[Tzimisce]

70 million years ago, Alaska was where California is right now....

[himno hero]

I tinks de description is off. If you go to Ellesmere Island, you can walk the beaches in July and pick coral, the same coral that you find in Hawaii today. In order for it to grow, you need an ambient temp of roughly 80 degrees.....which would suggest to me that its not always been cold there!

[CanadianPete]

I just want to alert everybody that on Tuesday, December 21 at 8 pm on PBS they are showing a Nova program called Arctic Dinosaurs. It appears that they were living right up to the arctic circle. It was warmer then. I’ve seen this program before and it’s actually quite interesting. Also, I was wondering if someone could make a program alert thread that would keep people updated on interesting tv programs that are upcoming. Something like a megathread where anybody could alert us all to any programs that might be interesting. Just throwing this out as an idea for anybody to pick up on. I originally posted this in the following thread. Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic Island http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2645650/posts?page=1 P.S. Sorry about the formatting but it doesn't seem to respond to my input.

[allmost]

Birds, and reptillians, are the progeny supposedly. The dinosaurs were reptilian with air temperature bodies, slow metabolisms, and temperature regulated growth cycles. The avian with rapid heartbeats, high internal body temperatures, high metabolism, and therefore much higher caloric intake... Wait...what?

[gleeaikin]

Hi SC, this may interest you and your pingees.

[calex59]

That’s because there were no “harsh polar Regions” back then.

[VeniVidiVici]

Good thing about a 70 million year old dinosaur bone is that after you’re done with it you can throw it in your gas tank.

[CanadianPete]

Well, I hope you all enjoyed it.

In case you missed it they will be re-airing it. In my area, for instance, on Thursday Dec 23 at 11:30 pm. You should check your local PBS affiliate because the re-air times aren’t always the same for different affiliates. They usually differ by a day or two.

Finally, if you don’t have an affiliate, you can watch the video online. Just goto the link for the article. It is the page for the documentary and allows online viewing.