A team of researchers based in Namibia, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom now report fossils from a Namibian deposit that seem to be animals and apparently date to about 760 million years ago. This extends the known time span of animals on the planet by about 17 percent....
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I have a childhood memory of a troop of baboons, waiting among nearby rocks on a sun baked kopje, taking notice of nearby humans and watching and waiting until they saw a weakness and finally moving in for the kill, barking, grabbing, ripping livid flesh with long sharp canines, howling like wolves…
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Image: Richard Ditch, 2008 [larger view].
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Get to know that little skull. Scientists are going to be talking about it for centuries.
As researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Nature, the skull--and along with other parts of a skeleton--turned up in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Several different dating methods gave the same…
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Thank you for posting this, I just found out the other day and it has been out there "forever". The article and the editorial. Haven't read it yet, but a scan says they claim finding literary thousands of those sponges mineralized "skeletons".
The interesting astrobiological bit so far is that they hypothesize these immobile predators scavenged and so buried floating organics of oceans and ushered in increased oxygen to _cause_ the snowball Earth some people have suspected caused complex multicellulars. Way to reverse the story!
"Proponent of Evolution" aka Rob Hood @ 2:
Not as funny as your idea that you can change your 'nym and people won't recognize your undertreated mental illness. "Secular depressives"? Really? Just go back to whining about "flouride" and HAARP, Rob.
Bingo!
"In your face gayism" sounds fun. Where do I sign up?
More importantly, can I send it to Rob along with a singing telegram?