Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered 198
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have discovered a benign algae eating protozoan in a lake near Oslo, Norway whose gene sequence does not match any known organism living on earth today, and this beasty combines genetic characteristics across plant, animal, and fungal kingdoms. It is believed to be the closest living organism to the original organisms that spawned all animal life on earth."
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So what's the /. UID of this thing?
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Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing (Score:3, Funny)
Nice summary though.
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So what's the /. UID of this thing?
Judging by the picture in the article [msn.com], it is none other than Cowboy Neil himself.
Re: Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Di (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, we already know what fruit the Tree of Life gave. It's the banana—haven't you seen the totally informative and 100% factual [youtube.com] explanation of how perfect it is?
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I eagerly await to see how many moderators and respondents do not realise that this post is sarcastic.
Re:Very interesting (Score:5, Funny)
I think from tfs, it is safe to say it is not a new form of life...
Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing (Score:4, Funny)
Cthulhu's gunna be pretty mad when he wakes up to find people have tramped through his shrubbery.
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Modern classification is a bit of a mess, because Nature doesn't fit into the neat hierarchical classification system that we grew up with.
Yeah, multiple inheritance is a mess. They should have gone with single inheritance and interfaces instead...
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[music]...breakin' up is hard to do... [/music]
Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing (Score:5, Funny)
Cthulhu's gunna be pretty mad when he wakes up to find people have tramped through his shrubbery.
You mean then that dead Cthulhu's first words upon waking from a pleasant dream in his house at R'lyeh will be, "Hey! You damned kids get off my lawn!!"
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The protozoan was heard shouting "Hey you young species, get off my pond!"
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