To: xcamel; Coyoteman
"A good cambrian rock with a fossil in it is damned hard to find...." Seems the fossils were there, but they were a lot smaller than early searchers might have expected.
Among other things, they found teeny, tiny little carbon footprints.
9 posted on
01/11/2009 7:53:09 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
(If you translate Pi into base 43 notation, it will contain this statement.)
To: NicknamedBob
Want a good laugh?
One of my collecting sites is precambrian black shale - loaded with grapolites - which are basically a little “carbon smears” in the layers....
17 posted on
01/12/2009 3:34:03 AM PST by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: NicknamedBob
Among other things, they found teeny, tiny little carbon footprints. DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!
NO more calls, please.
We have a winner!
18 posted on
01/12/2009 3:57:57 AM PST by
grey_whiskers
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