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Brought to you by the very talented Scicurious (if you're not reading her posts, you are really missing out). Dare we start an LOLFossil competition?

[And wouldn't you know it, another one of my photographs has wound up in the 'Upcoming' section of icanhascheezburger.com. It is one of my favorites; two snow leopards I photographed at the Bronx Zoo in the summer of 2006.]

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That reminds me of my t-shirt "Out of the ooze and born to cruise", except your depiction represents more up-to-date thinking about the transition from water to land, and represents an actual fossil, not a generic walking fish!

By Raymond Minton (not verified) on 12 Feb 2009 #permalink