Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 06/24/2024 6:02:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
PinGGG!...........................
it is pride month after all.
Thanks Red Badger.
In case anyone is curious, those are quills on the tails of the psittacosaurus and leptoceratops. They’re ancestral to feathers. Sorry, but the “feathered dinosaur” notion is largely inaccurate; the only dinosaurs that had feathers are those that are ancestral to birds. These are somewhat distantly related to those; you can see that archoceratops looks vaguely like a T-rex. Birds are related to the T-rex, but T-rex’s lineage probably lost quills shortly after diverging from birds’ lineage and probably never had feathers. I’m distinguishing between quills and feathers by defining a quill as a long, hollow tube of keratin protruding from the skin, and a feather as a highly branched quill, suitable for warmth if not necessarily flight.
The core issue of our time.
They are all dead.....................A CLUE!................
You are the reason for this madness.
I guess diversity was not their strength. Perhaps there is a lesson here for us.
I believe they were vegetarians as well..............
I remember reading an article in a magazine, way before the Internet, that said there could not have been enough plants and animals on the Earth, even taking into account a billion years, to account for the amount of petroleum being pumped out of the ground.
While coal is definitely a ‘fossil fuel’, you can actually see imprints of plants in it, petroleum is not.
Science has never fully explained just where liquid petroleum comes from, and how it got ‘down there’ in the first place.................
Well, that’s an easy one! God put it there in the first place, then gave us the brains and talent to figure out how to use it to our benefit. ;)
Still working on why He felt SNAKES were necessary. And, Mosquitoes! ;)
I appreciate you humor!
Just a thought, though...
...it could be that the "prince of this world"...
...did a little perversion of creation.
(just somethin tho think about...)
Is it just me or does the artist’s rendering of Medusaceratops look like bacon?
You skipped breakfast?.................
On a related note: for years whenever I drove through Hartford on my way to NYC I saw a sign a bit south of the city that says "Dinosaur State Park Next Exit". I was always curious but never stopped until a few months ago.
They have there footprints...in mud...that dinosaurs made about 200 million years ago.The guide told me they carbon dated the mud and the footprints and calculated 200 million years. The guide also told me that the creatures that walked there probably looked a bit like the creature in Jurassic Park that spit that black stuff in the face of the fat guy who was stealing the dino DNA.
Amazing stuff IMO.
I remember a geologist calling into Rush’s show one time. He explained that crude oil was the byproduct of thermonuclear activity taking place in the Earth’s (core or mantel? I forget.) and that its creation was continuous. His explanation made a heck of a lot more sense than dinosaur grease.
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