A fossil of the dolphin-bodied marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur, discovered as part of a giant cache of nearly 20,000 fossils in China. Credit: Shixue Hu, Chengdu Geological Center in China.
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To: SeekAndFind
Cool.
If they can clone anything off of the soft tissue, I bet it tastes like chicken. ;-)
2 posted on
02/03/2011 12:46:50 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: SunkenCiv
3 posted on
02/03/2011 12:47:50 PM PST by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: SeekAndFind
Life was nearly completely wiped out approximately 250 million years ago by massive volcanic eruptions and devastating global warming. So now the Permian Extinction was caused by .... Global Warming. Why not. If you can't blame Palin or Beck; blame global warming.
5 posted on
02/03/2011 12:59:58 PM PST by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: SeekAndFind
Who can we blame that global warming on?
6 posted on
02/03/2011 1:01:25 PM PST by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: SeekAndFind
They found Helen Thomas’ childhood pet? Sweet.
9 posted on
02/03/2011 1:06:37 PM PST by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: SeekAndFind
"The pattern and timing of recovery can tell us something about how life today might recover after human-induced crises," said researcher Michael Benton, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England. Oh my God. These idiots are trying to tie Gore-bull warming to the Permian extinction event. That event had NOTHING to do with life-generated CO2; it was primarily vulcanism, from what I remember from extensive reading back when I was really interested in this.
10 posted on
02/03/2011 1:08:05 PM PST by
backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
To: SeekAndFind
Soft tissue bones??? I think the word they are searching for is “flaccid”.
15 posted on
02/03/2011 1:11:49 PM PST by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: SeekAndFind
Cool is right. It is just what we would expect to find since the Flood catastrophically changed our world.
16 posted on
02/03/2011 1:14:37 PM PST by
st.eqed
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
Bad-clams ping.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom. 17 posted on
02/03/2011 1:20:40 PM PST by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: SeekAndFind
Life was nearly completely wiped out approximately 250 million years ago by massive volcanic eruptions and devastating global warmingCurse those darned SUV-driving, big-screen-TV-watching, obese, greedy, greenhouse-gas-belching Dimetrodons and Rugose corals!
18 posted on
02/03/2011 1:26:57 PM PST by
rfp1234
(Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!)
To: SeekAndFind
These fossils were obviously placed there by God in order to test the Young Earther’s faith. /s
19 posted on
02/03/2011 1:29:50 PM PST by
LanaTurnerOverdrive
("I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgus)
To: SeekAndFind
and how the world might recover from the damage caused by humanity, scientists added. They just can't help themselves any more...
21 posted on
02/03/2011 2:08:05 PM PST by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: SeekAndFind
“...how life today might recover after human-induced crises,...”
What more does one need to know that this guy already knows the answers he wants to find?
23 posted on
02/03/2011 2:40:17 PM PST by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv
So who collected and cached them there?
And when?
A few years ago, I found a small cache of illegally collected fossils at Fossil Butte National Monument. I showed them to my wife, and photographed them, and then we notified the Park Service rangers. The went to the spot and recovered them, but never found who was illegally collecting.
37 posted on
02/04/2011 10:25:18 PM PST by
ApplegateRanch
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