I’m getting antsy for Obann, and I want to flush the day’s nooze out of my brain… so let’s join Mr. Nature on a prehistoric safari.
Hi, Mr. Nature here–and the video is in Hindi, so I have no idea what the narrator is saying; but I know a Deinotherium when I see one. Well, okay, there are no more Deinotheriums, only pictures and video recreations.
These are related to the elephants we know and love today, and lived in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Some of them were considerably bigger than modern elephants. Plus it looks like their tusks are on backwards. Deinotherium’s tusks were attached to the lower jaw instead of coming out of the upper, like an elephant’s.
We do not know how this animal used its tusks. Scraping bark off trees? Maybe. They look so much like elephants that the two must have had a lot in common. Except for those tusks. The more you look at them, the more puzzling it gets. What good did their tusks do them, down there?
But God the Designer doesn’t make mistakes, and doesn’t create living things that don’t work. However those tusks functioned, we can be sure they served the animal well.
The variety in creation is staggering. Perhaps in the deep past, conditions existed which made the Deinotherium’s tusks very useful.
Interesting creature!
Elephants once roamed America like the buffalo. How do they get so big and strong only eating vegetation?
They sneak burgers on the sly.
If they were here before the Flood, it may be that the vegetation was more nutritious. We simp,y have no way of knowing.
Well, elephants are still here, still big, and still vegetarian. How can they be so big. Genetics–and they eat an awful lot of food.