Posted on 04/15/2021 3:46:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We have no idea how many fossils have yet to be located. There’s an awful lot of ground that hasn’t been examined. 70 million years ago, the land mass of the earth looked quite different than today.
Sounds like some “scientists” are pulling numbers out of their ass.
Even if true the information has no practical value.
Some are still around - Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters.
Fuzzy math...
Every time a modern day scientist opens their mouth about Dinosaurs, the Biblical account of the flood is about the only logical conclusion one can make about these fossils.
Information just for information’s sake is far better than the ignorance you seem to be promoting.
The more we learn about the past, the better prepared we are to meet the future.
The only group that thinks the way your post came across are the radical muslims. They think that if it isn’t in the koran, it doesn’t matter and should be destroyed.
Proof? The Taliban and the Buddhas. Read ANYTHING put forward by the mullahs. Ignorance writ large.
Even if what these scientists posit is incorrect, it gives us a starting point to learn from and either prove or disprove their thesis.
Real science is putting forward an idea and then trying to DISPROVE it.
2.5 billion animals over 3 million years is NOT VERY MANY, btw. That works out to less than 8500 critters alive in any given year, and fossilization is a vanishingly rare event.
#24 re “Bang A Gong” by T-Rex. Marc Bolan should have gotten a helluva lot of royalties because of all those T-Rexs’ name rights he would have gotten for the song title.
T-Rexs were nasty but not very smart re the issue of “trademarks” and “patent rights”.
Leaving Gorn out of the equation (he forgot to duck), you are on to something very important. Many years ago I talked to one of the top T-Rex paleontologists in the US, from the Un. of Colorado (besides Peter Franz who I knew here in the DC area)..
I’ve forgotten his name but he was featured in a National Geographic issue on the subject of dinosaurs, esp. the T-Rex (TR).
I asked him how many other dinosaurs a TR would have to eat a year in order to survive. The best he could postulate was that a TR group of a certain size would need a feeding-group of 10,000 vegetarian dinos to eat from. These might include the Tricerotops, Stegasaurus, Brontosaurus (id Diplodocus etc. grouping), smaller Coelophysus (I have knuckle finger bone from one I found in Landover, Md - the Smithsonian said it might have been about 6 feet tall or less). From where I come from re a BBQ, it would have been known as an “appetizer” back then).
The dinosaur range of the vegetarians would probably never have supported enough of them for 3 million years or so, to feed 2.5 Billion T-Rexs.
Right now, all we have are T-Rex bodies from a specific limited geographical area/range, say the Black Hills or those in Dinosaur National Park, Col.,on which to speculate and I mean speculate. Triassic Redbeds and even the Cretaceous/Paleocene sandbeds were full of enough iron to help preserve T Rex bodies if they were covered soon after death with deep layers of sediments. If there were billions of them, there would be a lot more bodies found in geographical concentrations around high-vegetarian areas where plant-eaters lived too.
Remember meat-eaters have been found in Alberta Canada formations, perhaps in Artic formations and even in the tip of Patagonia, Argentina to the Antarctic mainland, so there were a lot of dinos around, but just how many could survive in a group in any single location is pure conjecture right now).
#28. Come to the Congress in DC. You’ll find plenty of dinosaurs and their poop (Coprolites) in the toilets of Congress.
Just look at Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). She has to be from the very dangerous dinosaur family/species “Magna Coprolites Mick Jagger Lipsasuckerous”.
Bwah ha ha. That was good.
A Tyrannosaurus in every pot. Now there’s a campaign promise I could support.
How many Democrats have ever lived on earth? Just asking for a friend.
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