Date: 8/07/2016 21:30:00
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 920118
Subject: Tails may have helped ancient animals

How tails may have helped ancient animals make the transition from water to land

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the water’s edge — and scientists say some of that help may have come from their tails.

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:32:33
From: furious
ID: 920120
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

Shock news: Evolution favours the best adaptions…

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:33:55
From: roughbarked
ID: 920121
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

furious said:


Shock news: Evolution favours the best adaptions…

it does?

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:34:04
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 920122
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

CrazyNeutrino said:

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the water’s edge — and scientists say some of that help may have come from their tails.

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Who needs to clamber out of the water when you can just wait for the tide to go out?

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:35:53
From: roughbarked
ID: 920124
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

Witty Rejoinder said:


CrazyNeutrino said:

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the water’s edge — and scientists say some of that help may have come from their tails.

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Who needs to clamber out of the water when you can just wait for the tide to go out?

Laziness is the basis of progress?

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:38:27
From: dv
ID: 920129
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

Ancient tails of wonder

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:39:28
From: roughbarked
ID: 920132
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

dv said:


Ancient tails of wonder

What a wag.

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Date: 8/07/2016 21:40:20
From: dv
ID: 920134
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

CrazyNeutrino said:

monumental feat

zing

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Date: 9/07/2016 12:49:03
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 920498
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

dv said:


CrazyNeutrino said:
monumental feat

zing

plop

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Date: 10/07/2016 03:01:35
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 920891
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

CrazyNeutrino said:


How tails may have helped ancient animals make the transition from water to land

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the water’s edge — and scientists say some of that help may have come from their tails.

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Ever seen a mudskipper? Of course you have. That’s what they do. But salamanders, the most ancient forms of amphibians still alive, only seem to be able to wiggle their tails sideways (like a snake) which helps a bit, but not as much as a mudskipper.

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Date: 10/07/2016 07:48:30
From: roughbarked
ID: 920905
Subject: re: Tails may have helped ancient animals

mollwollfumble said:


CrazyNeutrino said:

How tails may have helped ancient animals make the transition from water to land

Clambering out of the water and up sandy shorelines was a monumental feat for some of the first creatures to walk on land. These ancient animals needed all the help they could get to push beyond the water’s edge — and scientists say some of that help may have come from their tails.

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Ever seen a mudskipper? Of course you have. That’s what they do. But salamanders, the most ancient forms of amphibians still alive, only seem to be able to wiggle their tails sideways (like a snake) which helps a bit, but not as much as a mudskipper.

OK, so the salamanders were trying out their new legs.

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