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Old 03-27-2003, 06:30 AM   #1
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Default Oldest fossil salamanders discovered

More very cool stuff from China:

New Species Of Earliest-known Salamanders Found In China
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Old 03-27-2003, 07:07 AM   #2
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you blasphemer. how DARE you believe an atheistic secular humanist red chinese LIE like evilution! the wholly babble spells it out quite clearly: an invisible pink unicorn named Jehovah created the world in six days, and made man from the mud.

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Cool article (but then again, I’m biased).

“Indeed, extant cryptobranchid salamanders can be regarded as living fossils whose structures have remained little changed for more than 160 million years.”

See…see? Living fossils = no evolution! /creationist silliness

“The fossil also shows that the vertebral column and the limbs are not yet formed, and that the animal’s internal gills remain.”

Huh. I thought all salamanders had external gills, whether as larvae or neotonic adults. Any Cryptobranchid experts around? Are internal gills the ancestral trait?
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