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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/25/2009 : 11:54:07
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And evidently, the Noahcian Gerbil was quite a busy, little fellow, 'cause he made a lot of them.
Signs of life: Mammal tracks from 190 million years ago found at Dinosaur National Monument
By MIKE STARK
Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.
The tracks are a rare find, mostly because they were left at a time when the area was a hostile, vast Sahara-like desert where towering sand dunes seldom preserved signs of animal life.
"It's just astonishing," Dan Chure, a paleontologist at the monument, said Thursday. "We were giggling like kids."
He and paleontologist George Engelmann of the University of Nebraska at Omaha spotted the tracks July 8 while scouring the area for fossils and other evidence from the early Jurassic period. Dinosaur National Monument, founded because of its rich and plentiful supply of dinosaur bones, straddles the Utah-Colorado border.
Most of the tracks are the size of a dime or smaller. A few include impressions of up to four toes. The mammals - perhaps the size of a rat - were among the few species that were able to survive between large sand dune fields where there was water, dinosaurs and a few plants, Chure said.
Because they were living in a forbidding desert environment, most animals probably came out at night, including the small mammals who left the tracks, Chure said. He said it's reasonable to assume the tracks were preserved by a layer of moisture that created a slight crust on the dune and kept the prints from blowing away.
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What nonsense!
After the Big, Fat Mammy-Jammin' Flood, you see, all of the continents were still stuck together. Well, it had been a long voyage and Noah's gerbil needed some exercise, so the Big N let him out for some recreation time. Now, rodents being what they are, the gerbil went looking for some jellyroll and that meant covering a lot of territory, considering the conditions of the times and the dearth of lady gerbils in the area. Of course, the ground was still a bit damp and sticky, so his desperate and horny dashing about was recorded in the sands and quickly fossilized when the first sand-storm came along and covered them up. Then, God divided the continents in order to help Noah's cargo find their ways home.
190 million years, my foot! They are 4,000 & change years old, max, so there!
See that, Young Earth Creation Apologists? I can do it too! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/25/2009 : 13:20:19 [Permalink]
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I'm sure glad we have you, Fil, to explain scientific discoveries in proper Biblical context. It would be a lot more becoming of the scientists, though, if they weren't so satanically curious and stopped looking at stuff so closely.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Naw, it was Noah's pet gerbil, made them tracks!
