Spiny sharklike fish probably looked sinister as scales on mouth turned into prickly smile
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from:msnbc.comThe first teeth grew on the outside of body
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Neat.
Yes!
Now, wait for it, wait for it!
No fair baiting them now, joe
Jock, I wasn't, .... well not really .... I mean you have an open environmental niche and LO and Behold some lifeform will crawl in (-from under a rock perhaps)!
Just wait ....... .
But on a more serious note, it is an answer to the "de novo" formation of organs (such as Teeth and Eyes) -FROM earlier, different application tissues.
I can't believe I just wasted my time reading this article!!!
Not to worry, the Higgs boson will still be there when you get back to the collider
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Not enough pictures for you?
And yet you wasted even more time posting a useless statement. Congrats!
Can we stop being stupid, PLEASE! If you choose to continue, please do so in private.
Thank God....We can finally sleep now.....This has been an issue of debate amongst the common man for centuries, and finally..resolution. Just in time too....with the holiday's upon us, we won't have to sit around the dinner table or fireplace and debate the issue for hours as in years past...These fine scientists can now move on to the important work of determining the evolution of the toenail.....the sooner the better boy's.....
What is wrong with you?
Paul
Why is it that you anti-science folks click on science articles?
Don't you worry, Paul. If you take a little time and do some research I'm sure you can find the answer to your 'toenail' question. Good hunting!
don97524..."anti-science folks"? First of all...I am far from that.....secondly...I read everything I can about every subject I can.....if you are not, i highly recommend stepping out of the narrow approach and expand your input, even things you don't "think" you would be interested in. You might just learn something new....like that "Teeth" may have evolved from the outside of the face before the formation of the oral cavity....wow...that tidbit will most certainly come handy some day......
Paul
You take the time to post a sarcastic comment about some new findings in science, and then you are annoyed when you are criticized for being "anti-science."Interesting. By the way, the plural of "boy" is not "boy"s". (Just trying to help with your quest for knowledge.)
I would also be interested in how you came to the conclusion that I have a "narrow" approach when the only thing I said to you was that you appear to be "anti-science". I need your answer for my research on irrational thinking.
Don....Not "annoyed"....amused. The fact you that label "Anti-Science Folks" as anyone that does not share in your overwhelming excitement over this discovery is a bit narrow. The fact that you asked "why" an "anti-science folk" would bother to read to the article is an indication that you only read subject matter you are interested in and avoid everything else. You and your comrades have done a fine job of collectively defending the achievement of whole "teeth" debate, and I am still of the opinion that it has little value in the big picture. If you all are offended by freedom of speech, that is a whole different debate.
To anyone familiar with "The Flintstones" cartoon this "news" story is old hat! I recall seeing an episode where Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble used a fish like the one mentioned in the story above to cut firewood on a camping trip; and that was in the sixties!
The Flintstones was just 'best guess'
Only sixteen comments since 3:18 p.m. EST today? Now, that's just sad. Oh, wait, make that seventeen.
...with the holiday's upon us, we won't have to sit around the dinner table or fireplace and debate the issue for hours as in years past.."
Would someone PLEASE help Paul FIND his Falsies (and PolyGrip Cream)? He can't start on the Thanksgiving Feast without them!
Well Joe....with all of the real challenges facing mankind at the moment, its nice to know that that these scientists have elected to dedicate all of their time, resources (gov't grants) and talent to prehistoric evolution of teeth. The World is a better place today because we finally figured out the "teeth" issue, lives saved and peace on earth.....now can move to things that matter?
Finally; something we can sink our teeth into! I went to school with a kid who had teeth like that, and yes, no one ever tried to bully Him!
Paul, there are lots of us. I think some people can continue to work on things that fascinate us without taking away from our collective ability to answer questions that you think are more important. We can do so much more than just "save lives." We can also enrich those lives. We have the financial and intellectual resources to do both, so this research is not "taking away" from anything. If you are not interested in it, don't read it, and don't keep coming back to tell us about how unimportant you think it is.
Second that!
Wait, is Paul to the left or to the right? Oh, wait a minute he's back to the left again. Oh man, my mistake, he's back to the right now. Wow! Hold on, now he's back to the right! Wasn't he just at the right? Ok, am I watching a tennis match or just someone jumping fences?? Ok, I'm really confused now. Paul, can you help me with this? Thanks and nevermind, I'm good now. Hold on, now I'm confused again! Dang these two left hands of mine!!
