Posted on 01/22/2009 2:45:42 AM PST by neverdem
The giant asteroid that crashed into earth 65 million years ago may not have
killed all the dinosaurs.
Meet Polar Dinosaur.
Scientists in Alaska are mining the permafrost along the Colville River for
well-preserved dinosaur bones that suggest dinosaurs were very adaptable
animals. These fossils are found in ancient permafrost beds, suggesting that dinosaurs adapted to cold temperatures.
Dinosaurs living far north of the equator show bulging eyes and brains,
which may be adaptation to low light. Far north dinosaurs like hadrosaurs had skulls filled with hundreds of teeth, perhaps to grind up ferns and horsetails that thrived in colder climates.
There may be something in the discovery that points is the desired direction. If it was ever in the story it was edited to save space. The way the story is written or published, it doesn't make any sense.
It wasn't permafrost at that time. They also find evidence of warm weather plants like ferns.
I’m with you ALL the way!
(I wonder if they have any idea how mortally stupid they reveal/prove themselves to be...)
In geologic terms it is.
Thanks for the ping!
Try this: they couldn't tread water!
3 million years is NOT a sudden extinction. A meteor should have wiped out whatever it was going to wipe out in a century or two. The Darwinists would have it that Man as Human isn’t 3 million years old. It might be “sudden” in a geologic sense but it is not sudden enough to admit of a meteor explanation for the extinction of a whole class of animal life. That explanation is going to have to be narrowed down in time a LOT.
The finding contravenes the idea that dinosaurs were already declining by this time....an idea which was ridiculous on its face. Thanks TXnMA. :')
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I think you may have missed the point about the dates. It is not saying they slowly died out over this period. Rather, the importance of the find is that there was an abundance of animals right up to the point of the Chicxulub impact and not a dwindling of the population preceding the impact.
Cryolophosaurus Ellioti fossil:Here is the femur, upper leg bone, of Cryolophosaurus elliot still trapped in the rock matrix.
The remains of the Cryolophosaurus were found in the Hanson Formation with the remains of a very large prosauropod (related to plateosaurids like the Plateosaurus and Lufengosaurus), a small pterosaur, a mammal-like reptile (a tritylodont, which is a type of synapsid about the size of a rat), and another unknown theropod. There were also fossilized tree trunks two meters away. The site is about 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level. This supports the idea that, even at high altitudes, early Jurassic Antarctica had forests populated by a diverse range of species, at least along the coast, even though Antarctica was closer to the equator and the world was considerably warmer than today, the climate was still cool temperate. Recent models of Jurassic air flow indicate that coastal areas probably never dropped much below freezing, although more extreme conditions existed inland. Cryolophosaurus was found about 650 kilometers (400 miles) from the South Pole but, at the time it lived, this was about 1000km or so farther north.
fossil tree
frozen sand dunes
Antarctic Ping!
Thanks Fred Nerks.
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