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Posted on 07/06/2015 8:17:47 AM PDT by fishtank
Tracking Down Leviathan
by Tim Clarey, Ph.D. *
What exactly was the leviathan described so vividly in Job 41? Was it a swimming reptile like a plesiosaur or a mosasaur, or something we have yet to unearth? We may never know the answer for certain, but the latest discovery of a large, semiaquatic dinosaur offers another possibility.1
Most specimens of the large theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus, made famous by the Jurassic Park movies as the dinosaur that defeated T. rex, are found in North Africa. Whether an encounter between the two would have had the same result in reality is highly unlikely. But, the latest estimate has this dinosaur a bit longer than T. rex, coming in at 50 feet from snout to tail.
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Amiot, R., et al. 2010. Oxygen isotope evidence for semi-aquatic habits among spinosaurid theropods. Geology. 38 (2): 139-142.
Field, D. J., et al. 2015. Pelagic neonatal fossils support viviparity and precocial life history of Cretaceous mosasaurs. Palaeontology. 58 (3): 401-407.
Thomas, B. 2015. Was Leviathan Real? Acts & Facts. 44 (2): 15.
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* Dr. Tim Clarey is Research Associate at the Institute for Creation Research and received his Ph.D. in geology from Western Michigan University.
Cite this article: Tim Clarey, Ph.D. 2015. Tracking Down Leviathan. Acts & Facts. 44 (7).
It’s located in Washington DC.
There was a display on this critter at National Geographic, about a block from my office in DC. Haven’t seen it yet...not sure the exhibit is still there.
“Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.”
Psalm 74:14
PFL
It was a story.
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