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Pigs ruled the world 260 million years ago: Study
Newspost Online ^ | Sep 17, 2008 | Unknown

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: Born In America
Matt Damon whines about Sarah Palin being an unknown but he says nothing about an empty suit who has connections to serious scumbags. Matt has no problem voting for a candidate who refuses to release his real birth certificate, refuses to release his college transcripts and has had close relationships with terrorist scum he refuses to talk about. Maybe if Matt had a brain he would notice that the questions surrounding Obama are far more serious then Sarah Palin’s belief in dinosaurs.
41 posted on 09/17/2008 2:42:05 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: decimon

...And they’re trying to make a come-back via barack obumma


42 posted on 09/17/2008 2:50:28 PM PDT by J40000
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To: weegee
It takes all kinds:

SEA PIG

43 posted on 09/17/2008 3:23:26 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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To: allmendream

Are you going to defend the occurrence where they found a tooth,

manufactured an “apeman” from it,

put said apeman on display, with his family, in some cultural setting, clothing, tools, fire, shelter,

then found out later that it was the tooth of a boar?


44 posted on 09/17/2008 3:23:26 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)
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To: MrB
No. I am going to say that your construction was a silly straw man designed to discount any fossil finds no matter how numerous or complete as ‘just a tooth’.

Do you think that because one guy once got carried away, and was quickly corrected by his Scientific peers, that all fossil finds are “one tooth”?

45 posted on 09/17/2008 4:01:24 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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To: decimon

Has anyone told the Muzzies this?


46 posted on 09/17/2008 4:53:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup ('08 VOTING for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY and voting for SARAH PALIN!!!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; ...
the world was ruled by pig-like creatures for a million years... 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...
Nope, it was an impact of a space rock.

Many thanks to decimon. I've pen wondering whether they ever had wings, so I ham a little disappointed that there's no information about that.
 
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47 posted on 09/17/2008 10:01:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Asteroid 'destroyed life 250m years ago'
by Dr David Whitehouse
Friday, February 23, 2001
Earth's biggest mass extinction 251 million years ago was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, US scientists say. They have reached this conclusion by looking at atoms from a star trapped inside molecular cages of carbon...

In rock layers laid down at the time, there is a much higher concentration of complex carbon molecules called fullerenes that have different types, or isotopes, of helium and argon trapped inside them. These molecules could only have been delivered from space, the researchers say...

The researchers believe these particular fullerenes are extraterrestrial because the gases trapped inside have an unusual ratio of isotopes that indicate they were made in the atmosphere of a star that exploded before our Sun was born...

The telltale fullerenes were extracted from sites in Japan, China and Hungary, where the sedimentary layer at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods had been exposed...

The research was made difficult because there are few 251-million-year-old rocks left on Earth. Most rocks of that age have been recycled through the planet's tectonic processes...

Researchers estimate the comet or asteroid was six to 12 km (3.7 - 7.4 miles) across, or about the size of the asteroid believed responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 67 million years ago...

The mass extinction of 251 million years ago was the greatest on record.

48 posted on 09/17/2008 10:07:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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49 posted on 09/17/2008 10:08:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


50 posted on 09/17/2008 10:16:58 PM PDT by Salamander (Destroy America! Vote Obama, 08!)
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To: wolf24

I’m gonna need intense therapy after seeing that photograph.


51 posted on 09/17/2008 10:21:51 PM PDT by rdl6989 (What isn't above Obama's pay grade?)
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To: decimon

These Mammal-like-reptiles even survived the great dying (250 mya) and supposedly are our direct ancestor.


52 posted on 09/17/2008 10:40:27 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama's Pay Grade: Chump Change - Under the Cone of Stupid)
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To: SunkenCiv

Lystrosaurus is a Triassic dicynodont who had survived the Permian extinction. It has been found in Asia, Africa, South America, and even Antarctica. It is very common in the early Triassic and at one time may have represented half the life on earth.

dicynodonts...

53 posted on 09/17/2008 10:49:33 PM PDT by Fred Nerks ( FAIR DINKUM)
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To: SunkenCiv
I've pen wondering whether they ever had wings, so I ham a little disappointed that there's no information about that.

So obvious! You'll get that when pigs fly.

54 posted on 09/17/2008 11:31:38 PM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla (Yesterday's Left = today's status quo. Thus "CONSERVATIVE": a conflicted label for battling tyranny.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I didn’t realize that Shrillery and her bedmates were THAT old!


55 posted on 09/18/2008 3:48:54 AM PDT by Quix (POL LDRS GLOBALIST QUOTES: #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)
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To: decimon
Somebody had to say it.
56 posted on 09/18/2008 3:50:40 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: decimon

Pigs ruled the world 260 million years ago

The Baconator was cheaper back then...........


57 posted on 09/18/2008 5:20:49 AM PDT by TheRobb7 (Has "Movement Conservatism" FINALLY been reborn?)
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To: TheRobb7
The Baconator was cheaper back then...........

And wash it down with this.

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58 posted on 09/18/2008 6:27:35 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Plutarch
What were they smokin' when they decided that looked like a pig? Even the pic at Nat'l Geographic doesn't look like a pig and definitely not like the pigs feeding at the trough in DC.
59 posted on 09/18/2008 7:01:20 AM PDT by Jaded ("Eloquence is no substitute for experience" -Joe Lieberman)
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To: allmendream
one guy once got carried away

Don't be silly, it wasn't "just one guy".

There's also the case of the OBVIOUS fraud of attaching a ape jawbone to a human skull fragment, then filing down the canines and presenting that as a transitional form. Once the fraud was exposed, it was obvious that anyone looking at the "original" had to be in on the fraud as well.

60 posted on 09/18/2008 9:20:10 AM 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)
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