Yes, mammoth, but Columbian not Woolly:
Posted on 08/12/2018 10:53:25 AM PDT by ETL
A construction crew in Cape Coral, Fla., in June discovered what is believed to be a bone fragment from a mastodon or mammoth, a report released Friday said.
The fragment was discovered underground by crews working on the city’s utilities expansion project, The Fort Myers News-Press reported. It is believed to be a part of the animal’s humerus bone, according to The Cape Coral Daily Breeze.
It is not entirely clear how old the find is; The News-Press reported it could be more than two million years old, while NBC2 put it at somewhere between 12,000 and 250,000 years.
What’s more, archaeologists think there could be more fossils in the area.
"It's a fairly large bone fragment and is unlikely to be the only bone in the area," Ryan Franklin, the assistant director of the Archeological and Historical Conservancy Inc., which was called about the find, told The Cape Coral Daily Breeze.
The bone fragment, which was roughly one foot in length and 10 inches wide, will be donated to the Cape Coral Historical Museum.
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I learned that much from a Quincy episode as a kid and heard enough about it in real life from my dad who spent a lifetime in the construction biz.
Yes, mammoth, but Columbian not Woolly:
These poor creatures were killed by Global Warming.
You bastards!
Thanks ETL.
Thanks! Very interesting. Great map, too.
killed by global warming no doubt
Map makes perfect sense of course in that the more “furry” Woolly Mammoths would be in the northern regions.
Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi Hibbard, 1955)
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Dimensions: length - 4,25 - 6 m (withspiralled tusks), height - 3,5 -4,0 m, weight - 9000 kg
Temporal range: during the Late Pleistocene epoch (endemic to North America)
The Columbian Mammoth was one of the last members of the American megafauna to go extinct, with the date of disappearance generally set at approximately 12,500 years ago.
However, several specimens have been dated to 9,000 years ago or less and one near Nashville, Tennessee was reliably dated to only about 7,800 years ago.
Restoration of a Columbian Mammoth
The Columbian mammoth was one of the largest of the mammoth species and also one of the largest elephants to have ever lived, measuring 4 metres tall and weighing up to 10 tons.
It was 3.3 m long at the shoulder, and had a head that accounted for 12 to 25 percent of its body weight. It had impressive, spiralled tusks which typically extended to 2.0 m.
A pair of Columbian Mammoth tusks discovered in central Texas was the largest ever found for any member of the elephant family: 4.9 m long.
https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Mammuthus-columbi
There's no good date estimate on this yet, but my uneducated guess is, these are in excess of 500K, and definitely very much in excess of the black mat impact event at the end of the megafauna era. But, that won't stop me from posting this again:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
You have to remember that the ocean was about 400 feet lower at the end/peak of the last ice age. That means there would have been a ridge of hills around 400 feet high and hundreds of miles long visible from the ocean shoreline. I don’t understand why people/scientists would not have been interested in mammoth bones that still had skin on it.
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>> “I don’t understand why people/scientists would not have been interested in mammoth bones that still had skin on it.” <<
Because they have no desire to expose the fraud of their “old Earth” scam.
Most of the dinos were still thriving 1000 years ago, although not able to grow as large as the pre-flood dinos did due to our oxygen starved atmosphere.
What do you think all the mideval writings about “dragons” are about?
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They had to have been killed by the unbreathable gasses before they became buried.
1,000 years? So Jesus could have ridden a T Rex?
That’s a funny idea.
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Why would he want to ride a monster?
What was said about them in Job?
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Floridians will eat anything.
I bet it didn’t taste like chicken. :)
The worms of the middle ages were large eels, which is why they're found and killed in rivers. In Ireland they're known as "horse eels" and in the 20th century still got seen once in a while (in the 1970s, one died because it got caught in a sluice gate on a canal). It is an eel species that gave rise to the Loch Ness sightings.
Dinosaurs, by contrast, have been extinct for 65 million years.
Job also talks about being swallowed by a whale. That is actually impossible due to a lot of reasons. Surviving that is also impossible.
That kind of gives it a fairy tale quality doesn’t it?
I think that the medieval writing on dragons was probably based on information from China where dragons were prominent in art. They no doubt had found many skeletons of monster animals which they called dragons, but which were in fact dinosaurs. There are large numbers of such skeletons in the Gobi desert. Where on earth were these dinos thriving 1000 years ago and where are their mini skeletons found????
As to skin being on mammoth bones that were more than 10,000 years old, that was certainly possible if they were in a desiccating sand dune environment. Mummies/bodies buried in Egyptian sands as much as 7,000 years ago still have skin.
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