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Giant prehistoric lizards co-existed with humans
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| October 01, 2015
| Walt Bonner
Posted on 10/03/2015 7:44:05 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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10/03/2015 7:44:06 AM PDT
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WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
Still do. See Komodo Dragon...
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:47:27 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
To: WhiskeyX
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:47:36 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: WhiskeyX
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:53:06 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: WhiskeyX
It figures they were in Australia.
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:55:00 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Step away from the Koolade.)
To: WhiskeyX
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:55:27 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: WhiskeyX
16 ft lizard. Sound like good eatin’.
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posted on
10/03/2015 7:55:33 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
To: WhiskeyX
Don’t we usually call giant lizards dinosaurs?
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posted on
10/03/2015 8:07:02 AM PDT
by
Smittie
(Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
To: WhiskeyX
New hatch lizard
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posted on
10/03/2015 8:12:47 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: WhiskeyX
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posted on
10/03/2015 8:27:53 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: Smittie
Lizards, giant or otherwise, are not dinosaurs - calling one the other is foolish and misleadiing.
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posted on
10/03/2015 9:27:33 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
Dinosaurs are more closely related to birds.
Are alligators and crocodiles classified as lizards?
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posted on
10/03/2015 9:34:19 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: WhiskeyX
I recall one theory that proposed they killed them off by lighting brush fires in the early morning when they were torpid after a cool night.
Freegards
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posted on
10/03/2015 9:41:15 AM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: Smittie
Lizards are cold blooded. Dinosaurs appear to have been warm-blooded.
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posted on
10/03/2015 10:05:13 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: cripplecreek
I don’t think so, but ...
Wiki for what its worth:
“Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with approximately over 6,000 species,[1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria (reptiles with overlapping scales) that are neither sphenodonts (i.e., tuatara) nor snakes they form an evolutionary grade.[2] While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the Toxicofera clade from which they evolved, the sphenodonts are the sister group to the squamates, the larger monophyletic group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes.”
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posted on
10/03/2015 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
What I’m finding is that Alligators and Crocodiles are classified Crocodillia with lizards falling in the squamata category.
In the case of Australia it sounds like they were talking about an oversized monitor lizard of some type. Australia also had the Elephant Birds or Moas till fairly recently.
http://messybeast.com/extinct/moa.htm
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10/03/2015 10:19:15 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: WhiskeyX
No big surprise. Komodo dragons measure 10 ft.
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posted on
10/03/2015 10:34:31 AM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: tumblindice
We got one running the country...
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posted on
10/03/2015 10:35:39 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: WhiskeyX
Any immediate coexistence was probably short and likely ended very, very badly for the human.
To: WhiskeyX
Here is some documentary footage from a group that had been on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. No word if they came across 7 shipwreck survivors. They may have been on another island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTOAkzQk-4
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