On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:01:15 -0500, Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> wrote: > While I appear to be wrong as far as jhereg, there do still remain a > number of > Dragaeran species with 6 limbs. A friend and I postulated that 6 limbed > creatures > were those that were native to Dragaera, while the 4 limbed ones were > imports > from the "small invisible stars". However the example of the jhereg and > the > serioli seem to contradict this. > Still, I think it would be interesting to compare leggedness among those > creatures > on which we can speculate. Different number of limbs lead to questions > of relatedness and evolution. > here's a short list of creatures in each group, off the top of my head > and without > having the time to dig through my books atm. Perhaps someone can add > more to it? Interesting - we have species with different numbers of legs - but mammals, reptiles and birds don't vary much (snakes & seals even have the bone structure). We have to move further off the evolutionary scale to find crutacians and insects (not to mention fish). While 6 legged creatures wouldn't be related to Earth creatures, we do know that there has been some gene splicing (or something), between species - even between creatures from various planets. And jhereg is one of the species that has been modified. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/