Thanks to Nick Redfern for clearing that up. We’ve all been worried.
Once again a scientist clears up a mystery, based on his complete and comprehensive knowledge of every fossil everywhere for the past 1.500 million years, to prove that science knows everything and its just a matter of filling in some niggly details. All hail!
I believe that most of the cryptids people are seeing lean more to the ethereal end of existence than flesh-and-blood.
They also said the Coelacanth became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period. They didn’t.
Pelosisaurs
them ones we got upn here mountains is kinda shiny black oval shaped flat head with a long neck and maybe 2 humps, they ain`t scared of humans no way... maybe 30 feet long, theys love to sit at stream mouths entrances to them lakes and just gobble trout and fresh water salmon for dinner coz them lake monsters come out when the sun is goin down coz r too hot earlier..n wintertime they just break thru the new ice to give usn`s a show...in summertime they is chasing them schools of sheepshaed coz you kin see them fish jumping like crazy to git away from them lake monsters for lunchtime,,...
Modern sharks go upstream in the Mississippi all the time, Bull sharks in particular. They are a ‘salt water’ fish. And if we want to play the evolution game, nothing says that a plesiosaur type dino couldn’t have adapted to fresh water.
I have one in my front yard, the kids passing by love it and some adults do too. They take pictures of their kids pointing at it. It’s concrete and has lasted for quite a few years.
I’ve lost so much sleep over this.
” ‘bout tree fiddy...”
If the plesiosaur survived beyond 65 million years ago, why is the evidence to support such a scenario 100 percent absent? Because there is no evidence, that’s why.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. As much as he tries to present his reasoning as scientifically based and I agree with his overall conclusion, that's not a scientific approach.
How about this as proof: the plesiosaur evidence has all either been revealed as fake or has a plausible alternative explanation. Also reptiles, assuming a plesiosaur is a reptile, are generally cold blooded. Scotland is not known for warm weather or large reptiles, and large reptiles even in warm climates sun themselves frequently to keep up body heat. What's the largest naturally occurring reptile at that latitude?
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.
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.
I love Mysterious Universe
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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