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iwantawiiJun 28, 2010
Even stranger how some organisms, like the manatee, started out aquatic and then evolved to live on land -- but then evolved further to return to the sea. The manatee's closest cousin is the elephant. Life is amazing.
bnk1310Jun 28, 2010
I wonder how the coelacanth figures into this bit of genetics. It has meaty armlike appendages with fins on the outer digits of it.
theplJun 28, 2010
Fins become limbs through a magical process combined with lots of speculation that scientists can find no proof of. The same process that made rocks eventually become humans. Great job, mother nature!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
goosemangJun 28, 2010
This really wasn't anything new, all I have to do is open my entry level college Biology textbook to understand how fins evolved into limbs...
phuzzydayJun 28, 2010
I think they may have discovered a genetic REASON for one creature to have fins, and the other to have limbs, but I don't see where they found evidence that one CHANGED into another. Unless their preconceived ideas provided that conclusion.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
lormendiJun 28, 2010
Just curious, how do the anti-evolutionists explain the flounder?
clawcJun 28, 2010
Variety and originality. Nothing's changed outside of very minor mutations. A fruit fly with longer wings is still a fruit fly. Fins turning into limbs. Now THAT takes blind faith. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
pyratorJun 28, 2010
Not when you have fossils that show just such a change taking place. That's evidence - not blind faith.
Here's a list of some transitional forms
416-359 Ma Osteolepis
385 Ma Eusthenopteron
380 Ma Panderichthys
375 Ma Tiktaalik
368 Ma Elginerpeton
368 Ma Obruchevichthys
365 Ma Ventastega
365 Ma Acanthostega
365 Ma Ichthyostega
360 Ma Hynerpeton
359 - 345 Ma Pederpes
295 Ma Eryops
powderedtoastyJun 28, 2010
Blind faith, or an ability to read (non-fiction) books.