Posted on 03/31/2016 11:34:01 AM PDT by C19fan
Jaws may have terrified you at the cinema, but the iconic great white would have been dwarfed by Carcharocles megalodon, the largest shark in the history of the planet. The giant creatures lived between 23 million and 2.6 million years ago and scientists are divided over how and why the species perished. Now, details of fossils from the huge shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs have been studied for the first time in an attempt to solve this mystery.
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Bump, off by 40 million years is a big miss.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
mmmm....yes?
Maybe they can find DNA and build a few of them. It might solve an immigrant problem or two.
Nonsense, unless you consider all of science "story telling".
In fact, Paleontology is as much science -- natural-science -- as is geology, biology, astronomy or any other earth science.
captain_dave: "There is no way we can know why a species died off millions of years ago, or even hundreds of years ago.
The only thing for certain these people can tell you is that fossils of a creature of a size and shape where found in a certain rock layer assumed to be of a certain age."
No, not "assumed", found to be of a certain age based on many different quantitative methods, including dozens of different radiometric dating techniques, plus comparisons with other examples of known ages.
As for the "whys" of extinctions, obviously we're talking about educated guess-work here, meaning scientific hypotheses which can be tested against known and future discovered data.
In this particular example, they're only saying data supports more that megalodon died out from changing prey & predators than from effects of globull warming.
That's an interesting hypothesis, we'll see how well it stands the tests of time.
So, call that "story telling" if you wish, but it is based on careful evaluation of evidence, and can be falsified by future evidence.
That makes it science.
Thanks BroJoeK.
Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives -- Monster Week -- Animal Planet
Evidence of a 50-Ton Megalodon? -- Shark Week -- Discovery
Watch Prehistoric Predators Videos Online -- National Geographic Channel -- Canada
Megalodon Sharks still lives!! Evidence that MEGALODON is not extinct
Megalodon Shark Caught On Camera 62 Feet Long Shocking
Megalodon Shark Caught on Tape -- Up-Close Footage by Scared Fisherman
After watching some very enlightening documentaries made by scientists and provided on reputable cable channels, I have been convinced:
The Mermen/mermaid clans hunted Megalons almost into extinction, but a few remnants of each species still exist in the oceans of the world.
(Don’t go into the water)
Paleontology will forever be educated guess work, at least until a time machine is invented. I don't see how any sort of hypothesis can be tested when the only evidence is fossilized bone and tissue. Especially when the only evidence is a tooth or bone fragment from which a whole creature is imagined.
"...so I said, 'okay, how about a little head?"
Lawsuit against Genetically Engineered Salmon
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SeaWorld to STOP breeding killer whales and will not replace current generation in its care [tr]
UK Daily Mail | March 17, 2016 | Snejana Farberov
Posted on 03/17/2016 6:39:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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SeaWorld banned from breeding killer whales in San Diego – but is allowed to double the size of [tr]
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The Blackfish effect: SeaWorld loses $25.4 million after documentary [truncated]
AP and UK Daily Mail | February 26, 2015 | Staff and Alexandra Klausner
Posted on 02/27/2015 6:19:27 AM PST by C19fan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3262228/posts
Hmmm..... I thought they were killed off by men fishing with clovis pointed spears
lol
Chuck Norris eats beef jerky and craps gunpowder. Then, he uses that gunpowder to make a bullet, which he uses to kill a cow and make more beef jerky. Some people refer to this as the “Circle of Life.”
Mega epic!
You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Cello.
Riiiight, and there’s never been any other isotope decay rates applied to geology. We just have no idea how anything happens without carbon involved!
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