Posted on 07/20/2020 6:49:06 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Paleontologists will tell you that field work is a lot like fishing. Nothing happens for long periods of time. But you can’t catch anything if you don’t have your line in the water.
In San Diego, they’ve had their line in the water. Again.
It was a place where early camels roamed, and prehistoric hoofed mammals, and probably a carnivore or two. And where volcanoes erupted.
The discovery in June joins a roster of significant unearthings during construction projects in San Diego County — mastodons, dire wolves, sea cows, giant sloths, armored dinosaurs — that are painting a fuller picture of the region and how it’s changed over time.
They also unearthed remains of a camel — not a new discovery for this region, but always interesting. A lot of people are surprised to learn camels originated in North America before moving to Europe and Asia. They became extinct here about 11,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at sandiegouniontribune.com ...
Now replaced with dire thugs and their symbiotic fellow travelers and slithering public servants.
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls…"
The United States Camel Corps....
They were talking about Camel Filters in the box.
Paladin used one in an episode.
Big deal...I’ll bet there’s a lot of them being ridden this morning out there.
Back when the gas crisis struck, two jamokes I worked with started riding a camel to work!
They said no gas, eats grass!
Never stuck in traffic goes, down the embankment no problem...
One evening there were two similar-looking camels tied side by side???
Stosh quickly picks up a tail and studies?
Rudy asks, what?
Stosh replies: The other day didn’t you hear a woman shouted out, “Look at that a camel with two assholes!”
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