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Mammoths killed by abrupt climate change
http://phys.org ^ | July 23, 2015 | Provided by: University of Adelaide

Posted on 07/24/2015 10:12:25 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks Red Badger. Nice two-list ping topic! Three, if we count the Digest list...

41 posted on 07/24/2015 10:40:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: JoeProBono

good one!


42 posted on 07/24/2015 10:44:51 AM PDT by brivette (lol~)
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To: Red Badger
"closely resembles the rapid man-made warming occurring today"

I stopped reading right there.

43 posted on 07/24/2015 10:47:54 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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To: driftdiver

OMG

too bad toll booths didn’t stay extinct


44 posted on 07/24/2015 10:48:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Rinnwald

My Wife and I thought that show was great, although I have no idea why. It just cracked us up.

I think it was a combination of The Honeymooners and the Flintstones.


45 posted on 07/24/2015 10:49:03 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the ony ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Red Badger

It must have been all those huge smokestacks belching out tons of pollution that I saw on “The Flintstones” when I was a kid.


46 posted on 07/24/2015 10:49:31 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Red Badger
Cue the music
47 posted on 07/24/2015 10:50:53 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Red Badger

There is nothing new about this idea, THEY just buried it for their political agenda. I’m 65. In the first grade we we taught that frozen wooly mammoth carcasses found in Siberia still had green grass in their mouths. The assumption was that the cold hit them suddenly.


48 posted on 07/24/2015 10:53:42 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

DAMN YOU, GEORGE BUSH!


49 posted on 07/24/2015 10:56:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Red Badger

How do they explain the fact that Asian and African elephants, which are closely related to the Mammoth, survived. Furthermore, how do they explain that Wolly Mammoths and Channel Island Mammoths went extinct only about 4000 years ago, well past the date of the Ice Age figures given in this article. I don’t believe that there were not enough grassy lands available to support large mammals. If so the bison would’ve gone extinct in North America as well.


50 posted on 07/24/2015 10:57:25 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Red Badger
I knew it! Those mammoths always loved their SUVs.
51 posted on 07/24/2015 11:02:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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To: GingisK

I saw that “flash-frozen” notion on a nature show on TV once. Narrated by Charleton Heston. Fascinating. The explanation (for how a wooly mammoth died by freezing to death within minutes of dining on fresh daisies) was a sudden shift in the complete outer crust of Earth. The theory was that over time one pole or the other will become so large and heavy with ice build-up that the outer surface of the planet shifts on the molten core. So,....the tropics might suddenly become located at a pole, or some such.......


52 posted on 07/24/2015 11:02:52 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

The Asian and African elephants were probably safe being way further south so never ran out of food sources.

The gestation period for Asian elephants is 617 days and African elephants is 645 days, almost 2 years, so I think the mammoth would be similar. Whereas the gestation period for a bison is only 285 days, so they reproduce much faster...............


53 posted on 07/24/2015 11:03:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

When the sun goes nova, warmists are finally going to be right.


54 posted on 07/24/2015 11:05:38 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

The earth will be long gone and burned to a cinder before the sun goes nova. It will become a Red Giant first, expanding to near the orbit of Mars.......................


55 posted on 07/24/2015 11:15:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: LibWhacker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

Could go supernova any day in the next million years........................


56 posted on 07/24/2015 11:21:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Great job identifying "Dinosaurs" from a pic without any of the principles. Although the animatronic dinosaurs might have given it away if you're of the right age.

I think it was a combination of The Honeymooners and the Flintstones.

Flintstones was definitely a derivative of The Honeymooners, so you could call Dinosaurs a grand-child.

"Not the mama!

57 posted on 07/24/2015 11:23:20 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Red Badger
"The abrupt warming of the climate caused massive changes to the environment that set the extinction events in motion, but the rise of humans applied the coup de grace to a population that was already under stress."

It's not your fault, but it's still your fault.

58 posted on 07/24/2015 11:27:49 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

I read once that a paleontologist theorized that the primitive human societies probably killed few mammoths. They most likely would kill one, then tell the tale around the campfires for decades...................


59 posted on 07/24/2015 11:30:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

Elephants can be found living today as far north as the desert area of Mali. The lack of widespread grasslands there seems to be no encumbrance to their survival. Furthermore, Colombian Mammoths lived all over North America including Mexico, which is approximately the same latitude.

I find it simply inconceivable that grasslands would have been so greatly diminished due to any global warming period around that time as to have caused the complete extinction of such a wide ranging species.


60 posted on 07/24/2015 11:32:35 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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