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Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century
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| November 20, 2010
| Loren Grush
Posted on 11/23/2010 9:21:20 AM PST by Squidpup
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:21:26 AM PST
by
Squidpup
To: Squidpup; SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:25:12 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Squidpup
I just can't imagine why they would find this mix of animals all in one location.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:28:36 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: GeronL
Very interesting for me, my cousins donated this land.
To: Squidpup
Cool stuff.
The mastodons they found in Russia in ice several years back had enough tissue left they were talking about doing some sort of Jurrasic Park creation with a modern day elephant...or something to that affect.
Anyone know more information regarding this? They seemed very serious about it at the time but sure how viable it is.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:31:43 AM PST
by
hoyt-clagwell
(5:00 AM Gym Crew)
To: Squidpup
Helen Thomas’ birthplace?
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:31:53 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers -Thanks for a great season.)
To: Squidpup
Neato to be the one finding something like this.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:33:05 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Don't make me go ALL CAPS on you.)
To: irish guard
so... what was the difference between a Mammoth and a Mastodon again??
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:33:20 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: dfwgator
Well, that construction project is now in permanent limbo.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:37:24 AM PST
by
pingman
(Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
To: The Shrew
...After two weeks of excavating ancient fossils at the Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado... Quick, check the old family homestead papers!
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:38:44 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: GeronL
Mastodons were smaller and not covered with hair.
Woolly Mammoth = hair and bigger.
Mastodon = no hair and not as mammoth. ;)
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:42:55 AM PST
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: GeronL
so... what was the difference between a Mammoth and a Mastodon again?? Wiki sez: Mastodons or Mastodonts (meaning "nipple-teeth") are members of the extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea and form the family Mammutidae; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth which belongs to the family Elephantidae. Mastodons were browsers and mammoths were grazers.
Mammoth.
Mastodon.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:43:42 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: Revolting cat!
The site rivals many others in terms of its diversity, as it is the only known place in Colorado -- and one of few in North America -- that contains both mammoth and mastodon fossils in the same location. And just finding an American mastodon is pretty unusual in itself. "There are only three known records of mastodons in Colorado, and we have found at least five specimens," Miller said. "So throughout the course of 120 years of paleontology, we jumped from three mastodons to eight in a single two-week period." Can the mastadons open a casino yet?
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:45:44 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: Interesting Times
That kind of sounds like a joke. Thanks Wiki.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:46:01 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: allmendream
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:46:39 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Interesting Times
Mastodons were browsers and mammoths were grazers.I'm half browser on my mother's side...
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:48:33 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
To: IYAS9YAS
I switched from grazer to browser back in the Mosaic days.
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:52:20 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: Interesting Times
Make that “... in the Mosaic Era.”
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:53:15 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: Squidpup
A possible reason. A glacial lake might have substantial glacial silt surrounding it, and that kind of silt can be deadly dangerous to walk on.
The most dangerous kind of glacial silt is in a tidewater area, as it seems solid to walk on, but when the tide comes in, it comes in underneath you. Suddenly the ground turns to sandy chocolate pudding and you drop down several feet. You are held there with incredible suction as the water continues to come in, and you drown. There is a lot of it around Anchorage, Alaska, and they have to give out warnings at frequent intervals not to walk on the silt.
But in this case, with no tide, it could be like sand bars, some of which are solid, and some are not. And you only have to hit a bad one once. It is unlikely that even a mastodon could escape from that.
It would be very deceptive, because birds and light animals might be able to cross over it easily.
To: hoyt-clagwell
Anyone know more information regarding this? From Earth in Upheaval by Immanual Velikovsky:
In 1797 the body of a mammoth, with flesh skin, and hair was found in northeastern Siberia, and since then bodies of other mammoths have been unearthed from the frozen ground in various parts of that region. The flesh had the appearance of freshly frozen beef; it was edible, and the wolves and sledge dogs fed on it without harm. [footnote references an observation of D.F.Hertz in B Digby: The Mammoth (1926), p.9.]
Really what is more interesting is the inference Velikovsky makes from this which is that the mammoths must have been entombed and frozen almost instantly, else they would have rotted.
Full text is available at Amazon. (This link takes you to page 19 where the extract I presented appears at the bottom of the page.)
ML/NJ
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posted on
11/23/2010 9:59:51 AM PST
by
ml/nj
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