Title: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Kylyssa on February 22, 2009, 04:37:08 PM
Post by: Kylyssa on February 22, 2009, 04:37:08 PM
I'm looking for good lists of transitional fossils to whip out whenever I get the "but there ain't transitional fossils" argument. Do you have any favorite lists? I've found a few but I'm looking for the mother of all lists or perhaps to create a link list of transitional fossil pages.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Msblue on February 22, 2009, 09:49:38 PM
Post by: Msblue on February 22, 2009, 09:49:38 PM
I haven't found much. This blog post http://www.societyofheathens.com/2009/02/list-10-amazing-transitional-fossils.html
and of course Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
and of course Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Will on February 22, 2009, 10:24:59 PM
Post by: Will on February 22, 2009, 10:24:59 PM
There's a video on Youtube that lists almost every known transitional fossil at high speed. iirc, the video is like 8 minutes long and shows several fossils a second. I'll see if I can find it.
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Twiddler on March 02, 2009, 07:09:58 PM
Post by: Twiddler on March 02, 2009, 07:09:58 PM
[youtube:oa0rfcx9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIijwkaqKzY[/youtube:oa0rfcx9]
Is this what you were looking for?
Is this what you were looking for?
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Will on March 02, 2009, 07:11:09 PM
Post by: Will on March 02, 2009, 07:11:09 PM
Quote from: "Twiddler"[youtube:1est000e]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIijwkaqKzY[/youtube:1est000e]Yes! Thanks very much!
Is this what you were looking for?
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: Kylyssa on March 05, 2009, 12:32:53 AM
Post by: Kylyssa on March 05, 2009, 12:32:53 AM
Oh, awesome, Twiddler! Many thanks!
Title: Re: What's the best list of transitional fossils you've found?
Post by: maestroanth on March 06, 2009, 06:42:21 AM
Post by: maestroanth on March 06, 2009, 06:42:21 AM
Quote from: "Kylyssa"I'm looking for good lists of transitional fossils to whip out whenever I get the "but there ain't transitional fossils" argument. Do you have any favorite lists? I've found a few but I'm looking for the mother of all lists or perhaps to create a link list of transitional fossil pages.
Thank you!
Sorry I'm drinking some I'm coming up with "other thoughts".
I know my knowledge is "old age" but dinosaurs were my passion from my young years between 8 - (well still)
As a kid I just cared about dinosaurs, know I care about everything from that prehistoric age.
I'm lame, I've even studyed the seperation of the (I think) pangea as the land masses broke apart; and obseved diagrams between the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretacious (and more when I was younger); and was obsessed with these creatures!
Imagine what they could've evolved into if the comet (I have skepticalism how this unfolds w/e) hit, which killed those reptiles which allowed mammals to evolve (I need more proof for this; I find holes in this logic).
There is significant proof (and I believe as well) that the comet really killed the reptiles, but it was really the cold year is what killed the reptiles (not the directly the comet), and since mammals are warm blooded; yes that makes sense.
What is interesting, that in the late cretacious creatures such as Velociraptor (don't be lied by Jurassic Park, they were only 4 feet tall) had a brain cranium bigger than ours! But yet their bodies weighed 1000 pounds (due to length).