Posted on 10/02/2008 4:11:11 PM PDT by Justice Department
In the film "10,000 BC," a band of hunters venture on an epic quest, overcoming prehistoric monsters to end up at a land of gods and pyramids.
The fantastic creatures depicted in the movie — from the giant carnivorous birds to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths — actually once existed.
The most famous of the saber-toothed cats was Smilodon, a group of predators often dubbed saber-toothed tigers, although they were not actually close relatives of the modern tiger.
Ironically, Smilodon was recently found to have had a relatively weak bite.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Smilodon californicus
Smilodon, the most famous of the sabre-toothed cats, is the second most common fossil at La Brea. Literally hundreds of thousands of its bones have been found, representing thousands of individuals. It was first described by Professor John C. Merriam and his student Chester Stock in 1932. Today, it is the California state fossil. But Smilodon was not restricted to California; it ranged over much of North and South America.
Saber Cat
Where’s that Helen Thomas photo when you need it?
Weak bite compared with say..
"The German/Russian paleontologist E. W. Pfizenmayer, then at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, explains, what happened in the year 1901, when they came, to dig out this valuable find at the Berezovka River, an eastern tributary of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia:
"Already quite a while before the mammoth carcass came into sight, an odor, not lovely at all, hit my nose, similar to the fumes, coming from a poorly kept horse stable, strongly mixed with carrion smell. Then, after a turn of the path, the skull, rising up high, appeared. And now we were standing at the grave of this diluvial gigantic animal! Rump and limbs were still sticking partially in the earth masses, wherein the carcass had slid down from above out of one of the wide crevasses of the ice-bank. The walls of this ice-bank were rising up at several places nearly vertically above the area, (where the soil) had fallen down." (1926:126).
The Cossack Innokenti Jawlowski, a trader in Kolymsk, told Pfizenmayer: "During the middle of August 1900, several Lamuts (NE Siberian natives) had stayed here for a while, in order to hunt. One of them, Semen Tarabykin by name, told the Cossack later in Kolymsk the following: He had followed with his dog the track of a moose (Europ. elk). His dog then led him to the inviting food, to the mammoth carcass, sticking out partially from the earth-masses. The head, with its soft parts, was then still preserved. It also had a ‘nose’, as long as a one-year old reindeer calf and at the head a tusk could be seen...."
The most valuable piece of skin of the Berezovka mammoth (as Pfizenmayer put it), with its tail, erected penis and testicles.
If the erection occurred due to shortness of breath, this would prove then, that the animal has choked to death, paleontologist E. W. Pfizenmayer (1926) concludes.
At the base of the mammoth’s tail there is an anal-flap. Also the living elephant has such an anal flap.
Dude, that’s in poor taste. I’m no more a fan of Helen Thomas than you are, but whatever her politics, looks, and behavior might be, she’s a human being.
“Dude, that’s in poor taste.”
“I have been wrong in the past about a great many things, and my current or future opinions may be in error as well.”
- B-chan
Hey Dude - lighten up
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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Wow. At first glance, I read that as "...she might be a human being."
A few years ago, there was a Discovery show that covered basically megafauna - after the dinos, there were stunningly huge mammals that showed up. Most aquatic, but some terrestrial, and almost all carnivorous.
IIRC, one was supposedly 40 feet tall at the shoulders...
We’re talking some serious, warm-blooded killers!
KRYTEN: That’s easy for you to say, Mister David. You’re a human.
RIMMER: Only just.
The problem with the movie was not the megafauna, but the idea that they existed in the same time and place as early human civilization.
Barney Frank is hyperventilating.
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