Tiny Bones Rewrite Texbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil

University South Wales ^ | 12-15-2006

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Darksheare]

Didn't New Zealand once have a large predatory ground bird that is now extinct?
Or am I thinking of someplace else?

[blam]

Moa Bird (New Zealand) (Probably ate all the mammals,lol)

[Doc Savage]

Rewritten like "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny?????"

[Darksheare]

That's the bird.
Thanks!
Yes, it probably ate all the mammals, then had no other food source, died out likely, joined politics probably.
*chuckle*

[editor-surveyor]

Inconvenient fact ping.

[trisham]

Inconvenient and interesting.

[avg_freeper]

Perhaps the mammal hitched a ride on a bird.

I wonder what size of mammal a swallow could carry?

[calex59]

I don't know if it was pedatory or not but,yes, they had a large, I believe flightless, bird that recently(within several centuries)went extinct.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, I was just reading about it on messybeast.com, but the site went down while I was reading.
*sigh*

If it was predatory, that would explain the missing mini mammals.

[caffe]

LOL, It's going to be interesting to see how they come up with another bogus theory to explain this. The problem is that it appears more fossils will be found....oh gee.what will they do if a real "human" is discovered?
Of course, true factual scientific facts never conflict with view of creation. Good catch!

[Creationist]

Sedimentary layers are best explained by a world wide flood around 4500 years ago.

They are a product of liquefaction and hydrological classification...

I find it interesting they thought the world seas were higher then present day... it is also interesting that it was after the age they give for dinosaurs living on the planet.

[metmom]

"This amazing find suggests that other mammals are waiting to be found there, ...

Ya don't think.

[Verginius Rufus]

Of the four orders of living reptiles, one survives only in New Zealand (the tuatara).

The other three are turtles, crocodilians, and snakes & lizards (one order).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Mammal told me there'd be days like this. :') The classics never wear out...

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[JCEccles]

Didn't New Zealand once have a large predatory ground bird that is now extinct?

Yeah. The Maoris ate 'em all and now there ain't no moa.

[Darksheare]

LOL!
Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning.

[csense]

Thanks for the ping

[RobbyS]

Suggesting how little we know.