May 19, 2009
45 million years in the making: Ida
Continuing the expansion of Clusterflock as a safe space for the exploration of your feelings about evolution…Ida!
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Here is a reconstruction of how Ida looked when alive.
I would like to suggest that any comment in this thread be appended with: that’s just how I feel about it.
That’s just how I feel about it.
She looks like she is stuck to a wheel of aged cheese.
That’s just how I feel about it.
“This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years,” said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University’s Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. “It tells a part of our evolution that’s been hidden so far. It’s been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there’s nothing almost to study.”
I asked Jørn, and he told me, “That’s just how I feel about it”.
looked cuter when alive, that’s just how I feel about it.
I think God would never let us descend from animals, especially ones with tails. Also, skorts are adorable.
That’s just how I feel about it.
Despite comparisons to the Mona Lisa, and the fact that “Mayor” Bloomberg will be celebrating Ida tonight, I think she is no lolcat. That’s just how I feel about it.
…well, we may not have descended down from, but we certainly evolved up from animals.
That’s just how Ida lols about it.
We’ve evolved from earlier primates, but we haven’t evolved out of the condition of animalhood. Humans are animals.
And that’s how I meow about it.
I evolved from a two-toed sloth. That’s a fact, Jack.
Pretty pretty primate, I wish I had a tail.
You could stick something fluffy onto your coccyx, Sheila. I am not going to make a Sheilasdick joke here. I will leave that up to Cindy.
If I had a tail I couldn’t sleep comfortably on my back.
Lucy, there are plans. Believe me. There are plans.
What joke? Is there a better racehorse name in all the world than Sheilasdick?
I cannot sleep comfortably on my back no matter what! It feels unnatural! Unsafe!
And if I sleep on my belly, my dick gets in the way.
I think Sheila has all the necessary skills to be a primate. But before you sign up, Sheila, it is important for you to know that humans will evolve from you.
You might try to sleep like Sleeping Hermaphroditus, who clearly has it all figured out.
That is just how I sleep.
The only way I can sleep on my back is if I place my right leg across my left leg at a 90-degree angle, making a 4. Otherwise, I’m like Sheila and Hermaphroditus and am all sideways hither and yon.
I can sleep on my belly if I do a ‘modified Superman’ — crook up my left leg and maintain my right leg straight and stretch my left arm before me, either straight or slightly bent. Lately I’ve had to shift my right arm under my right leg for sport.
I may need to photograph this.
Please do. In the name of science.
We will use the pictures for a grant application. We will combine them with Phil’s pubic hair fleur de lys ornamentation. We are building a dossier.
She’s not fossilized, she’s just sleeping.
That’s just how I feel about it.
That’s just how you feel about it is how you feel about it, MGS. And we like it like that.