Ancient insects find shows India wasn't isolated 50mn yrs ago

[no_name]

I would get it if it were something an elephant sized animal (and a bunch of them).

LMAO yeah an elephant sized specimen would be nice

 

[sasuke]

lolzzz anything that proves you aryan right lolzz

anyway good luck

What does that have to do with this topic? We are seeing how some people who claim to be aryans are going down the drain!


Back to topic .... If the movement of plates are to be believed .... I thought Indian subcontinent was part of African techtonic plate before it collided with the eurasian plate

 

[Chogy]

I AM a Jurassic Park fan! The science is weak, though. But I think there is a distinct possibility that we might see mammoth or mastodon in our lifetime, reconstructed from frozen DNA and implanted in a modern, female elephant.

Bugs: I have seen bugs splatter on the windscreen of my aircraft at 5000+ meters, in jet-streams that flow at 100 knots. I'm not sure if they are frozen and dead, or maybe in some sort of hibernation, but they are up there.

There are several valid mechanisms for insects to travel thousands of kilometers over water, usually on debris from storms. Entire palm trees with a large number of insects can travel on ocean currents, and over a million years, a LOT of such trees would make landfall on a drifting India. They would find a land mass primed for colonization.

 

[CardSharp]

I AM a Jurassic Park fan! The science is weak, though. But I think there is a distinct possibility that we might see mammoth or mastodon in our lifetime, reconstructed from frozen DNA and implanted in a modern, female elephant.

Bugs: I have seen bugs splatter on the windscreen of my aircraft at 5000+ meters, in jet-streams that flow at 100 knots. I'm not sure if they are frozen and dead, or maybe in some sort of hibernation, but they are up there.

There are several valid mechanisms for insects to travel thousands of kilometers over water, usually on debris from storms. Entire palm trees with a large number of insects can travel on ocean currents, and over a million years, a LOT of such trees would make landfall on a drifting India. They would find a land mass primed for colonization.

They have a partial neanderthal genome sequenced but it will years before it will be complete enough and our technology advance enough to pull off a neaderthal or mastadon clone.

 

[Chogy]

They have a partial neanderthal genome sequenced but it will years before it will be complete enough and our technology advance enough to pull off a neaderthal or mastadon clone.

I agree on Neanderthal, but the frozen mammoths in Siberia and Alaska have DNA that is much more intact. I remain hopeful. I think the Japanese are pursuing it right now.

Woolly Mammoth Resurrection, "Jurassic Park" Planned

 

[CardSharp]

I agree on Neanderthal, but the frozen mammoths in Siberia and Alaska have DNA that is much more intact. I remain hopeful. I think the Japanese are pursuing it right now.

Woolly Mammoth Resurrection, "Jurassic Park" Planned

An interesting fact. A banquet was once held in St. Petersberg for some explorers and the main course of evening was Mammoth steaks!

It turns out that they found a completely frozen and intact mammoth so decided to carve it up and throw it on the barby.

 

[Chogy]

A bit gamy tasting? I wonder...

I had also heard that a lot of these frozen carcasses were found in the past by sled dogs. They'd be jamming along, and all of a sudden, come to a halt because there's a yummy mammoth leg sticking out of the ice that they could chow on.

There were a lot of these guys, apparently. You can buy mammoth tusks and sections for knife grips and scrimshaw (off eBay, for example) for less than elephant ivory, which is highly regulated. Men make a living looking for fossil ivory in likely areas.

IIRC, they last died out on an island about 7,000 years ago. A blink of a geologic eye. What a shame.

 

[CardSharp]

A bit gamy tasting? I wonder...

I had also heard that a lot of these frozen carcasses were found in the past by sled dogs. They'd be jamming along, and all of a sudden, come to a halt because there's a yummy mammoth leg sticking out of the ice that they could chow on.

There were a lot of these guys, apparently. You can buy mammoth tusks and sections for knife grips and scrimshaw (off eBay, for example) for less than elephant ivory, which is highly regulated. Men make a living looking for fossil ivory in likely areas.

IIRC, they last died out on an island about 7,000 years ago. A blink of a geologic eye. What a shame.

It's tantalizing isn't it. Just to think, if not for fate and a few thousand years, we could have been walking along side animals that are as mysterious to us as the dinosaurs are.

and I'll do you one better on the 7,000 year date. The last of mammoth died out only in 1700 BC on Wrangel Island , within recorded history!

 

[no_name]

Lol should have formaldehyde it.
God knows how many more have been eaten by local hunters through the ages.

 

[no_name]

and I'll do you one better on the 7,000 year date. The last of mammoth died out only in 1700 BC on Wrangel Island , within recorded history!

Sometimes I wonder if our forefathers were even seeing the same animals as we are now.

Plenty of classic chinese words for animals that were now not to be found. Anyone remembers those stone maya carvings of strange creatures?

 

[jayron]

It's tantalizing isn't it. Just to think, if not for fate and a few thousand years, we could have been walking along side animals that are as mysterious to us as the dinosaurs are.

and I'll do you one better on the 7,000 year date. The last of mammoth died out only in 1700 BC on Wrangel Island , within recorded history!

One kind of pre historic looking,sounding animal was the elephant bird that lived in Madagascar. It existed till the 17th century!

Elephant bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CardSharp]

One kind of pre historic looking,sounding animal was the elephant bird that lived in Madagascar. It existed till the 17th century!

Elephant bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was just about to post about Madagascar! but I didn't know how I was going to working into a mammoth theme. We are simpatico

 

[no_name]

One kind of pre historic looking,sounding animal was the elephant bird that lived in Madagascar. It existed till the 17th century!

Elephant bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also the dodo that was hunt to extinction, and Moa, and Haast's eagle.

 

[CardSharp]

Also the dodo that was hunt to extinction, and Moa, and Haast's eagle.

Eagles big enough to eat your kids. Sweet!

 

[no_name]

They hunt Moas, which were big enough to eat your kid, if it was a predatory bird.