[Randallw]

They are real. basically someone found a set of fossils from long ago (whenever simple life was forming, but a bit above amoeba and such) they looked at this set of fossils and it was "Ok, I recognize these ones with the backbone and legs, but what are all these fossils with no bones or odd numbers of legs?". (ME) Then again how do you have a fossil with no bones?. I seem to recall the circumstance was there were all the different forms of life coexisting in a lake when a cliff fell on top of them.