Posted on 05/18/2012 6:35:17 AM PDT by C19fan
Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a children's pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen the fossilised remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia. The turtle in question is Carbonemys cofrinii, which means 'coal turtle', and it is part of a group of turtles known as pelomedusoides. The specimen's skull measures 24 centimeters, and the shell, which was recovered nearby and is believed to belong to the same animal - measures 172 centimeters, or about 5 feet 7 inches, long.
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Hmm, guess it wouldn't make a good house pet.
“To speculate such is an empty, meaningless venture into the world of imagination, not science.”
Ha! That’s a good one. If someone speculated on such “meaningingless ventures”, and was able to come up with a demonstrable theory based on those speculations, we’d hail him after the fact as a visionary. Of course, until that success is achieved, we only get the poo-pooing of the forces of orthodoxy.
Not quite. Gravity is a function of mass and distance. Surface gravity on the Earth has varied over hundreds of millions of years. The reason has nothing to do with accretion of mass on the Earth’s surface but the movement of the Earth’s core elements (inner/outer cores and the densest part of the lower mantle.
A PDF summary of ‘The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction’ can be found at www.dinoextinct.com
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We don't know that for sure.
Suppose the gravitational constant has changed? And the only reason gravity worked is because of trillions of tiny machine guns who's little tiny bullets impacted things on a molecular scale, allowing gravity to SEEM constant, but then Eric Holder banned the machine guns and we needed regular gravity.
I saw one in Missouri cross the road in front of me. I stopped, it was the size of the engine in my car. It was headed to a pond on a friends property. Later she told me one of her swans was just floating in the water with it’s head down. They got out the boat and pulled it up........no head.
YIKES!!
My personal theory is that it was the higher atmospheric CO2 levels that allows larger animals and the larger vegetation to support the animals.
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