Re: Oldest humerus found

["fam jansma" <fam.jansma@tiscali.nl>]

Is this the humerus of Hynerpeton...an early tetrapod from the same general
region?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Hecht" <jeff@jeffhecht.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Oldest humerus found


> Some nice work by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler on an early humerus 
> of an amphibian that could push its body up, but couldn't walk. I 
> have a report up at
> 
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994843
> 
> and the paper is in Science.
> 
> It looks like the evolutionary "tree" for ancestral amphibians was as 
> shrubby as the transition from bird to dinosaur, with lots of 
> evolutionary experiments going on simultaneously.
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