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Extensive research established it as a 'missing link fossil', dubbed puijila darwini, the walking ancestor to seals, sea lions and walruses.
VoIP & Gadgets Blog 2009
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If you can say humuhumunukunukuapuaa, you can pronounce puijila.
Planet Atheism 2009
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If you can say humuhumunukunukuapuaa, you can pronounce puijila.
chained_bear commented on the word puijila
"The discovery team — headed by Canadian Museum of Nature paleontologist Natalia Rybczynski and including the renowned, 77-year-old American scientist Mary Dawson — has labelled the find Puijila darwini: an Inuktitut word meaning 'young sea mammal' followed by a Latinate tribute to Darwin."
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"Puijila is now the oldest evidence of a pinniped known to science, and the team eventually recovered about a surprising two-thirds of the complete skeleton — including a penis bone that determined the specimen's gender."
—Randy Boswell, "Arctic fossil provides 'missing link' to modern seal," Canwest News Service, seen here.
(Thanks Prolagus!)
April 23, 2009