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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times on line/ Drudgereport ^
| Aug. 15, 2006
| Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line
Posted on 08/15/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
Funny, I seem to remember being taught that the ice age that killed the dinosaurs killed the mammoth as well. May be you don't realize that there were many ice ages. They started occurring 700 million years ago and the last one only ended 15,000 years ago. There have been 60 separate ice ages in just the past 2 million years.
The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, the mammoth, the saber-tooth tiger and the giant beaver only went extinct during the last ice age - not the ones hundreds of millions of years ago.
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posted on
08/16/2006 5:38:27 AM PDT
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: Protagoras
No thanks, I was just kidding. Maybe you should stop by your local five and dime and buy a sense of humor. LOL Perhaps you should put a "/sarcasm" tag at the end of your comments so we'll all know when you are attempting humor?
To: Thermalseeker
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posted on
08/16/2006 6:06:40 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
("Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists." - Walter Williams)
To: Thermalseeker
I read a Louis La'More book several years ago that had them in the story and mentioned in the back several sightings of mammoths in the Rocky Mountains in the 1800's. One was by a painter that painted them, hairy. He had never been to a circus, or, if my memory serves me right, would NOT have known that they were hairy. I think that they have only been known to be hairy in the last 100 years or so. Which brings me to an interesting point, you're welcome to fill in the rest.
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posted on
08/16/2006 3:53:43 PM PDT
by
DavemeisterP
(It's never too late to be what you might have been....George Elliot)
Did somebody find a blue dress?
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:00:55 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Lazamataz
The last Wooly Mammoth roamed the Earth 7 seconds ago.I got me a "Mammoth Gun," just to keep the mammoths under control here in Kansas City... See how well it's been working? No Wooly Mammoths messing with local gardens around here!
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:03:36 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Oztrich Boy
I'd like to have a pet mammoth.Everyone says that until they have to change the litter box.
It wouldn't be bad if you could just cross a mammoth with a pot bellied pig... They'd have "smallish droppings," not too different from black market beagles. But you know, it's going to be tough, because like the Loverboy songs says, "pig and elephant dna just won't splice!" But who knows, maybe pig and mammoth dna will splice. We need to see!
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:11:38 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: HayekRocks
So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.One would have thought even creationists had heard that stone-age humans made cave paintings of mammoths. As the great philosopher Homer Simpson would put it, DOH!
I KNOW for a fact that people and mammoths lived alongside each other. I saw it on TV. And when the mammoth talked, he sounded remarkably like Ray Romano!
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:14:09 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: null and void
I was thinking more along the lines of Schrödinger's Mammoth...You'd need a pretty big box. And it would probably need to be soundproof.
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:23:15 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: poindexter
The nearly extinct Naked Mammoth has been cited recently...Well, please post some quotes! I'd love to hear what they've got to say!
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:26:46 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: orionblamblam
Once seen on a bumper sticker...
"Why vote for the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulu!"
Mark
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:28:27 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave. It sounds like you think the rest of the world didn't already know that for the past seventy-five years!
Have you ever heard of Folsom and Clovis points that litter the great Southwest?
Do you think those Mammoths were hunted by carnivorous rabbits?
You should have read more as a child. For that matter you should do that still now.
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posted on
08/16/2006 4:39:10 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: ExtremeUnction
Plinking?Best by far!!
Best all week!
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posted on
08/16/2006 5:08:02 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: dread78645
Francesco was no other but a meere nouice, and that so newly, that to vse the olde prouerbe, he had scarce seene the Lions. Francesco was a mere novice, and even so new, that to use the old proverb, he had scarcely seen the lions.
I love our language! Thank you Dr. Asimov.
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posted on
08/16/2006 5:44:51 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: MarkL
I KNOW for a fact that people and mammoths lived alongside each other. I saw it on TV. And when the mammoth talked, he sounded remarkably like Ray Romano! Were there people in those movies? I only remember furry things.
It does raise the question, though, whether neuroticism was the cause of the mammoth's extinction.
To: Lazamataz
Wooly mammoths have been extinct for 7.2 nanoseconds.I just saw a wooly mammoth in my front yard.
To: Labyrinthos
I just saw a wooly mammoth in my front yard.Get into the 21st century!
Upgrade to a Polyestery Mammoth.
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:00:22 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: HayekRocks
I only remember furry things.This will go on my tombstone.
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:01:05 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: edpc
Big game hunting, rides, circus shows, pelts for winter coats.
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posted on
06/16/2007 1:09:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 15, 2007.)
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