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    reddingofish: "evolution can happen very quickly" Creationist have been saying that all along. more »
    korybing: Just when I think the oceans couldn't get any weirder. Every time I read about the oceans, ancient or modern, I read about something absolutely bizarre. more »
    AvenueOfTheStrongest: Eventually the the Ediacarans escaped destruction by casting their minds forward in time into the bodies of beetle creatures.... more »
    syafiqjabar of Mars: Does this mean there could have been complex life on Mars once despite the allegedly short 'wet' period? more »
    Grey_Area: The leaf shaped critters superficially resemble the Sea Pen, a colonial soft-bodied octocoral. I suppose the Edicarans in the model are entire individ... more »
    0kami: "sacks of mud, disks, hubcaps and mattresses." WTF? How Lovecraftian. Any reimagined pics? more »
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: It's amazing how much tiny changes in DNA can cause such huge differences in species. It's been millions of years and we're so different from chimps, ... more »
    Daumier: "Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees but rather through a series of progenitors starting from a distant common ancestor that once occupied the anci... more »
    LindsayGaia: The term "missing link" is a common misconception. There is NO missing link. Evolution isn't like a chain, with one link missing between monkey and ma... more »
    prettycool: Pshaw! Don't those scientists know that the missing link looks like this. more »
    Spaceboy: Did anyone else smile when they read HOMO on the graph? Anyone? more »
    Lassus: I'm not sure how comfortable I am looking at a possibly-teenage naked Hera like this. more »
    reddingofish: All this proves is that an ancient man had sex with a chimp and this is what they got. I don't know why they keep trying to figure out where humans e... more »
    aubreyf: There's no such thing as "the missing link." more »
    Dave Ball: So.. not a cylon then? Or does this come under 'all of this has happened before..' etc? more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: COME ON GUYS!!! Where is the NSFW tag!?!?! more »
    cylon_conspiracy: @ drk_cyde: I'm not very edumacated, but every time I see a picture of what one of our ancestors (or relative of our ancestors) looks like, I get all... more »
    drk_cyde: ...but...but...the bible says... more »
    SuperTuna: This is also the most ancient discovery for the need for a bra. more »
    Faustroll: ...The discovery of Ardi, however, suggests that when we do find that evolutionary break... Stop. Please. We've discovered dozens of "missing links."... more »
  • #paleobiology

    Vanished Precambrian Life Forms Were Like Nothing Before or Since

    For a brief span of time, about 542 million years ago, the world belonged to the Ediacarans, a group of life forms so physiologically unique that biologists have considered giving them their own taxonomic kingdom. More »
  • #madscience

    New Fossil Discovery is the Closest We've Come to the Missing Link

    Humanity has a new older sister. A fossilized skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus or "Ardi" predates Lucy by over a million years. The discovery has led to new insights about human evolution, suggesting previously unknown relationships to our chimpanzee brethren. More »
  • #pterodactylsgrounded

    Were Pterodactyls Too Heavy to Fly?