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Hallucigenia
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Hi All,
What is Hallucigenia and what makes it special?
(There may be a free drink for the first correct answer)
Cheers,
China xx
What is Hallucigenia and what makes it special?
(There may be a free drink for the first correct answer)
Cheers,
China xx
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I don't think they thought it really had no head they just didn't know where the head would go. At one point they thought it fed through its toothpick like feet. Anyway, they flipped it over and it made a bit more sense but some people think that it is just a part fossil of a larger animal. It is very easy to make a mistake reconstructing a blurred 500 million year old fossil of a worm like creature.
I don't think they thought it really had no head they just didn't know where the head would go. At one point they thought it fed through its toothpick like feet. Anyway, they flipped it over and it made a bit more sense but some people think that it is just a part fossil of a larger animal. It is very easy to make a mistake reconstructing a blurred 500 million year old fossil of a worm like creature.
A friend of mine studied geology and keeps baffling me today if I'm honest Dawkins.
Basically I have a lot of questions when it comes to science anyway but they're usually a bit more phillosophical in nature. (Today I've been flummoxed completely and because I'm not sure that I'm spelling all the names correctly I didn't think a search engine would be very useful.) I looked up the burgess shale you mentioned earlier but didn't really have time to have a very good look at it.
I've only very recently started using the Science category as I was a bit scared my questions would be laughed at but everyone has been really very helpful and informative.... which unfortunately for you all has encouraged me so I guess I'll be hanging around here a bit in the future.
Basically I have a lot of questions when it comes to science anyway but they're usually a bit more phillosophical in nature. (Today I've been flummoxed completely and because I'm not sure that I'm spelling all the names correctly I didn't think a search engine would be very useful.) I looked up the burgess shale you mentioned earlier but didn't really have time to have a very good look at it.
I've only very recently started using the Science category as I was a bit scared my questions would be laughed at but everyone has been really very helpful and informative.... which unfortunately for you all has encouraged me so I guess I'll be hanging around here a bit in the future.
if i remember my degree course correctly china me old doll (lovely too see you here by the way), the burgess shales turned up many species which had never been seen before.
the venerable Stephen J Gould had a good butchers at that them and based a lot of his work on the punctuated equilibrium theory of evolution upon these new species.
how many of the fossil remains where actually correctly reassembled and categorized however, is open to debate.
and here's a hallucigenia for ya petal!!!......
http://www.karencarr.com/Images/Gallery/2004_g allery_hallucigenia.jpg
the venerable Stephen J Gould had a good butchers at that them and based a lot of his work on the punctuated equilibrium theory of evolution upon these new species.
how many of the fossil remains where actually correctly reassembled and categorized however, is open to debate.
and here's a hallucigenia for ya petal!!!......
http://www.karencarr.com/Images/Gallery/2004_g allery_hallucigenia.jpg
Furthermore, if you want to see an animation that's had us all in stitches in the lab this morning, have a look here:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/artic le/_0_0/cambrian_13
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/artic le/_0_0/cambrian_13
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