Revealed: Earth's First Animal, And It's Not A Sponge ...

A new study mapping the evolutionary history of animals has shaken up the tree of life a little. It indicates that Earth's first animal was probably significantly more complex than previously believed.

[Cash]

Looks like the ol' Tree of Life got a kick in the shins there.

[Once-ler]

Cash wrote:

Looks like the ol' Tree of Life got a kick in the shins there.

Maybe it got hit by lightning.

[Burgy]

Cash wrote:

Looks like the ol' Tree of Life got a kick in the shins there.

It's not what we don't know that is the problem. It's what we think we know and are utterly wrong.

I predict this will be fodder for the YECs and IDs among us.

[kelmark]

The first animal was of corse a lion. It says so in the bible. Man came after god was ready to make a perfect likness of himself. Two legged snake????...

[Stanislaw]

and what makes them think jellyfish predated microbes?

[Adrian in Tacoma]

Sounds like sponge snot to me, but gives them a reason to rewrite textbooks and make folks pay more scoot...

[Reading is Fundamental]

kelmark wrote:

Man came after god was ready to make a perfect likness of himself.

I am a perfect likeness of god.

Buddha

[MarkmyWord]

Burgy wrote:

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It's not what we don't know that is the problem. It's what we think we know and are utterly wrong.
I predict this will be fodder for the YECs and IDs among us.

Dang skippy. Way to go for creationism. Yea, God did it. Get over it! Wohoo!

[MarkmyWord]

kelmark wrote:

The first animal was of corse a lion. It says so in the bible. Man came after god was ready to make a perfect likness of himself. Two legged snake????...

The Holy Bible does not record which animal came first. Hu(man) came first. Creationism, yea, wohoo!

[MarkmyWord]

Reading is Fundamental wrote:

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I am a perfect likeness of god.
Buddha

Buddha is fat and dead.

[Vox]

The good stuff just keeps rollin' in...
Always glad to get new components...what will they come up with next?

[Andrew McFing]

Jesus is skinny and just as dead

[THINKING]

SOCRATES"HMM WE DONT KNOW $&*!. why bother

[Reading is Fundamental]

MarkmyWord wrote:

<quoted text>Buddha is fat and dead.

The fat, happy Buddha is a Chinese interpretation. The original Buddha had fasted for seven years prior to his enlightenment, early depictions of him are of a lean, mean meditatin' machine. As for death, well it's just a doorway to the next stage isn't it?

Meanwhile, back to jellies. Far more interesting than Porifera or deceased deities anyday.

[Scott from Texas]

Andrew McFing wrote:

Jesus is skinny and just as dead

Whut you ain't got one o' them there Scripture book thingies? I done had it readed to me oncest and sumbbody tolded me that Jesus wus res'rekted 'bout three days aftuh he wasa hungded on that thar cross. He ain't daid! Hesa justa restin' wit his Pappy and that Goasty purson.

[Scott from Texas]

Reading is Fundamental wrote:

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The fat, happy Buddha is a Chinese interpretation. The original Buddha had fasted for seven years prior to his enlightenment, early depictions of him are of a lean, mean meditatin' machine. As for death, well it's just a doorway to the next stage isn't it?
Meanwhile, back to jellies. Far more interesting than Porifera or deceased deities anyday.

How very true. Phylum Cnidaria has some fantastically diverse species. The comb jellies and their relatives corals and jellyfish have such interesting characteristics. Just the ways they have evolved their reproduction cycles alone is incredible. Being able to move from a sessile polyp to a mobile medusa without any other transformation is amazing. Plus, they can go through a larval stage and disperse through the use of ocean current! I just wish my students could see the possibilities that Marine Biology and Aquatic Science has to the future and the past.

[Reading is Fundamental]

Scott from Texas wrote:

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How very true. Phylum Cnidaria has some fantastically diverse species. The comb jellies and their relatives corals and jellyfish have such interesting characteristics. Just the ways they have evolved their reproduction cycles alone is incredible. Being able to move from a sessile polyp to a mobile medusa without any other transformation is amazing. Plus, they can go through a larval stage and disperse through the use of ocean current! I just wish my students could see the possibilities that Marine Biology and Aquatic Science has to the future and the past.

I was really lucky and happened to be in Monterey, CA when I took high school biology. The teacher used to get samples straight from Monterey Bay for us to dissect/examine. The canning industry of the bay area was seriously affected by damage to the ecosystem, and it is only now recovering. Took a while for people to realize that everything there is connected: Kelp, Otters, Oysters and the Haddock they were fishing. Wierd aside, but it was in that course where I was first amazed at how much randomness the jelly must go through to live and grow. Not to mention the uncelebrated hydra stage of development.

[Cousin Jethro]

Actually it looks kind of like a giant scum bag or a wedding veil for Darth Vader's princess -- or maybe it's the positive of the face in Shroud of Turin -- Yahweh, help me with this...Love, Love, Love

[race]

Wonderful.
More supersticious, primitive, barbarous savages who believe the earth is only 7,000 years old, evolution does not exist, and humans are the center of the cosmos.
Absolutely wonderful.
I would say "get an education", but one cannot educate an idiot, since they are incapable of learning in the first place.
Hoping that God comes quick to wipe you all away,
Race

[Porkjar]

Does this mean that my great great grandmother came out of a Smucker's jar?