http://www.nhm.uio.no/pliosaurus/english/index.html
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Reptile = cold blooded, ie, can’t live in a cold climate.
Global warming or cooling?
Leviathan, is that you?
It’s an old species that died out. It’s what happens in nature. It wasn’t hit by an SUV!!
Start the Teddy and Helen Thomas jokes.
remains found?
Was it lost? Just the way I read the head line.
“It seems the monster is a new species,” he told The Associated Press.
The reptile appears be the same species as another sea predator
Sounds like the journalist may be confused.
(2) The reptile appears be the same species as another sea predator whose remains were found nearby on Svalbard last year.
The AP employs the finest writers on earth.
Forensic scientists speculate that Godzilla woke one morning, hit the snooze, and just didn’t get up again. The Japanese flag will be at half mast for the remainder of December.
“with teeth larger than cucumbers.”
Like Janet Reno’s!
Ping!
Mapmakers knew about these monsters hundreds of years ago. They even put warnings on their maps “Here there be monsters” in certain areas.
They've unearthed a link to hillary clinton.
GGG ping
Does that mean it was never lost?
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Northern Crater Shows Prehistoric Deep ImpactTo the rhinos and crocodiles of the far north, the day was like any other. They ate, swam and napped, unaware a celestial body was headed their way at 60,000 miles per hour. Suddenly, a wayward comet screamed into the atmosphere, struck Earth and created a bowl a mile deep and 15 miles in diameter.
by Ned RozellMars On Earth: Arctic Crater Reveals Martian Secrets (pt 2)Haughton Crater is the remaining scar from a high-speed collision between Earth and some heavy object from space about 23 million years ago. The comet or asteroid that created the crater was perhaps more than a mile (up to 2 kilometers) across and slammed into the forest that existed on Devon Island. Everything was annihilated for scores of miles in all directions. The impact churned up rock from more than a mile below the surface, vaporizing much of it. It's estimated that between 70 and 100 billion tons of rock was excavated from the crater in the moments just after the impact. While clouds of dust and gas filled the air, rock rained down from the sky, much of it in the form of what geologists now call breccia, which simply means "broken up." Scattered within the breccia are pieces of a rock called gneiss that normally is dark and dense. In Haughton Crater breccia, the "shocked gneiss" resembles pumice stone -- it's ash-white, porous and very lightweight.Voices of the Rocks"Yet, as it will, life returned to this site of complete devastation... The world those fossils described, the one that flourished on the order of 20 million years ago, during the early Miocene epoch, was strikingly different from today's Arctic... Devon Island was covered with a forest of birch trees and conifers, a landscape that one now finds about 2,000 miles to the south, in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maine. Now-extinct forms of rhinoceros and mouse deer browsed among the trees; shrews and pika-like relatives of modern rabbits darted through the shadows; and freshwater fish swam the lakes and streams...
by Robert Schoch
and Robert Aquinas McNally
(pp 1-3)
other supplier
"Even farther back, on the order of 45 to 65 million years ago, during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, the fossil record shows Devon Island to have been still more profoundly different. Back then, what is now the Arctic was a region of swampy lowlands, slow-moving rivers, and towering forests of dawn redwood, kadsura, and ancestral forms of hickory, elm, birch, sycamore, and maple. Primitive fishes, crocodiles, salamanders, newts, and turtles inhabited the rivers and marshes, while the forests and meadows supported flying lemurs, early primates, forerunners of today's cats and dogs, and ancestors of the rhinos, tapirs, and horses."Reptiles Enjoyed Warm ArcticOn a frigid and barren island called Axel Heiberg in the Canadian Arctic, just 700 miles from the North Pole, scientists have dug up fossil bones of an extinct, cold-blooded reptile known as champsosaur. Like all cold-blooded reptiles, the crocodilelike champsosaurs relied on the sun to warm their bodies and could not survive freezing temperatures. Although plate tectonics slowly move continents and islands, Axel Heiberg hasn't wandered far in the past 90 million years. The location appears to have been at or north of the Arctic Circle during its balmy phase. Most paleontologists believe this period, in the middle of the dinosaur age, to be a warm one, but not that warm. If the findings are confirmed, that would put climate modelers to work on how to make a warm North Pole without overheating the tropics. A hot tropic would have killed off many species around the equator, and the fossil record doesn't show any such die-offs then. The warm Arctic period appears to have lasted 1 million to 2 million years before cooling again.
by Kenneth Chang
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