Metazoica back-up

From Discovery News. All Modern Life on Earth Derived from Common Ancestor A single, primordial event likely yielded the array of organisms living today. Fri May 14, 2010 05:15 PM ET Content provided by Tina Hesman Saey, Science News One isn't such a lonely number. All life on Earth shares a single common ancestor, a new statistical analysis confirms. The idea that life-forms share a common ancestor is "a central pillar of evolutionary theory," says Douglas Theobald, a biochemist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. "But recently there has been some mumbling, especially from microbiologists, that it may not be so cut-and-dried." Because microorganisms of different species often swap genes, some scientists have proposed that multiple primordial life forms could have tossed their genetic material into life's mix, creating a web, rather than a tree of life. To determine which hypothesis is more likely correct, Theobald put various evolutionary a...

I got another announcement from the SE forum, and this note is to let the admin know that I don't want to go back. Apparently the mod is planning to delete some members who have been inactive. I got their first notice, and I haven't said anything because I don't want them to take it as I care. Well today I got their second notice, and they are giving a final warning. I say just delete me and get it over with! I don't want to go back. I have a few friends there and they know they can always find me here. But I have no business in that forum. A forum that embraces jackasses like JohnFaa, AKA Carlos Miguel Albuquerque, I don't belong in. But let me leave him with this final note, he is NOT a scientist, nor will he ever be. He's too closed-minded. And he does not run the show on Metazoica! The "fat whore" does! :) I don't need that forum, I've been working on Metazoica for a long time by myself. Though don't think that I don't appreciate ...

The monotypic family Chaitharctidae, consists of a single species, Chaitharctos . This is the only species in this family around at the beginning of the Metazoic. These animals mostly inhabit the Arctic region. They are closely related to weasels, and evolved from the stoat. But this species is overrun by a host of larger, more powerful predators like Daspletarctos . During it's short life though, this animal ruled the Arctic. They are about the size of a wolverine, with long claws like a bear and a head that seems too big for it's body. Much like today's tasmanian devil. The legs are short, and the body is proportionately long. The tail is short and bulbous. The ears are small and triangular in shape. The eyes are somewhat large and round. They are loners, and rely mostly on their acute sense of smell to find food. Like modern stoats, these animals change colors with the seasons. During the winter they are a nice wintery white. But in the summer, they are a deep, rusty bro...