Comments on: Prehistoric-Aged Reptile Found Breeding

Dragon-Like Tuatara Eggs Discovered By Accident At Wildlife Reserve In New Zealand

[superdem]

Evolutionary changes don''t happen just because time has passed, they happen in response to environmental demands as survival adaptations. If the tuatara is perfectly adapted to its environment, it will never need to change, and won''t. But look at the iguanas that landed on the Galapagos Islands. They originally came from South America, where vegetation is abundant on land. South American iguanas are terrestrial vegetarians, but in the Galapagos, where the islands are volcanic and support very little vegetation, the iguanas have adapted to swim into the sea to graze on seaweeds growing on the rocks. It was that or die. The marine iguanas are different morphologically from their more terrestial cousins. That''s evolution.

[oscarez]

Fossils are planted in the ground by Satan in hopes one day man will dig them up and lose faith in God.

Posted by gop_will_win at 09:06 AM : Oct 31, 2008

There is no God and there is no Satan so how can this be.

[antoniof123]

If evolution is a true process as some like to imagine, then why hasn''''t this animal evolved in 223 million years? When supposedly everything else has. What, did it just get stuck? Too much welfare for natural selection to take place?
Posted by govwatch at 09:44 AM : Oct 31, 2008

Good right wing sound bite but that is all it is.

DID YOU READ THE STORY IT WAS ONLY 200 YEARS THAT THIS ANIMAL HAS NOT BEEN SEEN.

[govwatch-2009]

If evolution is a true process as some like to imagine, then why hasn''t this animal evolved in 223 million years? When supposedly everything else has. What, did it just get stuck? Too much welfare for natural selection to take place?

[connapa]

Read carefully. People hadn''t seen them in WELLINGTON for about 200 years- not millions. They were driven to extinction in and around wellington due to the introduction of other animals courtesy of us humans.

[gop_will_win]

Posted by VeritusCredo
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Fossils are planted in the ground by Satan in hopes one day man will dig them up and lose faith in God.

[verituscredo]

Uh, people didn''t see this species 200 million years ago because people didn''t exist then as such. Paleontologists have however apparently seen ancestors of this species in fossil records which date back to that time though, which is how they are able to make this kind of statement.

[truthislife1]

Sure am glad to know people saw these 200 million years ago.