Mysterious Arctic skull raises questions about what animals once roamed North

CNews ^ | 30 May 2006 | JOHN THOMPSON

[Mike Darancette]

a long-extinct deer or sheep that inhabited the land millions of years ago when the climate was much warmer.

So for millions of years the earth has been undergoing global COOLING?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Velikovsky was a kook. He also wrote a book "Twelfth Planet (I think)" that contends that there is a planet in an excentric orbit that brings it close to earth every 10,000 years. The inhabitants of this planet visit us at that time. They are Von Daniken's gods in space-ships. Velikovsky, like Von Daniken, never worries about evidence, or science when it comes to proposing his theories.

None of that is correct.

[Lady Jag]

Those horns don't look familiar, can't think of what they might resemble.

[Fred Nerks]

The fossil forest on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian High Arctic, discovered in 1985 by the Geological Survey of Canada, is a unique site due to the amount of exposed tree material — some of which is 40 million years old, and dates from the Eocene period. On hillside terraces formed by glacial rivers and the action of wind on thawed soil, tree stumps up to several metres in diameter poke through the forest floor detritus. The site is 1 km long x 5 km wide, and is located near 80o north latitude.

Geologists have discovered in Antarctica the remains of three ancient deciduous forests complete with fossils of fallen leafs scattered around the tree trunks. The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.

[Fred Nerks]

Could be a goat?

[CGVet58]

a kook, eh? So also thought Carl Sagan (and trumpeted constantly, thereby adding to the hue-and-cry from the rest of the scientific community thus labelling Velikovsky). Sagan also averred that the Earth's geological evolution was a benign one free of any impacts from stellar objects.

Yet today we see specials on the History Channel, or Discovery, about the science of Catastrophism, which was what Velikovsky maintained.

Yes he did come up with some weird stuff, but it's always interesting to me how often and continually the metaphoric "Pharisees unite against the upstart" paradigm appears amongst our (self-anointed...) intelligentsia... and how little credit if any is given to the Velikovsky's of the world when something does prove viable.