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♣Gawain♣ May 19th, 2009 9:10 PM

"Missing Link" fossil found
 
Click!!!


Named Ida, after I think a Greek God(and also an asteroid).

Well, the mystery is now solved.

Comments?

Mitchman May 20th, 2009 12:38 AM

So we used to have super long tails? Oh wow. But seriously now this is a great find. The whole evolution thing will be proper now.

.inLOVE May 20th, 2009 1:21 AM

Interesting find. Although it kind of freaks me out.

Gusxx1 May 20th, 2009 2:50 AM

Wow very interesting find. I'm usually interested in these kinds of things. And we had tails, would have never known ;)

BHwolfgang May 20th, 2009 2:54 AM

Oh? The primitive version of human actually had a tail? Sweet.

Seriously, look at the skull of that thing. It's more monster than human-looking. :|

Mitchman May 20th, 2009 2:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gusxx1 (Post 4657265)
Wow very interesting find. I'm usually interested in these kinds of things. And we had tails, would have never known ;)

Actually the position of our spine compared to the Gorilla's hints a bit that we could of had a tail. It all makes sense now.

Reina May 20th, 2009 4:13 AM

Oh wow. That looks like a flipping dinosaur! But an amazing discovery, it is.

Captain Fabio May 20th, 2009 6:22 AM

I read this in the Metro, of all places! XD

It is very interesting. I love reading about evolution and the human life.
It has always interested me.

This is a rather interesting development in the missing link.
It seems we are taking closer steps to the meaning of life XD

Alexithymia~ May 20th, 2009 7:26 AM

Woah. That's a really good find.
I wouldn't mind having a tail.. :P
It would be quite cool.

Evolution always interests me.

Åzurε May 20th, 2009 8:56 AM

Well, it's certainly interesting. It's great that they found something like an entire skeleton intact (that's quite an accomplishment for anybody!), butI don't think it is a missing link, just an extinct primate of sorts. After all (without sparking a flame war), if macroevolution really happens, then doesn't it stand to reason there'd be infinitely more go-betweens than actual species?

Caina May 20th, 2009 8:56 AM

... that's a new and good information.
And since we have history lessons, I got shocked that THAT thing
is one of our ancestors. It really looks like a dinosaur or a reptile but if that's
what the experts say... :O

It would be cool to see everyone with tails. :laugh:

Amaruuk May 20th, 2009 1:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Rigel| (Post 4656915)
Maybe you should study human paleontology more...

The Missing link is actually the gap in which is it said that the human evolutionary line is separated from the other forms of arthropods.

Don't you mean primates? Arthropods are things like insects, spiders, etc. Maybe you should study more.

Anyways, going along sort of with what mOOG said, I find it interesting how there are so many species in between species, and such a vast number are not represented in the fossil record. What if this species was a cut-off point in it's line, but another similar species instead became us? Still, there's a great deal of valuable information to be found in this specimen, and 'missing link' doesn't necessarily mean that this species was part of the exact line of evolution that led to us, but it gives us a look at what characteristics evolved first, and how and when the split occured.

And now you can see why I'm a Roark fangirl

Yamikarasu May 20th, 2009 2:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kinarii (Post 4658633)
Don't you mean primates? Arthropods are things like insects, spiders, etc. Maybe you should study more.

Actually, we are still technically primates, so maybe you both should study more. (I kid) :P

But it's not like this is "proof" for evolution in the sense that evolution didn't have enough proof before. It's simply another piece of evidence, granted a major piece, in an overwhelmingly large pile of evidence discovered previously.

Still this is cool. Did anybody else notice that Google changed their image on their homepage?

♣Gawain♣ May 20th, 2009 9:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kinarii (Post 4658633)
Don't you mean primates? Arthropods are things like insects, spiders, etc. Maybe you should study more.

Anyways, going along sort of with what mOOG said, I find it interesting how there are so many species in between species, and such a vast number are not represented in the fossil record. What if this species was a cut-off point in it's line, but another similar species instead became us? Still, there's a great deal of valuable information to be found in this specimen, and 'missing link' doesn't necessarily mean that this species was part of the exact line of evolution that led to us, but it gives us a look at what characteristics evolved first, and how and when the split occured.

And now you can see why I'm a Roark fangirl

Zonkers, I really have forgotten my past Bio class. I mean Chordata, not Arthropoda.

Yeah, we are still related to the flea-eating monkeys.

Spearow May 20th, 2009 9:35 PM

Quote:

Well, the mystery is now solved.
I don't know about that! Discoveries, even important ones like this, are never really a "case closed". It's more like an opening of thousands of new windows. There's no solution, just more questions.

That's why science is so cool. :] Anyway, this is pretty exciting. I kinda like evolutionary biology - not that I know much about it, but I find it interesting.

Mitchman May 21st, 2009 2:48 AM

I wanna know where the split happened though. It seems like the first true ancestors of ours were technically reptilian of sorts meaning the split seperated the human race with some reptiles. But that would be crazy not to mention unheard of. But I would love the have scales....

"Shadow Lugia" May 21st, 2009 7:25 AM

An interesting find, indeed...

I wish I had a tail :/

Amaruuk May 21st, 2009 7:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yamikarasu (Post 4658872)
Actually, we are still technically primates, so maybe you both should study more. (I kid) :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Rigel| (Post 4660058)
Zonkers, I really have forgotten my past Bio class. I mean Chordata, not Arthropoda.

Yeah, we are still related to the flea-eating monkeys.

Guys, I never said we weren't primates. I merely corrected the word arthropods.

Also, Chordata is all vertebrates, anything with a backbone. Birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish have them, too, as well as all other mammals. :/

The split is between the primates that became lemurs and such and the primates that became monkeys, apes, and us. End of story. The lesson here is to pay more attention. :3

Nnoitra Jiruga May 21st, 2009 5:11 PM

Cool~
Didn't know we had tails > 3 That's an interesting discovery ^^

kingofjokers May 22nd, 2009 4:16 PM

awesome that tail would slow me down buy would be awesome to use my tail in soccer and basketball


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