Posted on 01/13/2006 12:34:56 PM PST by microgood
I think the shows on the Science and Discovery Channel that depict how dinsaurs lived are bogus. They show how these dinosaurs looked ( as far as color of skin and eyes ) and interacted with each other and even how they sounded and pass it off as fact. I did not know all that was available from a petrified bone.
kid could have just died and treated as carrion, too. Still happens.
Are you sure that wasn't that Disney movie?
Site: Buxton Limeworks, Taung, South Africa (1)
Discovered By: M. de Bruyn 1924 (1)
Estimated Age of Fossil: 2.3 mya * determined by Faunal & geomorphological data (1, 4, 5)
Species Name: Australopithecus africanus (1, 3, 7, 8)
Gender: Unknown (1)
Cranial Capacity: 405 (440 as adult) cc (1, 3)
Information: First early hominid fossil found in Africa (7, 8)
Interpretation: Juvenile (3 years old based on deciduous teeth, first permanent molars) (1, 3, 4, 7)
Bipedal hominid (based on position of foramen magnum, brain endocast, small canines) (1, 3, 4, 7)
Killed possibly by bird of prey (based on fractures and puncture marks on skull) (1, 10)
See original source for notes:
http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=27
Isn't calling a hominid a human a bit of a stretch?
A large eagle could still kill a 3 1/2 year old child out in the open so this is hardly news.
"A large eagle could still kill a 3 1/2 year old child out in the open so this is hardly news."
Running out of good topics for a Phd diseration, maybe?
Another one of those scenarios generated from a toe bone found in some remote spot: this individual ate apples for breakfast and probably was covered by 8 muskrat furs while sleeping...
Large returns of conjecture from small investment of fact...
Why "eagle"? Why not a large flying raptor the name of which we may not even yet know?
You're right, they pass it off as science when in fact it's little more than a speculative fictionalization based on scant evidence. T-rex walked or ran with its body and tail held horizontally? OK, that makes sense. But as to its color, how it sounded or smelled, or exactly what type of social relations it had, well they're extrapolating an awful lot from very little.
Perfect example.
I once read that Lloyds of London hsd insured a man against having an eagle drop a tortoise on his head. This is how the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus is supposed to have died. I thought that this was just a ridiculous impossible event. But recently I heard that some eagles do in fact carry tortoises up into the air and drop them on rocks to break their shells.
"it's like if I were to tell you that hippos are far more dangerous than crocodiles or lions, or that elephants killing people and lions is far more common than you think, you might be surprised."
Not surprised, I agree. I think it is funny how they condemn Christians/Jews for our faith in creation yet their view is little more than faith itself. Nobody knows exactly what anything was like before recorded history, say prior to about 10,000 BC. It is all supposition.
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