Ancestors of Rabbits?
I arrived at office a little early today, so I decided to take a look at what's in the news. And guess what -- this article popped up. I think that someone I know might be slightly interested in this ;).
This article is about the finding of a fossilized skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that is the oldest member of the rabbit family to be found! Haha. Seems like they've found somebody's great-great-great-great-great-great...great-grandfather (or grandmother).
It's really old - about 55 million years old, and is the ancestors of the lagomorphs family. But what's really important is that it provides evidence to say that most modern placental mammals evolved close to, or after the great extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Click here for the full article.
This article is about the finding of a fossilized skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that is the oldest member of the rabbit family to be found! Haha. Seems like they've found somebody's great-great-great-great-great-great...great-grandfather (or grandmother).
It's really old - about 55 million years old, and is the ancestors of the lagomorphs family. But what's really important is that it provides evidence to say that most modern placental mammals evolved close to, or after the great extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The fossilised skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that lived 55 million years ago has been found in Mongolia, Science magazine reports.
Gomphos elkema, as it is known, is the oldest member of the rabbit family ever to be found.
Gomphos was surprisingly similar to modern rabbits - and probably hopped around on its elongated hindlimbs.
The fossil adds weight to the idea that rabbit-like creatures first evolved no earlier than 65 million years ago.
Click here for the full article.
posted by CS at 8:15 AM
3 Comments:
>>... you can just take out your CPU, smash it, get the diamond out, and go mount it on a ring. Afterwhich, you can take the chance to upgrade your PC! :)
wow, idea! bet if that happens, real diamonds may not sell so ex liao :P
but... are synthetic diamonds really just as nice?
wonder if any pple's skin's sensitive to synthetic stuff. :P
oops... sorry i posted on the wrong "thread" pardon me, sorry...
Haha. Its ok.
Yup. In theory they look even nicer than natural diamonds. Basically they are diamonds. Just that they are grown in a lab instead of being dug up outside. Its just like pearls, where there are cultivated ones and natural ones. So I doubt there'll be any alergies to it...
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