There are a lot of fossilized horse teeth. Those, broken manatee ribs and vertebrae, shark and ray teeth seem to be the most common.
Did it look like this:
Posted on 01/08/2012 3:17:46 PM PST by Iron Munro
She said it is important to maintain warm-water coastal springs, the flow of which tends to diminish with nearby groundwater pumping for human consumption.
Who is supposed to maintain the temp of the coastal springs?
Maybe we have found the Ideal Normal Temperature of the Planet. Manatee Temp.
Spoken like a true tourist. Here's hoping that every single Manatee in the state freezes into a solid block of ice and floats back into the Caribbean - where they invaded us from.
Some of us who live in Florida have watched these things (a non-native exotic species) used as an excuse to destroy people's property rights and kill segments of many industries like boating, fishing, tourism etc.
Not bad, a little fattier than Condor and Bald Eagle.
About 3 miles from my house. Perhaps I should drive over and throw them an electric blanket.
More power plants would help people and animals alike ... manatees love the warm water outflow, manatees also like to eat nasty stuff like water hyacinth, tourist love manatees, and econuts couldn't logically object, not that logic is important to them anyway. Of course, the outflow areas could be designed so as to maximize the area of quality aquatic vegetation so the animals could have enough grazing for sustained cold snaps; this in turn would help water birds and fish and bring in more tourists for birdwatching and fishing, which will help local small businesses and even tax hungry politicians. The positive PR helps the power industry and makes liberals stutter when they try to stop coal and nuclear power. Win, win.
Probably feels pretty warm when the ocean temp. is closer to 60°.
I LOLed so loud that the catz freaked out and ran from the room.
Reminds me of when my (recently divorced) first ex-wife called me and said the power pole was on fire, what should she DO????
I told her to put a water hose on it, and call 911.
She hung up on me. She didn't use the water hose, she did call 911, and I paid for 15 more years.
/johnny
This is Hugh.
I'll take 105F. Nukes sound like a good solution.
One of the few benefits coming from moving back into society is the running water and the hot water. Coffee, I could get in the wilderness. Flour, salt, ammo.. all of that was available. I could even get.... well. I had already done the celibate thing by then.
But hot running water? Hoo-yah. That's some fine living.
/johnny
Having gone diving in 72 degree water it does not feel warm. Especially when the air temp is less than 85.
Its kinda cool to see deer tracks in the rock about 90 feet below the grounds surface.
Fewer but tougher Manatees.
I’ve done some diving in FL springs, but not without a full wetsuit.
I meant that 72 degrees would probably feel warm to a manatee on a winters day ...
Found some fossils one time in a spring that sort of looked like teeth, but have no idea what kind of critter they might have come from. Any idea?
Got pix?
/johnny
You might kill it, but don't try to negotiate with it.
/johnny
What does a manatee take for a cold, I wonder?
I’m pretty happy that things like the Megalodon got wiped out by something or other.
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