Those darned Mesozoic mammals...

[Mallon]

... keep showing up with reptile-like inner ear bones:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070314/sc_nm/mammal_fossil_dc

 

[localz]

Lol. Neat. I bet he was a cute lil fella.

 

[shernren]

Maybe the Flood hydrologically sorted them based on their jaw arrangements. You know, critters with better jaws float longer than critters with lousier jaws.

 

[theFijian]

but it's still a ... critter! It hasn't evolved into a butterfly or anyfink!!

 

[Assyrian]

Maybe the Flood hydrologically sorted them based on their jaw arrangements. You know, critters with better jaws float longer than critters with lousier jaws.

I looked up 'sort' in a thesaurus and it is another word for 'kind'. That proves it.

 

[gluadys]

I noticed a link to this article when checking out the story on the early mammal

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2032480,00.html

I think this is the kind of article creationists need to see more of. It shows that we can learn so much more from fossils than is commonly understood and that we didn't need to be there in person to figure out what happened.

 

[Mallon]

I think we should post more popular science articles like this here. I run across numerous palaeo articles several times a week. The theory of evolution gets such a bad rap among YECs for not being science, but the amount of research being generated strongly suggests otherwise. I ran into a great article the other day, in fact, that discusses a new fossil find that supports the monophyly of Afrotheria, a clade that was previously only supported by molecular analyses. Cut from the abstract:

"The phylogenetic pattern and timing of the radiation of mammals, especially the geographical origins of major crown clades, are areas of controversy among molecular biologists, morphologists and palaeontologists. Molecular phylogeneticists have identified an Afrotheria clade, which includes several taxa as different as tenrecs (Tenrecidae) , golden moles (Chrysochloridae), elephant-shrews (Macroscelididae), aardvarks (Tubulidentata) and paenungulates (elephants, sea cows and hyracoids). Molecular data also suggest a Cretaceous African origin for Afrotheria within Placentalia followed by a long period of endemic evolution on the Afro-Arabian continent after the mid-Cretaceous Gondwanan breakup (approx. 105-25 Myr ago). However, there was no morphological support for such a natural grouping so far. Here, we report new dental and postcranial evidence of Eocene stem hyrax and macroscelidid from North Africa that, for the first time, provides a congruent phylogenetic view with the molecular Afrotheria clade."

This is another great example of different realms of science coming together in agreement over evolution (i.e., multiple attestation).

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

I think we should post more popular science articles like this here. I run across numerous palaeo articles several times a week. The theory of evolution gets such a bad rap among YECs for not being science, but the amount of research being generated strongly suggests otherwise.

I think that's a fantastic idea.

I know virtually nothing about science whatsoever and mostly allow the scientific consensus on evolutionary biology to govern my anthropology because I honestly see no biblical or theological reason not to.... so not only would it be a great idea for the YECs, but you might help out a friend, too!

 

[Jadis40]

Along those lines, I found two more stories:

A link that describes an entirely new species of cat:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070315075842.htm

And another link that describes a snail-like creature:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312091713.htm

 

[gluadys]

Along those lines, I found two more stories:

A link that describes an entirely new species of cat:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070315075842.htm

And another link that describes a snail-like creature:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312091713.htm

Whee! Good ole ROM! They have a marvellous set of Burgess Shale fossils on public display. I wonder if this one will be in it next time I go there. The ROM is less than 30 minutes away from me by streetcar.

 

[Mallon]

I hear they're refurbishing the dino exhibit at the ROM. Looking forward to seeing that...