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To: ETL; SunkenCiv
"There's room for all types in a newly described fossil that shows 259 baby fish swimming together in a school, approximately 50 million years ago. "

Just to put the 50 million years ago time frame into perspective, the Himalaya mountains hadn't yet formed.

BTW,if you look up at the land mass illustration above, just over to the right of where it says, Indian Ocean, there's a rain forest in Malaysia that has been there for 130 million years....it just sat there as India 'scooted' by.

A 130 Million Year-old rainforest in Malaysia, and it's not in Borneo

31 posted on 06/01/2019 9:59:50 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
BTW,if you look up at the land mass illustration above, just over to the right of where it says, Indian Ocean, there's a rain forest in Malaysia that has been there for 130 million years....it just sat there as India 'scooted' by.

Must have been on the other side of a transform fault, a slip boundary between two separate tectonic plates.

33 posted on 06/01/2019 10:24:43 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! New Updates on Dem-Russia collusion via Ukraine ! Click ETL)
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To: blam
there's a rain forest in Malaysia that has been there for 130 million years
There must be a LOT of raking to do.

34 posted on 06/01/2019 10:28:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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