Posted on 08/22/2021 11:40:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I recall a fish that was supposed to be extinct for some tens of millions of years…coming up in a net in the 1930s. (Of course that was in the wide open ocean.
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People may scoff at things like this, but I don’t know. There are many places in the deep South that are very remote. Many things that “don’t exist” are in fact alive and well. Bears, panthers and Lord knows what else still wander the swamps and woods. Several years ago my Great Danes treed a strange creature. It was a huge weasel like critter. My female leaped up and pulled it down and killed it. It was over four feet long and had huge teeth. Before I could get a picture the dogs took off with it. I called the wildlife people and they said it was a mink. This was not a mink.
The best argument for no plesiosaurs in Loch Ness is that there is nowhere near enough food to support them.
Interestingly, the reverse proves that thylocines are extinct. The area that they are theorized to inhabit has more of their favorite prey (sheep), and fewer people with guns then ever in the past. If there were any thylocines, there would be a lot of them.
“Settled science” doncha know.
That’s the 2nd week class of 1st year “Introduction to Liberalized Sciences.”
The hand is pointed in the opposite direction in the shadow upon the water.
Clearly a fake.
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Beaney and Cecil.
A four foot plus member of Mustelidae (AKA, a wolverine), would cut your dogs in half, and then cut the halves in half before they hit the ground. Anywhere your dogs bit one, it could turn around and bite your dog’s face off.
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Unless they bit it in the face!
“Unless they bit it in the face!”
These things dodge bullets.
Brought back memories. But I remember them as puppets. There was a Beanie and Cecil Drive-in restaurant in my home town. Don’t remember if I ever successfully begged my parents to let us eat there.
One of the theories is about mutant eels that never get the sex drive to swim to the ocean to breed. Regular eels only mate once and then die after they breed in the ocean. I guess eels that are kept from mating live a very long time in fresh water, there’s supposedly an eel in a well in Sweden that’s 155 years old. And eels never stop growing I guess, so maybe its just a really old big eel.
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They are quite aware that Loch Ness was created in the last Ice Age, which means it's tens of millions of years too young for a sea serpent to have been trapped there since when dinosaurs were alive. They also are aware that the loch has far too little flora and fauna living in it to meet the energy needs of a "sustainable" population of large aquatic animals.
But that doesn't change the fact that the coelacanth and the megamouth shark both were presumed extinct for millions of years before being "discovered" alive and well in the 20th Century.
Plus the Caledonian canal gives creatures in the loch a man-made means to access the sea, which lends the possibility that 'Nessie' might not be a permanent resident there. If they come and go, that would explain why sightings are so sporadic, and how it manages to survive where there is so little food.
They're not saying it's a plesiosaur but descriptions given by eye-witnesses do generally point to something of a similar conformation. Which is one reason they've known for decades that the discredited "Surgeon's Photograph," which they get ceaselessly mocked for, was a fake. In fact that always was a burr under their saddle and they so much as wanted it outed as a fraud because neither the plesiosaur nor any other known reptile of that ilk has had a neck that would articulate in that fashion, like a cobra rearing its head.
It wasn’t a wolverine. I’ve seen pictures of them. The Dane pulled this thing out of a tree and snapped it’s neck. Great Danes that still have the prey drive are stone cold killers but most don’t have it. This girl did. This was definitely in the weasel family but way bigger than minks and such that we have in Alabama.
Scientists assured us the Mountain Gorilla did not exist, nor did the orangutan. Even with a sample body, they assured us the platypus was a hoax. Same thing with somtories of the coelacanth.
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