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Pliny the Elder wasn't crazy after all. There were whales in the Mediterranean
Fox News ^
| July 11, 2018
| Kimberly Hickok
Posted on 07/12/2018 5:51:09 AM PDT by C19fan
Scientists have questioned the credibility of Pliny the Elder's now 2,000-year-old account of orcas hunting whale calves near the Strait of Gibraltar, since those marine mammals aren't known to visit that area. Now, archaeological evidence suggests Pliny knew exactly what he was talking about. Researchers discovered whale bones from the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) and the Atlantic gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) within the ruins of an ancient Roman fish-processing facility located along the Strait of Gibraltar. The discovery was published today (July 10) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: rome; whales
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Nice to know Pliny the Elder giving the Roman equivalent of the middle finger to the modern day doubters.
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posted on
07/12/2018 5:51:09 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/12/2018 5:53:10 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: C19fan
They called it digitus impudicus.
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posted on
07/12/2018 5:57:13 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: C19fan
What would he have had to gain by making it up? Nothing therefore bias should have been toward accepting his account as factual. But now the stupid will take another turn into being evidence of “climate change,” bet on it.
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/12/2018 5:57:35 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: C19fan
Quas vidisti in albis cete?
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:01:32 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: C19fan
Nice click-bait headline.
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:06:22 AM PDT
by
TexasGator
(Z1)
To: RegulatorCountry
What would he have had to gain by making it up? Nothing ...True. However, many ancient documents of geography or natural history have significant errors. The most likely reason is, not that it was "made up" by the author, but that information went through multiple stages of hearsay, accumulating errors with each transmission, before it was written down for publication.
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:10:26 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Fill in my standard rant.)
To: RegulatorCountry
Yep, Climate Change killed off the whales in tHe Mediterranean............
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:20:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: Red Badger
Darn those Roman SUV drivers!
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:30:19 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:32:24 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: C19fan
How else would Pliny have known how to identify them? Did he travel to the Atlantic coast?
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:34:02 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:35:15 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Ezekiel
Amazingly, he is still alive.
To: C19fan
Pliny enthusiastically tortured and murdered christians for a living.
He must have been a democrat.
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07/12/2018 6:49:53 AM PDT
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stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: C19fan
Pliny enthusiastically tortured and murdered christians for a living.
He must have been a democrat.
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07/12/2018 6:50:18 AM PDT
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stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: C19fan
They used to say that the eyewitness accounts of his son, Pliny the Younger, regarding the eruption of Vesuvius were silly sensationalism.
Then Mt St Helens blew in a similar way and they decided he was actually really accurate.
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:56:58 AM PDT
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pepsi_junkie
(Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
To: C19fan
Sorry, but the med is solidly within killer whales range of known habitat. Who is claiming it isnt?
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posted on
07/12/2018 6:58:46 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: C19fan
Love it when historical facts are smashed.
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07/12/2018 7:00:35 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: P.O.E.
digitus impudicusHad to look that one up (instead of thinking about it a little first)...
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posted on
07/12/2018 7:14:10 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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