A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong

Re:A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong by ncmncm on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:44AM (#21324970)

I take moths' hearing as evidence for Cretaceous echolocators. Other insects? Pterosaurs? Birds? Flying mammals that were not bats? Proto-crypto-bats? Could be any of them, or several. Most terrestrial species disappeared, so most of the interesting ones did.

It is amazing to be able to deduce the past existence of creatures that left no physical trace.

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Re:A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong by trentlott on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:50PM (#21326616)

> It is amazing to be able to deduce the past existence of creatures that left no physical trace.

Well, unless they didn't have a past existence

Try not to pat yourself on the back too hard

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Re:A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong by ncmncm on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:26PM (#21330198)

I didn't say it was amazing to do it. It is amazing that it is possible to do it. You could too, if you were ... someone else. Too bad.

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