<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368189" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Interesting Ancestry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To some of us, a tortoise lives on land<br>while turtles only rarely leave the sea.<br>‘Chelonians' applies to any brand, <br>so here I'll use this terminology.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Land dwellers share aquatic ancestry<br>and most of us decided to stay put.<br>Chelonians agreed to disagree.<br>A flippered revolution was afoot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A late Triassic turtle fossil shows<br>a hard-shelled belly plate and softer back, <br>presumably to ward off fatal blows<br>from deeper-dwelling predators' attack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did top shell metaphorically ‘dissolve'<br>when full-shelled forebear sought the sea's embrace? <br>Or did an unshelled forebear's shell evolve<br>in oceanic pilgrimage retrace? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Genetic sleuthing points to latter case.<br>The evidence suggests that once again, <br>the tortoise forebears left their liquid space<br>and plodded (swam?) to shore with sigh, 'amen'. *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From sea to shore to sea to shore once more.<br>You'd surely think a record lies therein.<br>Yet maybe making not three trips but four<br>is water loving cousin terrapin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When next you gaze with love in tortoise eyes<br>and wonder at his mind's soliloquy, <br>from languid, longing looks you may surmise, <br>he's pondering ‘To sea or not to sea'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368189" data-title="An Interesting Ancestry de Diane Hine" data-description="To some of us, a tortoise lives on land while turtles only rarely leave the sea. ‘Chelonians' applies to any brand, so here I'll use this terminology. Land dwellers share aquatic ancestry and most of us decided to stay put. Chelonians agreed t..."></div> </div> </div>

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