{"id":591,"date":"2008-05-22T06:34:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=591"},"modified":"2008-08-06T21:57:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:57:38","slug":"paging-rep-hays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Paging Rep. Hays …"},"content":{"rendered":"

A certain Florida Representative liked to claim over and over again this past legislative session that there are no transitional fossils. Of course, I think Rep. Hays has a cartoon version of evolution in his head, but regardless, here’s the newest transitional fossil discovered <\/a>should Rep. Hays care to do some educational reading.
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The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate evolution. The discovery was made by a research team led by scientists at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n

The examination and detailed description of the fossil, Gerobatrachus hottoni (meaning Hotton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elder frog), proves the previously disputed fact that some modern amphibians, frogs and salamanders evolved from one ancient amphibian group called temnospondyls.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The dispute arose because of a lack of transitional forms. This fossil seals the gap,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Jason Anderson, assistant professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and lead scientist in the study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A certain Florida Representative liked to claim over and over again this past legislative session that there are no transitional fossils. Of course, I think Rep. Hays has a cartoon version of evolution in his head, but regardless, here’s the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-9x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":563,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=563","url_meta":{"origin":591,"position":0},"title":"Reaction sent to media","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The following reaction was sent to the media earlier today following the anti-evolution bill debate in the Florida House. 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