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I just wanted to share an amazing peace of information with you all.
For many years I’ve been studying the life on this planet, but today I was in shock, I have always believed that mammals and reptiles share no evolutionary back ground, that they are separate forms of evolutionary life.
Until I stumbled upon the Australian Platypus, it shares characteristics from both mammals and reptiles. It’s very much like a mammal because it is warm blooded, 32c to be precise. It has hair witch only mammals do, and it feeds its young with milk. Now the odd thing is when it gives birth it lays an egg just the one. Also its sperm is thread like, the same as reptiles.
This to me in my mind tells me that when reptiles failed, 60- 65 million years ago and were 99% wiped out, evolution kicked in. The formula was not right.
In 1985 a prehistoric platypus fossil was found in lime stone carbon dated to be 15 million years old, the only thing that has changed in all that time is the loss of its teeth. The scull shape is almost identical, and body size is 20% less but none the less it’s the same. I imagen the loss of its teeth is because its food source changed and no longer needs them. As most reptiles back then ate each other.
So in one way or another we are all related to the Trex.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2269/platypusskeleton.jpg
Truly amazing.
I just wanted to share an amazing peace of information with you all.
For many years I’ve been studying the life on this planet, but today I was in shock, I have always believed that mammals and reptiles share no evolutionary back ground, that they are separate forms of evolutionary life.
Until I stumbled upon the Australian Platypus, it shares characteristics from both mammals and reptiles. It’s very much like a mammal because it is warm blooded, 32c to be precise. It has hair witch only mammals do, and it feeds its young with milk. Now the odd thing is when it gives birth it lays an egg just the one. Also its sperm is thread like, the same as reptiles.
This to me in my mind tells me that when reptiles failed, 60- 65 million years ago and were 99% wiped out, evolution kicked in. The formula was not right.
In 1985 a prehistoric platypus fossil was found in lime stone carbon dated to be 15 million years old, the only thing that has changed in all that time is the loss of its teeth. The scull shape is almost identical, and body size is 20% less but none the less it’s the same. I imagen the loss of its teeth is because its food source changed and no longer needs them. As most reptiles back then ate each other.
So in one way or another we are all related to the Trex.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2269/platypusskeleton.jpg
Truly amazing.
