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Dinosaur fossils suggest speedy extinction - Arctic find challenges the idea that the massive...
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| 19 January 2009
| Matt Kaplan
Posted on 01/22/2009 2:45:42 AM PST by neverdem
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To: Fred Nerks
"There were also fossilized tree trunks two meters away." Horizontally or vertically?
To quote Flip Wilson: "It do make a diff'rence!" '-)
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01/24/2009 12:09:50 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: TXnMA
“...Geologists have discovered the remains of three ancient deciduous Antarctic forests, complete with fossils of fallen leaves scattered around the tree trunks.
The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.
Some stumps were even poking through the snowfield in the Beardmore Glacier area, said U.S. geologist Professor Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
“These were not scrubby little things,” Miller said. “These were big trees.”
Some are estimated to be as tall as 24.6 meters, based on their trunk diameter...”
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1239175.htm
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posted on
01/24/2009 2:11:30 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
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posted on
01/24/2009 3:19:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Ron Jeremy
A picture of Victoria Vetri mixing with dinosaurs would be easier on the eyes. :-))
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posted on
01/27/2009 12:17:35 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
To: arthurus
65-68 million years ago is not sudden
They didn't say the extinction took place over 3 million years. They said the fossil beds were dated at between 65 and 68 millions years ago.
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01/27/2009 12:21:43 PM PST
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aruanan
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