Posts Tagged museum drawers
Dino Detritus: Small Steps are Worth Doing
Posted by mistergroonk in Dinosaurs, Intertube Madness on April 3, 2010
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The Flatfish Missing Link was Found, Good on Them
Posted by mistergroonk in Admin, Science on July 10, 2008
I’m not so much tracking that they have a “missing link” but of where this “lost” information was found. Sitting happily and unknown in a museum’s drawers. A certain dinosaur comes to mind.
“They don’t know what they’ve got there.”
Indeed they don’t, Indy.
Some odd-looking fish fossils discovered in the bowels of several European museums may help solve a lingering question about evolutionary theory, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
The 50 million-year-old fossils — which have one eye near the top of their heads — help explain how flatfish such as flounder, sole and halibut developed the strange but useful trait of having both eyes on one side.



