SEA PIG
Posted on 09/17/2008 1:54:57 PM PDT by decimon
Scientists from Leeds University have discovered that the world was ruled by pig-like creatures for a million years.
The “Age of the Porcine” occurred around 260 million years ago - when the creatures called lystrosaurs were the few survivors of a mass extinction.
Nearly 95 pct of the living species were destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions leaving behind pigs in a “golden age” of no predators.
They had Earth’s abundant plant-life all to themselves.
“We can only speculate on how lystrosaurs survived while the rest died.
Perhaps its ability to burrow and hibernate protected it from the worst periods,” The Sun quoted Professor Paul Wignall of Leeds University, as saying “The remarkable thing about the lystrosaurs was their size.
“Nothing else that big seems to have got through the destruction - and that is why they were able to dominate Earth for so long. They fed and spread.
“We think there were billions of them. Their fossils are everywhere,” he added Lystrosaurs were similar in size to modern pigs, with snouts and small tusks for rooting around in vegetation. (ANI)
...And they’re trying to make a come-back via barack obumma
SEA PIG
Are you going to defend the occurrence where they found a tooth,
manufactured an “apeman” from it,
put said apeman on display, with his family, in some cultural setting, clothing, tools, fire, shelter,
then found out later that it was the tooth of a boar?
Do you think that because one guy once got carried away, and was quickly corrected by his Scientific peers, that all fossil finds are “one tooth”?
Has anyone told the Muzzies this?
the world was ruled by pig-like creatures for a million years... around 260 million years ago -- when the creatures called lystrosaurs were the few survivors of a mass extinction. Nearly 95 pct of the living species were destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions...Nope, it was an impact of a space rock.
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Asteroid 'destroyed life 250m years ago'Earth's biggest mass extinction 251 million years ago was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, US scientists say. They have reached this conclusion by looking at atoms from a star trapped inside molecular cages of carbon...
by Dr David Whitehouse
Friday, February 23, 2001
In rock layers laid down at the time, there is a much higher concentration of complex carbon molecules called fullerenes that have different types, or isotopes, of helium and argon trapped inside them. These molecules could only have been delivered from space, the researchers say...
The researchers believe these particular fullerenes are extraterrestrial because the gases trapped inside have an unusual ratio of isotopes that indicate they were made in the atmosphere of a star that exploded before our Sun was born...
The telltale fullerenes were extracted from sites in Japan, China and Hungary, where the sedimentary layer at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods had been exposed...
The research was made difficult because there are few 251-million-year-old rocks left on Earth. Most rocks of that age have been recycled through the planet's tectonic processes...
Researchers estimate the comet or asteroid was six to 12 km (3.7 - 7.4 miles) across, or about the size of the asteroid believed responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 67 million years ago...
The mass extinction of 251 million years ago was the greatest on record.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I’m gonna need intense therapy after seeing that photograph.
These Mammal-like-reptiles even survived the great dying (250 mya) and supposedly are our direct ancestor.
Lystrosaurus is a Triassic dicynodont who had survived the Permian extinction. It has been found in Asia, Africa, South America, and even Antarctica. It is very common in the early Triassic and at one time may have represented half the life on earth.
dicynodonts...
So obvious! You'll get that when pigs fly.
I didn’t realize that Shrillery and her bedmates were THAT old!
Somebody had to say it.
Pigs ruled the world 260 million years ago
The Baconator was cheaper back then...........
And wash it down with this.
Don't be silly, it wasn't "just one guy".
There's also the case of the OBVIOUS fraud of attaching a ape jawbone to a human skull fragment, then filing down the canines and presenting that as a transitional form. Once the fraud was exposed, it was obvious that anyone looking at the "original" had to be in on the fraud as well.
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