Living fossil eel
A rare eel has been rediscovered, and
is now being studied to find a genetic link. Studies have found that
this eel has features such as its jaw structure and relatively small
number of vertebrae. Which these have been found only in fossils of
the earliest eels. This is a breakthrough for evolutionary
biologists, because they thought the eels had broken off at
100million years and had lost these features. Even current hagfish
had confused biologists for a while with their jawless mouth, but
biologists concluded that it broke off from modern fish and lost the
jaw apparatus. Studies like this interest me because they provide
common links between animals and their features. Not only do they
help us relate animals to one another but they help me piece together
our world and where animals come from. It also helps me form a
better understanding of God's world. While I don't agree with the
timeline of most evolutionary biologists, I can agree that animals
share many characteristics in growth with one another. This should
help me in the classroom to make connections with students, and
relate information to them through comparison.
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