Comments on: It Was Just an 11 Million Year Vacation

By: David Lewis

David Lewis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:34:12 +0000

“And again in 1997 a pair honeymooning in Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi saw a fish like a Coelacanth hanging in a market, but it was brown rather than blue. Curious, one of them bought the fish, and ended up testing its DNA”

Romantic…

By: a1c

a1c — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:42:53 +0000

His holiness, the Pope, declares fire ants extinct.

By: lizdini

lizdini — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:00:23 +0000

[quote]karphi said: “This interesting story has been circulating around recently.
It’s sold in local meatmarkets, has local name, and is completely recognized by the local people, etc… So why is it, that the only “discovery” that counts is when a Western biologist finds it and slaps on a Latin name?”[/quote]

They don’t have to be western. Just biologists. When something is discovered, it means by science. And while the locals knew the animal rather intimately, they probably weren’t aware of it’s status as a fossil.

By: mbhatnagar

mbhatnagar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:03:55 +0000

[quote]PresMatt said: “pretty much all of asia”[/quote]

uh, with exception of the Indian sub continent..

By: Beautiful Confusion

Beautiful Confusion — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:08:10 +0000

[quote]Dave said: “Does this mean that there’s a chance that the dodo bird could still be alive?

Of course, I’m reminded of what was said when the last dodo bird became extinct: “Tastes like chicken.”.

Maybe, just maybe, one of these days, people will be able to recreate the dodo bird from it’s genetic information:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=187135

Dave”[/quote]

ah man! you beat me to it. I was going to say: Does this mean that there’s still a chance that I could run into a Do do bird? That would be awesome.

By: CountriKitten

CountriKitten — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:45:31 +0000

lahuard said: "And like they taught us in 9th grade biology, the easy way to remember this is:

Did King Phillip Come Over For Game Sunday?"

2 things...I don't remember learning "Domain" what are the domains? also...My 11th grade Anatomy & Physiology teacher taught us another one... it was Kings Play Chess On Friday Getting Stoned!

By: Cathryn

Cathryn — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:49:35 +0000

ooh, yay. another rat species to spread diseases among many. hooray

By: Hugh G. Rection

Hugh G. Rection — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:11:16 +0000

I have one thing to say..

Most modern scientists are complete MORONS..

They thought the ceolocanth was dead.. because no one had ever seen one except in fossils. Now that they catch one.. how dumb do you think they feel? Thinking they know everything.. then POW.. a living dinosaur is caught right out of the damn swimming pool.

And they still scoff at the idea of there being some sort of prehistoric Behemoth living in the ocean..

Then they catch a VARIANT from a Ceolocanth?? Jesus..

It seems like it’s only AFTER we discover something new that we keep encountering them. Stunning these STUPID.. Bald headed, wig wearing, butt-crack showing, know-it-all, low expectation having ass Scientists..

By: smokefoot

smokefoot — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:21:58 +0000

The interest in Coelacanths is so high that there is fear that they are being fished to extintion.
It is unlikely that the dodo bird can be recreated, since there are no museum samples frozen/stuffed left. There was a stuffed dodo in a museum at one time, but someone threw it out, apparently not feeling it was important.

By: froggy

froggy — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:25:47 +0000

(GMBurns says:

(I'm sure it's delicious, but it'll never match iguana tail finely sliced into little silver-dollar sized sections and fried in butter with _just_ a drop of lemon. )

"I had his liver with a nice Chianti." Dr Lector