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This elephant-size mammalian relative, Lisowicia bojani, walked on Earth in the Late Triassic, just when dinosaurs
were evolving to giant sizes.

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1 posted on 11/24/2018 12:36:30 PM PST by ETL
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To: ETL

That thing looks like it could eat a car!


2 posted on 11/24/2018 12:38:57 PM PST by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure:for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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A RHINO and a turtle?

Where have I heard that before?


3 posted on 11/24/2018 12:40:04 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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A cross between a RINO and a Turtle? Are they going to name the monster after Senator McConnell?


4 posted on 11/24/2018 12:49:05 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: ETL

“Our mammal ancestors”

It does look like Joy Behar.....mostly around the beak.


5 posted on 11/24/2018 12:49:43 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Researchers have hypothesized that sauropods grew big to avoid getting eaten.


the absurdity, it burns....................


8 posted on 11/24/2018 12:51:26 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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“Researchers have hypothesized that sauropods grew big to avoid getting eaten.”

Lamarckism makes its comeback! I’m going to hypothesize that sauropods grew big because they were genetically programmed to do so in their DNA, but I’m an amateur.

The other alternative is that they wished they were bigger because they were getting eaten too much, and so they willed themselves larger after they were eaten? Who are these researchers?


14 posted on 11/24/2018 1:28:03 PM PST by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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Wait till they find Fred and Barny. Then it’s really game on.


17 posted on 11/24/2018 1:39:55 PM PST by Track9 (How hot a fire it will be when each Dem gets their due..)
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…”Bojani…”

Weren’t they one of those 80’s Big Hair Boy Bands? ;)

You always post the most interesting stuff. Thanks! :)


19 posted on 11/24/2018 1:53:41 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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20 posted on 11/24/2018 3:50:43 PM PST by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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21 posted on 11/24/2018 3:50:43 PM PST by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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