses.
RE: show me one animal that has evolved into another ....
here's another
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WASHINGTON -- Scientists have discovered the fossils of two new species of dinosaurs that lived in Antarctica millions of years ago when it was a warm, green land similar to today's Pacific Northwest.
Not IF it was, or the theory that it was ... no, it Was warm, it WAS green etc etc.
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One creature was a 70 million-year-old, two-legged meat-eater -- a larger relative of the ferocious velociraptor
The other bones came from a 190 million-year-old, four-legged vegetarian, an early version of the huge, plant-eating monsters, such as Diplodocus.
The fossils were found 2,000 miles apart, within six days in December. The National Science Foundation, sponsor of the research, reported the discoveries Thursday.
"At first we didn't want to believe what we'd found," said William Hammer, a dinosaur expert at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. He led a six-man team working on Antarctica's 13,000-foot-high Mount Kirkpatrick, about 400 miles from the South Pole.
A New Zealand mountaineer, Peter Braddock, who was guiding the scientists, spotted the fossils on Dec. 7.
Hammer estimated that the creature was 6 to 7 feet tall and 25 to 30 feet long.
Meanwhile, a separate group led by James Martin of the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City and Judd Case of St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., was searching for marine fossils on James Ross Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, south of Chile.
On Dec. 12, they came across the jaw, tooth, lower legs and foot of a large land creature.
They identified it as a theropod, a class of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex as well as the little velociraptors.
The fossils suggest that the new dinosaur was about 6 feet tall, 30 feet long and probably a swift runner.
A jaw, a tooth a few bones of the leg and foot and they can tell how tall and long ? THAT amazes me, it really does.
show me one animal that has evolved into another ....
