No self respecting velvet worm would dare claim this thing as an ancestor
ping
Gonna need it. Looks like the movie The Tingler: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006TLZ5XQ?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_aiv_t3&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_aiv_t3-20
(note shadow of The Tingler in the background)
Looks like a caterpillar.
What’s the difference between a Hallucigenia sparsa and a complex sentence?
A complex sentence has a pause at the end of its clause; a Hallucigenia sparsa has claws at the ends of its paws.
And, no, I don’t have many friends.
The ancestor of the “chupacabra”, I’m guessing. :)
“An exciting outcome of this study is that it turns our current understanding of the evolutionary tree of arthropods — the group including spiders, insects and crustaceans — upside down,” said Dr Javier Ortega-Hernandez, the paper’s co-author. “Most gene-based studies suggest that arthropods and velvet worms are closely related to each other; however, our results indicate that arthropods are actually closer to water bears, or tardigrades, a group of hardy microscopic animals best known for being able to survive the vacuum of space and sub-zero temperatures — leaving velvet worms as distant cousins.”
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There are a lot of healthy disputes in biology compared to the fraudulent consensus of climatology. BTW, water bears are fascinating creatures. I had to look them up.
"We came to your planet in peace, riding a meteorite. Thanks for the algae."
Assistant: Professor, can you read this ancient script ?
Professor: No. I’ve never seen it before. We’ve discovered a new language. Congratulations to us. We’ll be famous.
Assistant: Oh, wait. The page is upside down.
This whole concept that creatures evolved in sequence doesn’t really fit reality. Creatures do evolve according to environment.
The really puzzling part, to me, is bees and flowers. They had to be created or evolve at exactly the same time.
Oh? Outer space, did you say? These little fellows are space aliens? Hmmmmmm...
And they evolved into this?
Oh dear...
Phrases like, “an exiting outcome” and “a long and heated debate” only show the irrelevance to today’s world of such a myopic vision of a very narrow segment of the scientific community.
I once met a farmer who had a rick full of corncobs. I asked him why he had so many and he said he was collecting them. I then asked why he was collecting corncobs and he said, “because aint’ no one else doing it.”
Perhaps these guys are gently pulling our collective legs.