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‘Wow! I Found a Dragon’s Tooth’: 6-Year-Old Boy Picks Up Mastodon Molar While Hiking
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| Samuel Dodge
Posted on 09/30/2021 1:03:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: MercyFlush; mylife
Were Homo Sapiens in the new world when mastodons were still roaming the earth?
To: nickcarraway
The tooth is set. 12,000 old, which is nothing geologically. I looked it up and minimal time required for fossilization is 10,000 years, so it just makes it.
Of course semi-complete non fossilized mammoths (similar to mastodons) have been found frozen solid and well preserved in Siberia.
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posted on
09/30/2021 3:43:07 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/30/2021 3:45:25 PM PDT
by
mylife
(When I finish this job, I'm going to retire at Rancho Deluxe, just south of the Big Rock Candy Mt)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/30/2021 3:46:17 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
To: nickcarraway
“Mammoth and mastodon fossils are relatively rare in Michigan... Relatively rare, so uncommon relative to other places. Cool. Let's hear some more.
...but compared to other places in the United States, there actually have been more occurrences,” Rountrey said.
So more common relative to other places. Relatively common then?
So confused...
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posted on
09/30/2021 3:48:55 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: pepsi_junkie
Sense from journalists is relatively rare?
To: Flick Lives
I saw that too, but not sure if it widely accepted yet.
To: DannyTN
We can swap them out now.
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posted on
09/30/2021 4:15:49 PM PDT
by
wgmalabama
(We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
To: SunkenCiv
Julian is probably the first person, ever, to touch the tooth -- unless the mastodon had a dental plan. :^) Or the mastodon had a taste for human flesh.
Although I suppose technically that would be the tooth touching the human...
};^P>
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posted on
09/30/2021 4:32:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
(As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
To: Vaquero
Gotta hand it to you on that one...
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posted on
09/30/2021 4:34:25 PM PDT
by
null and void
(As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
To: nickcarraway
There’s evidence that the 1st humans in the North America date back as far as 30,000 years.
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posted on
09/30/2021 5:17:49 PM PDT
by
MercyFlush
(The American Revolution was a violent revolt against a dictatorship. )
To: Red Badger
Well considering that many prolly don’t know what a mastodon was it may be beneficial to throw them a hint.
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posted on
09/30/2021 5:45:23 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(What was once thought impossible is now here. The possibilities are frightening.)
To: mylife
Who touched it 12,000 yrs ago?
....................................
I too noticed the comment you’ve referred to, and I got good chuckle out of it!
To: SunkenCiv; mylife; MercyFlush; Vermont Lt
Yes, probably never touched but then again...
That area looks like theyre dealing with a lot of water. If its boggy there now it was probably boggy there then also. In southern WI there have been a number of finds in boggy areas along/in present day creeks. Supposedly the inhabitants at the time drove them into the swamp to make them easier to kill. There well might be a number of entire but dismantled skeletons just up river where the killing floor had been.
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posted on
09/30/2021 7:36:06 PM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: gnarledmaw
in Wi you hunt deer in there, yup been there, that’s where they are
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posted on
09/30/2021 7:48:17 PM PDT
by
mylife
(When I finish this job, I'm going to retire at Rancho Deluxe, just south of the Big Rock Candy Mt)
To: nickcarraway
You’ve got to be pretty damn stupid to publish a photo of anything as abnormally large as the tooth of a pachyderm and not put something else in the frame for reference of scale.
To: gnarledmaw
They’re extinct because they didn’t floss.
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posted on
10/01/2021 7:49:34 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
Did dinosaur fossils inspire the mythical griffin? Did mammoth bones shape the story of the Gigantomachy? Were the cyclopes modeled on the skulls of dwarf elephants? This video investigates some of the fascinating intersections between fossils and the Greek myths.
This video is part of a collaboration with @NORTH 02 Check out their video "Scimitar Cats, Cave Bears, and Behemoths" for more on the fossils that so fascinated the ancient Greeks and Romans.
If you enjoyed this video, you might be interested in my book “Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans.”...
Chapters:0:00 Introduction
1:37 Dinosaurs and Griffins
3:52 Mammoths and Giants
6:13 Dwarf Elephants and Cyclopes
8:16 Conclusion
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and the Greek Myths | August 20, 2021 | toldinstone
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posted on
10/16/2021 9:50:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: nickcarraway
Great find, but would rather have a find at that diamond park out in the west.
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posted on
10/16/2021 9:53:59 AM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
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