Posted on 04/30/2015 7:13:19 AM PDT by Utilizer
Nine hundred kilometers off the east coast of Madagascar lies the tiny island paradise of Mauritius. The waters are pristine, the beaches bright white, and the average temperature hovers between 22°C and 28°C (72°F to 82°F) year-round. But conditions there may not have always been so idyllic. A new study suggests that about 4000 years ago, a prolonged drought on the island left many of the native species, such as dodo birds and giant tortoises, dead in a soup of poisonous algae and their own feces.
The die-off happened in an area known as Mare aux Songes, which once held a shallow lake that was an important source of fresh water for nonmigratory animals. Today, it’s just a grassy swamp, but beneath the surface, fossils are so common and so well preserved that the area qualifies as what scientists call a Lagerstätte, which in German means “storage space.” "What I wanted to know was, how did this drought cause this graveyard?” says Erik de Boer, a paleoecologist at the University of Amsterdam. “How did so many animals die?”
To find out, de Boer and colleagues analyzed sediment cores taken from the area. The layers in a core contain markers that can help scientists reconstruct an ecosystem’s history, such as preserved pollens and microbes. About 4200 years ago, monsoon activity declined dramatically, causing a 50-year megadrought on the island. The cores revealed that during the same time period, the ancient lake became a muddy, salty swamp. “Annually, the lake would get some fresh water in, however this drinking water turned foul during the dry season,” de Boer says.
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You know what they say, “one man’s poison...”
“a newly published clinical study in the New England Journal of Medicine strongly suggests that patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis may, indeed, benefit from a “feces cocktail” from healthy donors.”
http://www.doctorwascher.com/tag/fecal-cocktail
Old wisdom:
Why did God create Man before He created Woman?
So He would not get any fsking insistent and unceasing advice on How To Create Man!
Our featured drinks here at the Tiki lounge tonight: the Hippo Laxative, the Brain Seizure and the Fecal Cocktail.
Knock `em back.
The Climate Change Cult believes that studies like this will get the folks sign up and support their socialist agenda. For most people, they come to the conclusion that climate change has been ongoing for millions of years with little or no human involvement and will likely continue as nature are wont to do.
Another California Drought story?..............
POISONOUS FECAL COCKTAIL!!!
I could only come up with 4...
1) The Entombed Dodos
2) Megadrought
3) Fecal Cocktail
4) Ancient Poison
Sounds like San Francisco, if you ask me.
Ancient megadrought entombed HOMOS in poisonous fecal cocktail.
HEADLINE from the future.
So the dodo died in the do-do.
Poisonous Fecal Cocktail ping.
Wouldn't those be doodoo birds?
Porky in Wackyland?
Yepper!
I’m pretty sure I saw Megadrought lead off for Judas Priest at the Cellar Door in ‘77 or ‘78....
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