Whale Ancestor found...
Hi All
Not really a space science topic, but it does cast light on a palaeontological puzzle - and that's astrobiology related I guess. Cetaceans might be the nearest lingistic communicators this side of Alpha Centauri...
Whale 'missing link' discovered
Deer-like fossil is a missing link in whale evolution
...aquatic life is also, in many ways, the nearest to an off-world environment most of us can experience, this side of $20 million.
Anything that gives it to the Creationists in the 'nads is a good thing.