Date: 15/12/2012 17:44:33
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 241026
Subject: Thrown the Cat

Ancient fossils found in South Australia lived on land, argues one researcher, whose controversial claim has huge implications for the tree of life.

Professor Gregory Retallack of the University of Oregon, reports his findings today in the journal Nature.

“This discovery has implications for the tree of life, because it removes Ediacaran fossils from the ancestry of animals,” says Retallack, who is originally from Australia.

The Ediacaran period ended around 540 million years ago, just before the Cambrian period, which saw a massive explosion in marine animal life.

Since Ediacaran fossils were first discovered in South Australia they have been generally regarded as marine invertebrates and an evolutionary precursor to the Cambrian marine explosion.

But now, Retallack has thrown the cat

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/12/13/3653112.htm?topic=ancient&WT.svl=healthscience3

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:46:35
From: party_pants
ID: 241029
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Date: 15/12/2012 17:47:03
From: OCDC
ID: 241030
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party_pants said:


I agree.

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:47:25
From: party_pants
ID: 241031
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

Peak Warming Man said:

But now, Retallack has thrown the cat


Is he still flogging that idea?

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:47:57
From: party_pants
ID: 241032
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

not sure how that empty post happened.

ah well, play on.

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:48:48
From: OCDC
ID: 241033
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party_pants said:


not sure how that empty post happened.

ah well, play on.


It was one of your best, IISSM.

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:49:56
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 241035
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

>>Is he still flogging that idea?

Don’t know, first I’ve heard of it and the ABC Science and Karaoke work experience reporter is all over it.

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Date: 15/12/2012 17:59:17
From: Bubblecar
ID: 241039
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

I find myself agreeing with the establishment that Retallack talks a lot of bollocks.

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Date: 15/12/2012 18:01:45
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 241041
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

What presents did you get Bubbles, did you get shiny things, comestables, clothes, objectdart? what?, what did you get?

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Date: 15/12/2012 18:09:17
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 241044
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

Peak Warming Man said:


What presents did you get Bubbles, did you get shiny things, comestables, clothes, objectdart? what?, what did you get?

What he really wants is toilet paper.

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Date: 16/12/2012 15:25:04
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 241234
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

Witty Rejoinder said:


Peak Warming Man said:

What presents did you get Bubbles, did you get shiny things, comestables, clothes, objectdart? what?, what did you get?

What he really wants is toilet paper.

If that is the case, stop giving him “The shits”.

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Date: 16/12/2012 19:13:37
From: Michael V
ID: 241346
Subject: re: Thrown the Cat

I think there is plenty of good evidence that the Ediacaran fossils were animals. Bilateral symmetry is displayed in many fossils found in the Ediacaran Hills and equivalent sites worldwide. Bilateral symmetry is an animal characteristic.

However, that said, Greg Retallack has many good runs on the board, the earliest of these being sorting out the Glossopteris plant from its various parts – which all look different and were described as different species, originally. I look forward to the evidence-based ebb and flow of this argument.

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