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Pigs ruled the world 260 million years ago: Study
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| Sep 17, 2008
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Posted on 09/17/2008 1:54:57 PM PDT by decimon
Scientists from Leeds University have discovered that the world was ruled by pig-like creatures for a million years.
The “Age of the Porcine” occurred around 260 million years ago - when the creatures called lystrosaurs were the few survivors of a mass extinction.
Nearly 95 pct of the living species were destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions leaving behind pigs in a “golden age” of no predators.
They had Earth’s abundant plant-life all to themselves.
“We can only speculate on how lystrosaurs survived while the rest died.
Perhaps its ability to burrow and hibernate protected it from the worst periods,” The Sun quoted Professor Paul Wignall of Leeds University, as saying “The remarkable thing about the lystrosaurs was their size.
“Nothing else that big seems to have got through the destruction - and that is why they were able to dominate Earth for so long. They fed and spread.
“We think there were billions of them. Their fossils are everywhere,” he added Lystrosaurs were similar in size to modern pigs, with snouts and small tusks for rooting around in vegetation. (ANI)
TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalfarm; cryptobiology; freepun; godsgravesglyphs; lipstick; lystrosaurs; paleontology; planetofthepigs; policestate
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To: decimon
The Jihadis aren't going to like this!!!
How deed Allah permit this to be??!!!
Death to history and science!!!!!!
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:03:46 PM PDT
by
skully
(Sarah Palin eats babies!!!!)
To: sinanju
(The real reason dinosaurs became extinct).
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:04:27 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: Plutarch
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:04:47 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:06:30 PM PDT
by
Mark319
(Obama/Biden...The liberals are going for the throat...)
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To: decimon
Porcine Ping. 
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:09:59 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Say no to the Marxist who "denounces" the 911 terrorist attacks and yet befriended a Pentagon bomber)
To: Plutarch
Give that poor turtle back his shell.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:10:54 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Say no to the Marxist who "denounces" the 911 terrorist attacks and yet befriended a Pentagon bomber)
To: catpuppy
"We're bacon people!"
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:12:30 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Say no to the Marxist who "denounces" the 911 terrorist attacks and yet befriended a Pentagon bomber)
To: Plutarch
What, did they find part of a tooth again and “construct” a whole animal, including skin color, from it?
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:12:34 PM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: BJClinton
“Oh sure, Lisa. Ham and bacon from the same animal. A *MAGICAL* animal.”
- H.Simpson
To: decimon
you can put lipstick on a 250 million-year old
lystrosaur, but it is still a 250 million-year
old lystrosaur.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:23:10 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home page)
To: decimon
So if we picture a quorum of either The House or The Senate, we’ll get a good idea what life was really like back then?
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:23:57 PM PDT
by
E. Cartman
(Screw you, my friends! I'm bravely surrendering to Mexico!)
To: decimon
All I can think of is “Animal Farm”.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:24:00 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
To: E. Cartman
So if we picture a quorum of either The House or The Senate, we’ll get a good idea what life was really like back then?No. Back then the pigs could be sated.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:28:03 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: MEGoody
All I can think of is “Animal Farm”.Some thoughts are more equal than others.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:29:15 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: rfp1234
A reptile with a pig snout is still a reptile!
Lystrosaurus was a therapsid, which wasn't exactly a reptile. They were traditionally called "mammal-like reptiles" but are today classified as a clade and aren't grouped with reptiles any longer. Mammals are actually descended from another branch of the therapsids.
To: decimon
Quick! Someone get me a time machine!
I smell bacon!
Just don't tell my wife. All that free pork around, and she still wouldn't let me have bacon. "What do you want a heart attack???"
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:33:59 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
To: ETL
Somehow I knew that was coming in this thread. Funny!
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:36:02 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
To: decimon
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:37:56 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home page)
To: MrB
“We think there were billions of them. Their fossils are everywhere,”
Yeah, one tooth. Keep telling yourself that.
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posted on
09/17/2008 2:38:09 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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