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morwenThe Independent's science coverage fails today. The platypus has been DNA-sequenced. As far as I can gather, it has been found to fit rather exactly where it was expected to. The Independent claims
They found the animal's genes are indeed an unusual amalgam derived from the disparate worlds of reptiles, birds and mammals.
No they are not. "similar to", yes. "derived from [birds]" NO. unless there was some hot Archaeopteryx/Castorocauda inter-species action going on. which I would rather not know about.
They found the animal's genes are indeed an unusual amalgam derived from the disparate worlds of reptiles, birds and mammals.
No they are not. "similar to", yes. "derived from [birds]" NO. unless there was some hot Archaeopteryx/Castorocauda inter-species action going on. which I would rather not know about.
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Date: 2008-05-08 10:51 am (UTC)Debbie does Jurassic Park?
(Knowing my luck, the quoted species weren't from the Jurassic era*, but seeing as I heard most of the dinos from the movie weren't either...)
I want to know how they choose to explain the Echidna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna) as being in the same group (or whatever the term is, monotremes to be specific)...
Even better, I just read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on Castorocauda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castorocauda)...
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* Hey, Castorocauda ARE jurassic era! What luck!