Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Interesting new dinosaur news


Pterodactyl fossil fills gaps in evolutionary tale - CNN.com: "The researchers say more study is needed to substantiate the idea of that evolution could occur relatively quickly, and that whole parts of a plant or animal's body could change at once."

"The combination of features indicates that the primitive pterodactyls evolved relatively quickly, and that certain groups of features changed at the same time. Traditional evolutionary theory suggests that one feature -- a tail for instance -- would slowly evolve over time. "

Comment -- This article emphasizes the validity of something I read (somewhere) along the lines of "Evolution is a fact; Darwin had a theory about how it worked (natural selection)."

It's cool that after so many years, scientists are still coming up with new questions about how evolution works.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great pic choice on this one!