Chewing surface of two lower teeth of a 20 million-year-old cane rat discovered by scientists at a hominoid locality in northern Uganda. The specimen is at the Uganda National Museum, Kampala. (Credit: Dale Winkler, SMU)
Posted on 01/01/2011 5:35:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Chewing surface of two lower teeth of a 20 million-year-old cane rat discovered by scientists at a hominoid locality in northern Uganda. The specimen is at the Uganda National Museum, Kampala. (Credit: Dale Winkler, SMU)
Rats go way back
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There’s a close association between vermin and pests and Rats.
and disease
65 million years is a rather extraordinary extrapolation. Science used to be testable.
Was that before global warming?
Hmmm. Prehistoric rodents...
Modern democRATS anyone?
>Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved
Yeah - they evolved into politicians.
and poverty, corruption, murder, etc.
What scares me is with all the food regulation going on and our food industry being systematically taken apart by the Marxists, eventually rats will be a popular protein in the big cities.
Seems to me they’re diverse and abundant now. Just today with our grand daughter we were admiring a squirrel lunching on a decorative pumpkin out on the patio. “Who needs Yellowstone?” was my thought.
And cats. One reason people think that cats became “domesticated” (sort of) later than dogs is that dogs were useful to humans during their earlier time as hunters, whereas cats only became useful to have around when humans moved to a more agricultural existence (coinciding with larger concentrations of humans in cities). The cats were useful to kill the rats that ate the stored grain.
And cats. One reason people think that cats became “domesticated” (sort of) later than dogs is that dogs were useful to humans during their earlier time as hunters, whereas cats only became useful to have around when humans moved to a more agricultural existence (coinciding with larger concentrations of humans in cities). The cats were useful to kill the rats that ate the stored grain.
Sorry about double post. Just loaded a new operating system and it is a little different than what I am used to.
That makes a lot of sense, plus one wouldn’t mind an aloof cat that was an effective hunter. An aloof dog just causes trouble. :0)
The Basic Non Evolution of Modern Man
Other than that, the thing about the 65M years has turned out to be bullshit (all the blood and raw meat turning up in dinosaur remains recently):
QED allows spontaneous sentient behavior, it even predicts it. Wo be unto them....
Except our ancient ancestors did not “evolve”...
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