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365M-year-old arm
bone fossil key clue in sea-to-land evolution Courtesy of
Kalliopi Monoyios, via Scripps Howard News Service The fossilized bone
is shown with a drawing of what the
creature may have looked like. Rudimentary arms allowed
the animal to lift its body.
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A drawing of what the creature may have looked like! Why don't they produce an actual transitional form? There would be trillions of them. They could then collect the millions of dollars in rewards offered for proof of Evolution! See Reward for Proof of Evolution |
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - A 365 million-year-old arm bone
fossil found in Pennsylvania came from one of the first creatures able
to do push-ups, an evolutionary step that was necessary for animals to
move from the sea to dry land.
When the animal lived, there were no vertebrates on land, and the oceans were a place of fierce, toothy meat eaters living a predatory life of eat or be eaten. It was into this hostile environment that a 2-foot-long animal that was more than a fish and less than a true amphibian made its brief appearance in the fossil record, said researcher Neil Shubin. |
Stated as if this was a fact! They don't know this for sure. |
| The four-legged creature had a humerus, or upper arm bone. Such a bone, far different from the flipper bones of fish, gave the creature an important new ability - it could raise its upper body like an athlete doing push-ups. "This animal was there for just a brief moment in time," said Shubin, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was only later that we start seeing in the fossil record things that commonly walked on land." The animal's upper arm bone shows that evolution was already preparing vertebrates for their grand invasion of the world beyond the beach and the eventual appearance on land of amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals. | Why was it a brief appearance? Any transitional form would have to reproduce for millions of years before evolving into something better. |
| "It could have evolved this for a variety of reasons, including pushing its head up out of the water to breathe or to walk around in shallow water," Shubin said. "And we can't exclude the possibility that it walked on land." He said other similar tetrapods from around the same period are known to have had both gills and lungs and, thus, could breathe either under or above the water. The animal's arm bone fossil has a bony crest that formed the anchor for powerful chest, or pectoral, muscles. "That is the muscle used when you do a push-up or a bench press," Shubin said. "And that is the muscle that is super-emphasized in this animal." | Things cannot evolve by trying to walk or pushing their heads up out the water! The muscles a man developed by exercising will not be passed on to his son! |
| The tetrapod fossil was discovered in a road cut in a part of western Pennsylvania. The road construction revealed layers of rock that were laid down as sediment when the area was covered by a vast inland sea. | Here is the only truth in this whole article: a small bone was found in Pennsylvania buried in sediments laid down by moving water! |
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