Wednesday, March 26, 2008

This is fast evolution?

Scientists have pinned down the fastest-known evolving animal — a "living dinosaur" called a tuatara. Researchers found that although tuatara have remained largely unchanged physically over very long periods of evolution, they are evolving — at a DNA level — faster than any other animal yet examined. Photo Credit: Reb/Dreamstime Source: MSNBC

1 comment:

Jan said...

Actually he's kind of cute in a, you know, repugnant, Jurassic Park sort of way.