Archives
December 2007
12/31/07
12/31/07
12/30/07
12/30/07
12/29/07
12/28/07
12/28/07
12/28/07
12/27/07
12/27/07
12/27/07
12/27/07
12/26/07
12/26/07
12/26/07
12/26/07
12/25/07
12/24/07
12/24/07
12/24/07
12/24/07
12/24/07
12/23/07
12/22/07
12/21/07
12/21/07
12/21/07
12/21/07
12/20/07
12/20/07
12/20/07
12/20/07
12/19/07
Look! It's a Proto-Whale!
12/19/07
12/19/07
12/19/07
12/18/07
12/18/07
12/18/07
12/18/07
12/17/07
12/17/07
12/17/07
12/17/07
12/17/07
12/16/07
12/16/07
12/16/07
12/15/07
12/14/07
12/13/07
12/13/07
12/13/07
12/13/07
12/12/07
12/12/07
12/12/07
12/12/07
12/11/07
12/11/07
12/11/07
12/11/07
12/10/07
12/10/07
12/10/07
12/10/07
12/7/07
12/7/07
12/7/07
12/7/07
12/7/07
12/7/07
12/6/07
12/6/07
12/6/07
12/6/07
12/5/07
12/5/07
12/5/07
12/5/07
12/4/07
12/4/07
12/4/07
12/4/07
12/3/07
12/3/07
12/3/07
12/3/07
12/2/07
12/1/07
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
5:53:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Handsome devil, innit? This is what the ancestors of whales might look like:
The creature is called Indohyus, and recently dug up fossils reveal some crucial evolutionary similarities between it and water-dwelling cetaceans, such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.
For years, the hippo has been the leading candidate for the closest land relative because of its similar DNA and whale-like features. So some scientists were skeptical of the new hypothesis by an Ohio anatomy professor whose work was being published Thursday in the journal Nature.
Still, some researchers have been troubled that hippos seem to have lived in the wrong part of the world and popped up too recently to be a whale ancestor.
See, this is the fun thing about science -- you're always in the process of finding out new things. Even when it seems just too weird, say, when the ancestors to the largest animals that ever lived look like juiced-up rodents.
Written by johnmscalzi Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | 
digg this
5:53:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Look! It's a Proto-Whale!
Handsome devil, innit? This is what the ancestors of whales might look like:
The creature is called Indohyus, and recently dug up fossils reveal some crucial evolutionary similarities between it and water-dwelling cetaceans, such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.
For years, the hippo has been the leading candidate for the closest land relative because of its similar DNA and whale-like features. So some scientists were skeptical of the new hypothesis by an Ohio anatomy professor whose work was being published Thursday in the journal Nature.
Still, some researchers have been troubled that hippos seem to have lived in the wrong part of the world and popped up too recently to be a whale ancestor.
See, this is the fun thing about science -- you're always in the process of finding out new things. Even when it seems just too weird, say, when the ancestors to the largest animals that ever lived look like juiced-up rodents.
Written by johnmscalzi Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | digg this
This entry has 4 comments: (Add your own)
-
I'm with monponset!!!
-
stopping by to say Merry Christmas.
Cindy -
If more of those science types would work on curing cancer instead of this nonsense, I could start smoking Newports again.
12/19/07 9:06 PM
Helen