what a curious animal! non-burrowing, active newborns, and related to elephants?
1 posted on
06/27/2014 5:36:33 PM PDT by
blueplum
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2 posted on
06/27/2014 5:38:43 PM PDT by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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3 posted on
06/27/2014 5:38:48 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: blueplum
The Hyrax is most closely related to Elephants.
5 posted on
06/27/2014 5:41:28 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
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6 posted on
06/27/2014 5:41:29 PM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: blueplum
Where are the tusks? Does it eat peanuts too?
8 posted on
06/27/2014 5:45:05 PM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: blueplum
A gene here, a gene there...
9 posted on
06/27/2014 5:45:54 PM PDT by
MUDDOG
To: blueplum
Most likely no relation to elephants.
Remember the time when taxonomists thought that the giant panda was a giant raccoon rather than a bear?
10 posted on
06/27/2014 5:46:39 PM PDT by
Olog-hai
To: blueplum
If you put him in the zoo in Wash DC, he lets everyone punch him in the shoulder.
Later he begs to go to lunch with those same people.
He swells with pride if photographed with them.
11 posted on
06/27/2014 5:48:18 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: blueplum
God created elephants so that rinos can take over.
13 posted on
06/27/2014 5:54:37 PM PDT by
sagar
To: blueplum
given the scientific name Macroscelides micusWhy do scientist have to come with such stupid sounding names?
14 posted on
06/27/2014 5:54:59 PM PDT by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: blueplum
African Scientists Develop Shrink Ray!
16 posted on
06/27/2014 5:59:50 PM PDT by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: blueplum
“Sports red fur”
Another one of them one per centers. Probably drives one of them ritzy Ford Mavericks.
22 posted on
06/27/2014 6:18:47 PM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueplum
Impossible!
24 posted on
06/27/2014 6:27:46 PM PDT by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: blueplum
” Biologists plan to return to Africa in the coming months to outfit the new mammals with miniscule radio collars to learn more about their habits, Dumbacher said.”
It weighs less than an ounce, and they plan to put a radio collar on them. I do think they’re kidding us.
26 posted on
06/27/2014 6:48:08 PM PDT by
kitkat
(STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
To: blueplum
Great! More areas off limits to progress because of its habitat.
29 posted on
06/27/2014 7:42:25 PM PDT by
stillfree?
(Rome is Burning)
To: blueplum
Always knew Rat politicians were related to GOPe elephant politicians.
Nothing new here....
30 posted on
06/27/2014 7:46:45 PM PDT by
Osage Orange
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To: blueplum
A mouselike mammal related to elephants is not a new discovery, we have known about them for a long time. Their called the GOP leadership.
31 posted on
06/27/2014 9:17:27 PM PDT by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: blueplum; Olog-hai; smokingfrog; Oztrich Boy; BenLurkin
Elephant Shrew vs elephant:
Elephant Shrews belong to the super-order Afrotheria which includes Aardvarks, dugongs, manitees, hyrax and elephants.
Based on DNA analysis, they split apart from elephants around 105 million years ago, so the relationships are not all that close.
blueplum post #15: "...and if the elephant (or mouse) DNA branched into so many variations, why didn’t gorilla DNA? (I know the Christian answer but I’m always interested in the evolutionist perspective)"
HiTech RedNeck post #17: "Evo answer would be: LUCK"
No, the explanation is that separation of elephants from elephant-shrews took place around 105 million years ago, making them only distantly related.
By contrast: separations of pre-humans from gorillas (7), chimps (5) & orangutans (12) all happened within the past few million years.
That's why we are more closely related to great apes than elephants are to elephant-shrews.
32 posted on
07/12/2014 9:43:22 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
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