[Marius3188]

Link has a photo of the skull.

[servantoftheservant]

There's an interesting theory that explains these types of findings by the possibility of a polar shift -- the crust of the earth moving from temperate latitudes to the poles from time to time.

[Echo Talon]

Pictures of the skull, sent over e-mail, have prompted residents to speculate whether the skull might belong to a long-extinct deer or sheep that inhabited the land millions of years ago when the climate was much warmer.

Hey why not, "scientists" do it all the time.

[I got the rope]

ping.

[NavVet]

I think it is a Jackalope

Seriously, it is probably one of many species wiped out by Global cooling. You can do your part to combat global cooling by buying an SUV today.

[Redcloak]

Sounds like the Arctic Chupacabra.

[Treader]

Hilarious article! The last line is a capper- "Warm weather that researchers link to the climate change continues to break records in the artic as more southern species venture farther north." What do newly discovered fossils have to do with such a proclamation? Damn- I just may have outlived, my own stupidity- then again...?

[Defiant]

There are all kind of crazy creatures showing up these days! Global warming?

[monkapotamus]

A mysterious skull (shown) discovered on the edge of the Arctic Circle has sparked interest in what creatures roamed Baffin Island in the distant past, and what life a warming climate may support in the future. (CP/HO/Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts)

[coconutt2000]

Global warming, global cooling...

Darned cave men.

[blam]

"This April, researchers announced another big discovery on Ellesmere Island - a strange creature, part fish and part alligator, which could have been the first to crawl from the oceans to shore 375 million years ago."

It's no telling where this land mass was 375 million years ago, someone knows but I don't. It was only 120 million years ago that Africa was still attached to South America. So...

[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]

Thanks scpg2 for the ping. A catastrophism topic (and thanks umgud for your post).

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