Kangaroos 'r us?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20081118/SCIENCE-US-AUSTRALIA-KANGAROOS/

This is a fun, quirky interesting story - and it explains some of the people I know
Apparently, we used to be kangaroos.. Or kangaroo like!

"There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order," center Director Jenny Graves told reporters in Melbourne.

"Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago," Graves said.

 

Monkeys I can accept, but I'm not descended from any damn kangaroo.

 

This is probably why I like my beer a bit hoppy.

 

That's going to confuse some pre-people:

 

this was interesting:

>>>Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another only 70 million years ago.<<<

 

I just diverged from a wombat last week.

 

The kangaroo thing does sort of explain the kind of bitch-slap fighting, when the people involved hold their elbows really close to their sides and just wave their hands around.

 

how'd that go? any regrets?

 

My high school's mascot is Kangaroos.

 

killeen?

 

Thankfully I'm not a Texan, I just play one at my local newspaper.

Lake Washington (Wash.) Purple Kangaroos.