Timothy McDougald
Posts: 1036
Joined: Dec. 2006
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Uncommon Descent lies again. They say:
| Quote | | It took them a while to find the bones, because they tended not to be kept, as they were believed to be vestigial. |
What does the Science Daily article they link to say?
| Quote | | "Cetacean skeletons are stored as boxes of bones on warehouse shelves, with each box containing an individual specimen. You have to comb through each box looking for the specific bone you need. The pelvic bones are comparatively small and aren't always collected with the rest of the skeleton, but after the first couple hundred boxes we got very good at finding them when they were present," said Dines, who graduated last spring from USC Dornsife's Integrative and Evolutionary Biology program while maintaining his role at NHM. |
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Church burning ebola boy
FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me.
PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.
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