Archimedes Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 http://www.livescience.com/animals/090727-first-life.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Interesting, I wonder if the lakes had connections to the sea and maybe were used as a shallower birthing area? Similar to what the Salmon and other migrating fish and critter do. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Interesting reading and discovery, but the word "smectite" sounds nasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Well, the scientific community wouldn't accept "Smegma" as an official term. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irradiatus Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hmmm....not sure about the birthing theory. But that's only because when I think of ediacaran fauna, I think of the tiny pleated mattress-like organisms, and wierd little inverts. Somehow I just can't imagine any of those little things "birthing." But that's almost definitely my vertebrate-centric bias speaking. Pretty cool findings though! "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. " - Douglas Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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