I am constantly amazed that we are continually surprised when something we did not previously know can't be explained completely by things that we already know. It just isn't conceivable that there are a lot of things that haven't been discovered yet and can be explained by discoveries that we have yet to realize. Who told us that we knew all there is to know already? We do not need myths to explain phenomena beyond the frontier of what we know, just more knowledge.

Elephant shrew. This has been known since the 1970's when $5Au dated her.

I appreciate your sense of humor. The only claim is that these are newly _discovered_ not newly evolved. This has been argued here in the Gulch and never to an agreement. If I may, allow me to offer my own taxonomy.

Neo-Creationists here say that God created the universe and evolution is how He created species. More to the point, the inherent Order in life against its inherent Improbablity argues for an Intelligent Designer. Various individuals offer other facts and reasonings.

Strict Darwinians here say that all the present species evolved from all the previous ones by random mutation and natural selection.

Neo-Evolutionists are atheists who find a different kind of ordering principle, looking perhaps to Stephen Wolfram's _New Kind of Science_. Like the other two, these are just individuals who seem to agree, not a formal school of thought, like Chicago Monetism or whatever. The broad assertion is that strict Darwinism does not explain all of the facts; but granted that, God remains unnecessary.

I just posted the article not to go into all of that, but to counter the claim by greenies that we are destroying the Earth by eradicating species.

…. but it is possible that new species do evolve in historical time. … I also accept as arguable the claim that Earth continually creates petroleum.