Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 09/15/2021 11:03:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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I’ve always thought it was peculiar that there’s no historical record of any dinosaur fossils pre Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Didn’t Thomas Jefferson find some bones and begin collecting?
The stories of Dragons may have originated from the discovery of fearful looking fossils.
There were.
The Chinese called them “dragon bones.”
A study of a dinosaur femur in 1676 determined that it was from a large, unidentified animal, then went off the tracks suggesting that it came from a giant or a Titan.
So there were dinosaur fossils, but they were mostly un-identified as such.
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“I’ve always thought it was peculiar that there’s no historical record of any dinosaur fossils pre Darwin’s theory of evolution.”
Sure there was... They just didn’t have a clue what they were, or had yet invented the definition of “Dinosaur”. Before that they were most likely considered “Dragon” fossils. And dragons go way back...
Yep...
“Fascinating...”
I see yet another Jurassic park movie with the horned one.
Well, it isn’t true. The oldest attributable find is in the late 1600s, and in the 1830s and 1840s there were a number of finds of bones and tracks. They just were attributed to different things, like giant iguanas, or the tracks of mythical ravens.
“Yeah,I want to see the animals in between on the evolutionary scale.”
You first have to find the very few that survived the extinction event. 99.9% never had a chance to evolve.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/extinction/dinosaurs-survive
If you’re extinct and you know it, clap your hands...
Dang!
Did you have to post an article about Hillary?
Now my day will be spent at the range working off the sexual thoughts...
Even earlier. There is mention of finding Giant’s bones in Homer’s Iliad.
Thanks Red Badger.
LOL! I was just thinking, what's up with the tiny arms. I mean, why even bother?
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