Another transitional fossil found

[Mallon]

You won't hear this from Answers in Genesis, but another transitional fossil was just reported that has a middle ear half-way between that of a 'reptile' and a mammal. Here's the news release:

Long-sought fossil mammal with transitional middle ear

We've actually found fossils with this transitional feature before, so I don't know why the news report refers to it as the "long-sought transitional middle ear".

 

[shernren]

Maybe it's the long-short transitional middle ear.

 

[philadiddle]

It's obviously a unique species, and therefore not a transitional.

 

[Papias]

Thanks for posting this cool find!

Mallon wrote:

We've actually found fossils with this transitional feature before, so I don't know why the news report refers to it as the "long-sought transitional middle ear".

Because finding "another example" sells fewer newspapers than something "long-sought". It's unfortunate that media over-hypes finds, often making it sound like we haven't already found hundreds of transitional fossils. So it goes, but it's a neat find nonetheless!

Papias

 

[Choose Wisely]

It's obviously a unique species, and therefore not a transitional.

Ditto

 

[theFijian]

Ditto

yeah but it's still reptile....err

 

[philadiddle]

yeah but it's still reptile....err

No, it's obviously a mammal.

 

[callmeMurph]

yeah but it's still reptile....err

No, it's obviously a mammal.

Its obviously a reptammal.... or is it a mamtile?

 

[Assyrian]

If it was a maptile did it come in four colours?

 

[AnswersInHovind]

I'd wait until the AiG scientists get a look at it. This will probably be another fake like Lucy or misreading like tiktalik.

An earbone proving evolution - rofl.

 

[Mallon]

I'd wait until the AiG scientists get a look at it.

Since when has anyone at AiG ever taken a first-hand look at a fossil?

This will probably be another fake like Lucy

Lucy wasn't a fake.

or misreading like tiktalik.

I don't think the AiG folks are in a position to judge whether Tiktaalik was misread if they've never seen the fossil for themselves. I'd sooner take it from a professional palaeontologist who has actually studied the thing in painstaking detail.

An earbone proving evolution - rofl.

Laugh it up! YECism doesn't explain it.

 

[Harry3142]

Is this the fossil that was found in Germany, and is dated to circa 45 million years ago? If so, that animal's descendants were wiped out long before they could have evolved. The problem is that massive meteorites have hit this planet north of the equator since then, including one that hit Germany itself about 15 million years ago, leaving a crater measuring 15 miles across.

Other impacts have been:

Canada, about 38 million years ago, leaving a crater 17 miles in diameter.

Chesapeake Bay, about 35 million years ago, leaving a crater 53 miles in diameter.

Canada again, about 23 million years ago, leaving a crater 15 miles in diameter.

Tajikistan, about 10 million years ago, leaving a crater 32 miles in diameter.

 

[Mallon]

Is this the fossil that was found in Germany, and is dated to circa 45 million years ago?

No.

If so, that animal's descendants were wiped out long before they could have evolved.

If you're suggesting that every meteorite to strike the earth has resulted in complete extinction of all life on earth, that simply isn't true.

 

[theFijian]

If you're suggesting that every meteorite to strike the earth has resulted in complete extinction of all life on earth, that simply isn't true.

One wonders then how he came to be typing that sentence

 

[Mallon]

One wonders then how he came to be typing that sentence

I'm guessing Harry subscribes to multiple de novo creation events between meteorite impacts.

 

[Siyha]

I'm guessing Harry subscribes to multiple de novo creation events between meteorite impacts.

So then are the meteorites like God's reset button?

 

[Mallon]

So then are the meteorites like God's reset button?

That'd be my guess. Maybe Harry can enlighten us.