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shilohproject
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Message 1 of 3 (30027)
01-23-2003 10:19 AM


Did anybody see the AP story on Wednesday, January 22, about the discovery of a fossil now named: Microraptor gui?
I'm sure we'll need to wait for more peer input on this, but it is interesting.
BTW, in addition to my earlier suggestions that penguins, polar bears, and the platypus could perhaps be considered living transitional species (which no one addressed...oops!), I'd like to add the alligator gar. It has a "lung" and can breath air if water conditions are under-oxygenated. (Also, it is the best physical fit for the leviation of Job that I can think of, except of course for that little part about breathing fire, etc. And it is of North American extraction...)
-Shiloh

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David unfamous
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01-23-2003 11:18 AM
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01-23-2003 10:19 AM


The thread I posted about this had some good replies with links. Check them out:
http://EvC Forum: Microraptor gui - 4 'winged' fossil found in China. -->EvC Forum: Microraptor gui - 4 'winged' fossil found in China.

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Karl
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01-23-2003 12:00 PM
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01-23-2003 10:19 AM


Gars indeed do look very much like reconstructions of the likes of Acanthostega.
Australian lungfish are very similar as well. Illustrative of what the first 'legs' were probably used for.

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