Comments on: Oldest Animals Discovered in Namibia https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490982 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:36:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490982 “In your face gayism” sounds fun. Where do I sign up?
More importantly, can I send it to Rob along with a singing telegram?

]]> By: NJ https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490981 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:52:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490981 Bingo!

]]> By: NJ https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490980 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:04:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490980 “Proponent of Evolution” aka Rob Hood @ 2:

760 million years. That is hilarious.

Not as funny as your idea that you can change your ‘nym and people won’t recognize your undertreated mental illness. “Secular depressives”? Really? Just go back to whining about “flouride” and HAARP, Rob.

]]> By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490979 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:57:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/10/oldest-animals-discovered-in-n/#comment-490979 Thank you for posting this, I just found out the other day and it has been out there “forever”. The article and the editorial. Haven’t read it yet, but a scan says they claim finding literary thousands of those sponges mineralized “skeletons”.

The interesting astrobiological bit so far is that they hypothesize these immobile predators scavenged and so buried floating organics of oceans and ushered in increased oxygen to _cause_ the snowball Earth some people have suspected caused complex multicellulars. Way to reverse the story!

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