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300 million-year-old fossil skeleton in Utah could be the first of its kind
CNN ^
| November 5, 2021
| By Sherry Liang
Posted on 11/05/2021 11:11:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its kind, researchers say.
© Adam Marsh/National Park Service The fossil discovery at Canyonlands National Park was a rare intact skeleton.
The exact species and classification have yet to be determined, but the fossil is a tetrapod -- meaning animal with four legs -- and could be an early ancestor of either reptiles or mammals. Paleontologists have determined the fossil could be anywhere from 295 million to 305 million years old, between the Pennsylvanian and the Permian geologic time periods.
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TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: canyonlands; dinosaurs; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; fredwaring; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; pennsylvanian; permian; tetrapod; utah
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To: Red Badger
"Who are you calling a tetrapod?"
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:15:38 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
To: Red Badger
could be an early ancestor of either reptiles or mammals
or it could be an early bird, or snake ancestor, or even an early Democrat. What the heck do we know from a rock. Even the 300,000 year age is a total WAG from some other fossils, seashells, in the area. They have a big book of all kinds of seashells and date the fossil from the seashells found in the area.
The seashells have an assumed age from the idea of how many mutations must have occurred to make them look different than other sea shells.
That assumption goes all the way back to the first ideas about mutations and has never changed. Rock radioactive dating is selectively done to reinforce that original dating.
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:17:00 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:18:49 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Red Badger
It looks like it was carrying some sort of ruler.
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:20:50 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Red Badger. Just once I'd like to see something dug up from the Pennsylvanian period by an paleontologist named Fred Waring.
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:22:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
It appears to be a crocodile.
A crocodile in a rock.
A Crocodile Rock!............................
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:22:27 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
In a blender?................
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:23:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
As long as he’s a credit to his gender.
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:24:35 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Red Badger
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics..............
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:33:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
It might be odd to hear, “an ancestor of EITHER reptiles of mammals.” But birds, dinosaurs, and all living reptiles come from one side of a family tree, whereas mammals come from the other side. So the new convention is to regard land-reproducing ancestors of mammals as proto-mammals, not reptiles, although they fit the older definition of the latter.
Of course, this is all rot, since such “cladistics” (grouping animals solely with regard to their family tree) require naming all birds, “reptiles” and either calling all land vertebrates, “fish” or deciding that sharks, rays, coelecanths, lungfish, etc., aren’t really “fish” at all.
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:33:52 AM PDT
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dangus
To: Red Badger
It’s an old Geometry teacher, who went down with his ruler measuring his junk.
To: Red Badger
At first I thought it might be Mitt, but then I saw there was a spine.....
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11/05/2021 11:38:47 AM PDT
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G Larry
("Racism" is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
To: Red Badger
At first I thought it might be Mitt, but then I saw there was a spine.....
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:38:47 AM PDT
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G Larry
("Racism" is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
To: Red Badger
And just how do you know it’s 300 million years old??
Did it have a tag saying it was made in the year 300,002,021???
All you know is that you found a bone in the ground,
No More....
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:41:17 AM PDT
by
Pez149
(Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
To: Pez149
Correction*
The year 300,000,000
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:43:20 AM PDT
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Pez149
(Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/05/2021 11:43:58 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
To: wbarmy
If it voted last year, it’s definitely a democrat....
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posted on
11/05/2021 12:27:38 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Red Badger
An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its kind, researchers say. Poor thing had no momma or daddy? That's sad.
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posted on
11/05/2021 1:06:49 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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