Robot Investigates the 1st Walk on Land

[Allegra]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Robo-salamander's evolution clues

'A robot is being used by a Franco-Swiss team to investigate how the first land animals on Earth might have walked. '

Very interesting!

 

[Talysia]

I saw this on the BBC website myself, and debated whether to post it here. I found it interesting, too. Thanks for posting it, Allegra!

 

[Allegra]

No problem, Talysia! It's funny this news reminded me something Douglas Adams wrote at the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

'...And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.'

 

[Talysia]

Lol! That quote seems appropriate sometimes!