Ancient Seal Fossil found in Arctic

[Iron Woode]

Fossil Pinniped story

This is pretty cool stuff.

All I've ever found were trilobites, shell fish and some ancient corals and related things.

 

[Killmenow]

neat, I should go see it.

 

[JSFLY]

Congrats you just made god die a little bit more.

 

[nakedfrog]

Pretty cool.

 

[geno]

Shopped. Evolution is a lie.

 

[magreen]

Puijila is now the oldest evidence of a pinniped known to science, and the team eventually recovered about a surprising two-thirds of the complete skeleton ? including a penis bone that determined the specimen's gender.

There's a penis bone? I thought that male sexual organs develop in the fetus from organs that resemble female organs, and it's not a skeletal change. Ok, well the human female hip bone gets wider, but is that even true in animals?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: magreen

Puijila is now the oldest evidence of a pinniped known to science, and the team eventually recovered about a surprising two-thirds of the complete skeleton ? including a penis bone that determined the specimen's gender.

There's a penis bone? I thought that male sexual organs develop in the fetus from organs that resemble female organs, and it's not a skeletal change. Ok, well the human female hip bone gets wider, but is that even true in animals?

other animals also have penis bones, all of 3 seconds on google would have answered that, and youd get pics! :Q

 

[Zim Hosein]

Doesn't look like a seal!

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Doesn't look like a seal!

LOL

cheers Zim!!!! :beer::beer:

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: JSFLY
Congrats you just made god die a little bit more.

Fool, God threw it there.

 

[funkymatt]

This is awefully similar to the whale ancestor they found in pakistan, lemme find some links...

ah yeah...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1553008.stm

 

[Rubycon]

WTF is that THING?