[byteback]

I bet Gore knows the answer.

[Mister Baredog]

Fly fossil found in Antarctica

SERIESLY HUGH NEWS

[ChadGore]

Gore is a inventet fosils.

[GreenHornet]

Okay, who left the screen door to Antarctica open?

[Larry Lucido]

and --help explain global changes in today's climate

The fly was found sitting in a tiny SUV.

[ALS]

[Mike Darancette]

They could also have been part of the animal life on a mega-continent called Gondwana that later split up and formed Antarctica, South America, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa...

Later in the article they talked of a warming period 15 mya which is confusing because Gondwana ceased to exist about 95 mya when splitting off of Austrailia .

[HalfFull]

If a warm spell in Antarctica allowed the fly to live there, what caused the temperatures to rise?

Biblically, a better question is "what caused the temperatures in Antarctica to fall?"

[martin_fierro]

The little bugger was wearing lots and lots of polyester.

[Normal4me]

Anyone else here think this guy could be useful in Iraq? ;-)

[b4its2late]

Shoo fly, don't bother me!

[William Tell]

Much of the science explaining continental drift has developed since I was in school so I have little expertise.

However, if the continents drift relative to each other, then they must certainly drift relative to the axis of rotation of the earth. This means that the "seasons" which are experienced can vary on any given continent independently of the average temperature of the earth.

The more surprising result might be if it was determined that there had never been flies on a particular continent. I suppose that the 15 mya time frame suggests that Antartica was located at the south pole roughly where it is now.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

You mean Gore left his fly open.

[LiteKeeper]

I'll bet God knows the answer!

[hosepipe]

1(one) Fly......
I don't suppose its possible wind currents swept the fly up to higher zones from somewhere else and deposited it there where it immedialtely froze NAH!... Heck they find spiders way high in the air colunm....regularly.. to be deposited in other CONTINENTS... why not flys...

finding the fly was dumb luck..?
Why not...

[festus]

How do we know the fossil didn't come from mars like that rock they found a year or so back ? Maybe this is proof of extraterrestial life !!!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

Seriously though the line :

It's just a tiny fossil of a fly that scientists found some 300 miles from the South Pole. But this fossil will help them: --figure out what life was like millions of years ago in ancient Antarctica and --help explain global changes in today's climate

Says it all.

Did anyone ever watch that old game show called liars club ? This is somehow related..........

The only fact will be they found a fly fossil in antartica.

But what will be taught as fact is all manner of extrapolation of personal views and agendas by "scientists" or at least by "scientists that are smart enough to only say the approved truth" the other kind don't count............

Sigh.....

[COBOL2Java]

[mewzilla]

I can just hear the fly fossil now: Help me, help me!!!

[SunkenCiv]

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