Thanks C19fan.
Posted on 07/10/2020 2:59:01 AM PDT by C19fan
A giant 16-foot long dolphin has been discovered that lived 25 million years ago and was an apex predator. The prehistoric beast feasted on large-bodied prey, like the killer whale does today. Scientists have given a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of the extinct dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina in the US.
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Not surprising, considering that killer whales ARE dolphins...
Need a Jurassic Fight Club Match: Megalodon v. Ankylorhiza tiedemani. Brains v. Brawn.
I wonder if the dolphin is one of Linda Grahams’ ancestor? Nah. He’s related to minnow.
This is a wild arse guess. They have no clue whether it was 25-million or 2-million or even 1-million. Their opinion is based on a model of time. We all should be familiar with the accuracy of the models used to predict the Covid-19 garbage and how inaccurate they were. Same is true of the global warming models. Al Gore, the inventor of the internet, parroted the “there will be no snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro by 2020” crap. Where did he get this—from a computer model that was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Killer whales are very large Dolphins. “The killer whale is one of 35 species in the oceanic dolphin family, which first appeared about 11 million years ago.”. So whether they diverged from this dolphin or ran a parallel evolution the fact is that the killer whale (orca) is a very large (larger) dolphin that eats large mammals and fish and swims in today’s oceans.
I believe they use Radiocarbon dating. This was being done before computers were as incredibly fast as they are now. It is for the most part pretty accurate. Modern computation methods make the process even more accurate.
To compare Al Gore and his Bull Sh** to computers (no he invented NOTHING) does a disservice to those in science who aren’t using (abusing) science for political purposes
It’s almost as if intelligent mammals are apex predators.
Gosh, who’da thunkit?
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
“This is a wild arse guess.”
So true.
Many models are just linear regression containing multiple variables. Correlation does not equal causation.
Some models contain and rely assumptions that are barely more than guesses.
Yet models are now science (if they show what the establishment and media wants).
Yes, but carbon 14 has a relatively short half life, so other radioactive elements are used to determine longer periods of time (as in this case). Other isotopes used are uranium to thorium or lead, samarium to neodymium, potassium to argon.
Thanks C19fan.
Their time estimates are based on the geology of the rock the fossil was found in. It’s not hard to look this up.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Unattributed wiki copy and paste.
“.....a disservice to those in science who aren’t using (abusing) science for political purposes”
I would consider it an honor to meet both of “those”.
The abusers, the politicians and the media have all ruined the general reputation of nearly all science professionals.
I do not know how to fix it, but I know it’s broken.
Plenty honest scientists exist & the publish but their findings. However they don’t fit the ‘ hair-on-fire PR narrative’ so to the MSM media they don’t exist.
I bet that this creature battled Megaladon as prey and that foreshadows the continuing genetic enmity between dolphins and sharks today.
Or probably not.
LOL
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