Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Snapshot from New York on last tuesday, about a week ago..

LEGS AND BONES:
A snapshot from the American Museum of Natural History:
We all are related to dinosaurs,
we share a heritage from the very first mollusc in the sea.

STARS AND STRIPES:
New York from the airplane lifting off Newark at nightfall.
High above stars were looking down on earth.

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3 comments:

  1. EHOctober 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM

    So mollusc are evolved alongside with vertebraes, I thought they were older in the Tree of Life.
    So do we all descent from oysters, yes or no? My knowledge of the first species is somewhat dusty..

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  2. EHOctober 9, 2008 at 4:12 AM

    What did you think of the picture then, LS?

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  3. LSOctober 9, 2008 at 1:53 PM

    Molluscs are definitely older than vertebrates as a group, but I don't know how old oysters are. I guess I should find out and post something on oyster evolution here on the blog.

    We are not descendants of oysters :) Oysters and vertebrates had a common ancestor far, far back in time. We are all Metazoa = animals, a special lineage on the tree of life.

    I love the photo - her drawing skeletons with her own skeleton being part of the photo.

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