Posted on 07/30/2019 7:28:40 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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A group of international researchers say they have uncovered possible evidence of a warmer climate in Alaska — dating back to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Dr. Tony Fiorillo of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, and his team are fresh back from a three-week, remote expedition to Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. During that time, Fiorillo says the researchers discovered what appeared to be a crayfish burrow.
How do crayfish fit in with dinosaurs? We wondered that too.
"They lived with the dinosaurs," Fiorillo explained. "As you can imagine, in Anchorage, there aren't many crayfish near us. That's a paleoclimate indicator because it means it was warmer back then because the closest crayfish to us is probably southern Canada. So, to be up there at that time, the world must have been a little warmer."
According to an article on the University of Alaska's website, the dinosaur's presence in the state dates back 70 million years.
Fiorillo's work on this latest expedition was inspired by his trip to the Alaska Peninsula in 2010 — in which he found the first record of a dinosaur in an Alaska national park.
"It was time to go back to Aniakchak and see what we might have missed from those early expeditions, and it turned out we missed a lot," Fiorillo said.
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Alaska Ping.
Alaska was not where it is now during the time of the dinosaurs.
Golly gee. Dinos in a warm climate. Did they just figure that out?
70 million years ago Alaska could have been substantially further south.
But, right now Alaska and the North American Plate is moving south and the Pacific Plate is moving north.
***A group of international researchers say they have uncovered possible evidence of a warmer climate in Alaska — dating back to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. ***
Well,when you consider that fifty years ago scientists found that the Sahara Desert was once at the South Pole, no doubt Alaska was elsewhere than where it is now.
Actually... The earth has been ice free for most of it’s 4.5+ billion years and when the dinosaurs roamed it... There was no ice. Animals have survived no-ice periods and if all the ice on earth today were to melt, we would survive it. Climate alarmism is essentially just another ‘woe the apocalypse’ cult.
Best estimates are that 105 billion humans have lived and died... Almost all of them have known of or been taught of an ‘end of earth’ scenario... The end of earth will occur when we are hit by a comet or the sun expands... Other than that... It’ll be here for life to thrive on.
Dinosaurs in ancient Alaska? Why is that a big deal?
They’ve discovered dinosaurs in Antarctica. There was a long period of time when there was little or no ice on the planet and also no humans to bring about climate change.
B.S. Lysenko science.
Well, no SUVs so..........
Great dinosaurs in Alberta, Canada region so why not in nearby Alaska? Dinosaurs had powerful legs and could travel very far as long as there was adequate food along the way.
a warmer climate IS a basic bit of info to ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about dinosaurs - like six year old with a ‘big lettered word book’ on dinosaurs
Better to be living in one of Earth's warm periods than at the peak of one of its Ice Ages.
This is my suspicion also.
“Almost all of them have known of or been taught of an ‘end of earth’ scenario... “
Interesting thought, and quite probable.
My belief is yes, the Earth will come to an end, ending all life. But this will likely not happen until millions, if not billions of years after my death and man will not be the cause. It will be a force greater than man, such as God or nature.
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