GarrettB..
Itwillprobablytakeyoumoretimetoreadthisresponsethanittookmetoreadthe entirearticleIremainamusedbyyouandyourcomradesincessantneedtodefend yourfellowsciencebuffsYoumightconsiderspendinglesstimereadingmy commentsandmoretimestudyingthematinghabitsofthedungbeetle,which seemsmoreinyourfieldthansparingwithanonymousreadersandposters.
Wow, Paul, it took me all of 20 seconds to read your post! I'm positive it took you MUCH longer to compose it. I bet you had to take a shower to cool your head off after all that!? It's ok, I understand it must have been a stretch for you. BUT, I'm sure if you were to ask a dung beetle about it it could enlighten you a bit. Good luck on your endeavor!
I reamin amused by the responses I have received over the comments posted about this irrelevant finding. The fact that the "Science Folks" have banded together, repleat with loaded "pen-protectors" and "calculator holsters" to collectively combat the alleged "Anti-Science Folk" for simply having an opinion concerning the importance or relevance of the assumption that teeth "may" have evolved from the face to the oral cavity. I applaud your effort to defend your brothers in "random and useless" discovery, while questioning your apparent disatisfaction with others "freedom to express an opinion". You have affirmed my suspicion that self-claimed "Science Intellectuals" are as close minded as any other group of narrow minded people on the planet.
Well said Paul, I agree with your views of this important "news" item: professing to be wise they became fools!
Example: "Regardless of their pigmentation under normal illumination, felines of all species have been observed to be cinereous when the atmosphere is enveloped in tenebrosity". (Translation: All cats look gray at night.)
And who can forget:
The values clarification of the acceptibility margin explains the creative indeterminancy and operative polarity along with the configurational alignment and reflective parallelisms of the whole-being identity!
Poppycock....boulderdash......hogwash....horsefeathers and so on and so forth!
Just more useless theory on issues of no importance, who pays for this waste of time.........never mind you don't want to know!
Just because you don't know/understand the main focus and/or the underlying point of the research doesn't mean it's a "waste of time" and "of no importance". There may very well be a great deal of importance that neither one of you have thought about. That importance may not be known next week, or even six months from now, but it could perhaps save your life or someone's life who's close to you.
I'm sure when you were younger math seemed of "no importance" as well. Now that you've put a few years behind you you've, hopefully, come to realize without math our society would not be ANYTHING like it is. This study, and several others, may not be that obvious, but who's to say they won't be in ten years?? You never know...
GB: I will agree with you in respect to my lack of understanding this folly, by the wildest stretch of imagination I can't imagine what good will come from this study. If at the end of the day the theory is proves to be true......so what? It's like wondering why chickens don't have lips, or why frogs aren't covered in hair. While your opinion of whether this research will benefit future generations has merit (how much I refuse to speculate) I would think studying plants that can provide food and shelter for the untold billions that occupy our ever shrinking planet would have more impact. In respect to the importance of the research and whether it is a waste of time I guess it boils down to ones sense of value. Concerning math and this study.....the research doesn't add up!
Well...I am off to read the latest discovery posted on the Vine this morning. Apparently the world renowned astro physicist Dr. Pat McGroin has "discovered" that the star we refer to as the "SUN" (pronounced. "SON") is actually "ON" 24 hours per day, and not "OFF" at night, as previously reported and subscribed by the scientific community at large. Apparently, according to McGroin, the planet Earth actually "rotates" on its own axis, causing the surface of the planet to be either in parody with the SUN or "hidden" from the SUN "Light" temporarily. According to McGroin, this condition has been present for a very long time. As a side note, he additionally claims that there is strong evidence that the surface of the "SUN" is very very very "HOT" and would probably cause a severe burn if you try to touch it. WOW...heady stuff.
This article is top-tier in astounding stupidity. Sadly, there are many ignorant lemmings that will accept this obvious hogwash as fact.
You tellm' Barn
I say this calls for action and now. Nip it in the bud. First sign of "scientists" going wrong, you've got to nip it in the bud. (Or the gum as it were!)