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Evolution of Mammals Re-evaluated

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shaking-the-tree-to-see-what-falls-out dept.

AaxelB writes "A study described in the New York Times rethinks mammalian evolution. Specifically, that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs had relatively little impact on mammals and that the steps in mammals' evolution happened well before and long after the dinosaurs' death."

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  1. What About the Other Dinosaurs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most paleontologists now think that birds descended from dinosaurs. So in a sense, even dinosaurs in one form escaped the calamity.
    Don't forget varanus komodoensis ... and Strom Thurman, he died out only four years ago and was the most prominent organism to escape the icy grasp of natural selection!
    1. Re:What About the Other Dinosaurs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "...Dinosaurs were created on day 6 of the creation week approximately 6,000 years ago, along with other land animals, and therefore co-existed with humans."

      "...Dinosaurs lived in harmony with other animals, (probably including in the Garden of Eden) eating only plants;" and "pairs of each dinosaur kind were taken onto Noah's Ark during the Great Flood and were preserved from drowning."

      "Dinosaur bones originated during the mass killing of the Flood;" and "some descendants of those dinosaurs taken aboard the Ark still roam the earth today."

      And you can look that up!

    2. Re:What About the Other Dinosaurs? by Monokeros · · Score: 4, Funny

      Easy. Elephants, hippos, alligators, lions, polar bears, and kitty cats were the food for the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs made their way through the dragons, unicorns, hobbits and fairies by the time the flood ended and the rest were spared. They're living on a ranch in Montana now.

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  2. Alternate theory by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most sensible explanation

    1. Re:Alternate theory by franksands · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sorry for the comment abuse, but I just had to post this comment from youtube:

      evilc27 (2 hours ago)
      The fact that we are born babies and evolve into people is evidence enough to dispel the myth of evolution. If we were born monkeys, then there would be billions of monkeys in the world as there are billions of people. This does not equate. People have called me stupid for expressing my facts, but I am far from stupid. I took an IQ test at my church school, and I scored 95. You cannot get more than 100% and so I am in the top 5% of the smartest people in the world. chew on that disbelievers.

      This just made my day.

  3. Re:From a friend by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > a similar analysis for birds, published recently in the journal Biology Letters, revealed that more than 40 avian lineages survived the mass extinctions. Most paleontologists now think that birds descended from dinosaurs. So in a sense, even dinosaurs in one form escaped the calamity.

    In other words, chicken tastes like dinosaur!

    (In Creationist America and Lysenkoist Russia, dinosaurs taste like chicken!)

  4. Re:From a friend by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in a sense, even dinosaurs in one form escaped the calamity. I found it pretty cool.


    It's not so "cool" having to clean dinosaur droppings off my car, though.
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  5. Hrmm... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    But can they shoehorn it into the framework of a 6000 year old Earth?

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