125-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals the early evolution of hair and spines

phys.org ^ | October 14, 2015 | Provided by: University of Chicago Medical Center

[Red Badger]

Probably till Jesus returns............................

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Looks like a rat.”

Tastes like chicken!

[djf]

That’s my thought.
Basically, a New York city rat.

[metmom]

ping

[metmom]

"With the complex structural features and variation identified in this fossil, we now have conclusive evidence that many fundamental mammalian characteristics were already well-established some 125 million years, in the age of dinosaurs," Luo said.

Who would have thought?

[SgtHooper]

The GOPe is paying particular attention to this development.

[bert]

there was an error in your post

you used the term evolutionist when you should have used scientist

[grey_whiskers]

Bernie Sanders in his youth!

[gleeaikin]

Evolutionists did not hold that there could not be evidence that was 60 million years older, they merely did not have evidence that this was true. Now they do have the evidence and they are very pleased. However, the earlier mammalian types are almost 100 million years older than this creature, so who knows exactly when these particular attributes first evolved. More evidence needs to be found.

[Red Badger]

I see the resemblance!...............

[Red Badger]

Perhaps mammals and reptiles were concurrent adaptations to different niches in the environment..................

[fishtank]

It means that the fossil record supports a violently turbulent flood sedimentation chronology, with high speed long range transport of sand, gravel and boulders, causing the sudden death and burial of billions of creatures, with VERY uneven deaths occurring up and down the rock column -- -- not a gradualistic, millions of years, slower-than-molasses process.

[tacticalogic]

It means that the fossil record supports a violently turbulent flood sedimentation chronology, with high speed long range transport of sand, gravel and boulders, causing the sudden death and burial of billions of creatures, with VERY uneven deaths occurring up and down the rock column -- -- not a gradualistic, millions of years, slower-than-molasses process.

And a curiously selective sudden death and burial, killing all of certain species rendering them extinct, while leaving no evidence of having killed any members of other species.

[YHAOS]

What is your conclusion?

Thanks for the many BEEPs!