Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

[gluadys]

Here is neat new news. An Australian skink species lays eggs in the lowlands, gives birth to live young in mountainous terrain.

Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

 

[Cabal]

inb4 "BUT IT'S STILL A LIZARD!!!!!11111oneeleven"

 

[philadiddle]

Here is neat new news. An Australian skink species lays eggs in the lowlands, gives birth to live young in mountainous terrain.

Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

This is just based on assumptions so it doesn't count for anything.

 

[juvenissun]

Here is neat new news. An Australian skink species lays eggs in the lowlands, gives birth to live young in mountainous terrain.

Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

Quote: "By studying differences among populations that are in different stages of this process, you can begin to put together what looks like the transition from one [birth style] to the other."

Good luck to this idea. If this feature is common and not new, why didn't biologist get this research done already?

 

[gluadys]

Quote: "By studying differences among populations that are in different stages of this process, you can begin to put together what looks like the transition from one [birth style] to the other."

Good luck to this idea. If this feature is common and not new, why didn't biologist get this research done already?

AS it says in the article, most species are either egg-layers or live-birthers. So although they suspected there had been similar transitions before, they couldn't research it as it was happening. This case gives an opportunity to look at what actually happens in such a transition in real time.

 

[juvenissun]

AS it says in the article, most species are either egg-layers or live-birthers. So although they suspected there had been similar transitions before, they couldn't research it as it was happening. This case gives an opportunity to look at what actually happens in such a transition in real time.

No. It said that there are two other species do the same thing.

Quote: Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction. (Related: "Virgin Birth Expected at Christmas—By Komodo Dragon.")

 

[Angelsword777]

This is just based on assumptions so it doesn't count for anything.

I agree, and I love your avatar lol

 

[Assyrian]

This is just based on assumptions so it doesn't count for anything.

Yay! Phil gets the Poe award!

Sorry Angelsword, you have only just joined so this is probably you first time meeting Phil, he actually does agree with evolution, Phil and Cabal were just playing with creationist arguments. But welcome to the forum it is good to have you here.

 

[Willtor]

Here is neat new news. An Australian skink species lays eggs in the lowlands, gives birth to live young in mountainous terrain.

Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

That's nifty. I didn't know there were species making that transition, today. What's more amazing is that they are still the same species (though, perhaps not for long).

 

[shernren]

This is just based on assumptions so it doesn't count for anything.

Indeed! The article is clearly heretical. Everybody knows that there are no antipodeans, much less antipodean scientists.

 

[Assyrian]

Just keep hanging on there shernren.