Tag: prehistoric animals

Before It Evolved into Twaddle…REPRINT

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From March 27, 2019

My wife and I like watching videos of prehistoric animals. Usually we can just tune out the Evolution just-so story that accompanies the video, if the visuals are cool enough.

So we settled down on Youtube to watch Morphed: Before They Were Bears.

Apart from the initial absurdity of declaring that life arose from non-living materials, purely by chance, it rained on de rocks and de rocks come alive, doo-dah, doo-dah, we were treated to unbearable nonsense about… bears. It seems that whenever prehistoric bears encountered some kind of environmental challenge, they wisely considered what they would need and then proceeded to evolve it.

Oh, boy! Whoever said there’s no quality control on Youtube wasn’t kidding!

So, ya see, the giant panda needed an opposable thumb so he could hold on to the bamboo while he was eating it, but the digits he already had were spoken for, so he just, like, went ahead and evolved one of his wrist bones into a kind of thumb… and what he was eating while waiting for his magical thumb to evolve, who knows? If it takes millions of years for revolutionary new body parts to evolve, how does the species last long enough to benefit by it? Or if it happens real fast, then how come no naturalist or farmer or zoo-keeper or pet owner has ever observed it?

This doesn’t even rise to the level of crapola. We couldn’t make it halfway through this video before we had to turn it off.

Darwinism wouldn’t last another ten days if there weren’t such a deep political investment in it by the Left.

Giant Ground Sloths on the Loose!

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Time to flush out my brain!

YouTube abounds with, er, “sightings” of extinct prehistoric animals… among them, the giant ground sloth. Several species of these populated North and South America. We don’t know why they went extinct, but we do know they’re not here anymore. Or do we?

I admit to a lifelong fascination with prehistoric creatures, and I would dearly love some of these goofy YouTube stories to be true. I can’t help reading unproved claims of giant sloths stepping into tar-pits, etc., according to witnesses who can’t possibly be traced. And maybe you wind up wondering, “Gee, was King Kong’s island for real?”

Well, there’s no quality control on the Internet, and anybody who knows how to do it  can put up a post on anything he or she might imagine.

And sometimes you need a little goofiness.

This Is One of My Favorites

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C.R. Knight - Uintatherium with Eohippus in the foreground

Behold the massive Uintatherium, brought to life in this painting by Charles R. Knight, the master painter of prehistoric life. As a bonus, he threw in a few Eohippus (“dawn horse” in the foreground.

And Lord Reesh got a fleeting glimpse of one in The Last Banquet.

Digging Up the Past to Understand Our Climate Future | Natural History Museum of Utah

Look at that skull, all knobs and fangs. They used to have a Uintatherium skull in the Rutgers Geology Museum. The skull alone was as big as a full-grown German shepherd. I could never walk past it without stopping to wonder at it. The whole animal was about the size of a car.

I never could figure out how it got by with such a tiny brain case. Maybe that didn’t matter much, back then. The animals that competed with it for food weren’t exactly College Bowl material.

I would be very happy to dream of Uintatherium tonight.

‘Mr. Nature: The Cat That Wasn’t a Cat’ (2019)

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Sure looks like a cat, though–doesn’t it?

Poor Hoplophoneus! All these years, an ancestor to the famous saber-toothed cat–only to be cast out of the cat fraternity altogether.

Mr. Nature: The Cat that Wasn’t a Cat

I am just told there’s another doctor appointment this morning and I have to hurry if I want anything to eat before 1 p.m. And then there’s the hospital this afternoon. So I’d better grab a bite to eat.

‘Good Grief! The Giant Baboon’ (2018)

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Oh, that’s just too big!

Baboons are pretty tough customers just as they are; but imagine if they were as big as full-grown human beings.

Good Grief! The Giant Baboon

I was sick yesterday, I’m playing hooky from physical therapy today–because the weather’s nice and I want to sit outside and write–and I’m tired–so I will leave it to the readers to generate wisecracks involving baboons, regular or king-sized.

Sail-Backs Galore

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The Golden Treasury of Natural History – Looky

Dimetrodons in The Golden Treasury of Natural History

Once upon a time there were all these weird large reptiles with sails on their backs. Dimetrodon is the best known, but there are several kinds of reptiles, unrelated, that carried “sails” on their backs.

But there was also this.

Platyhystrix

Platyhystrix wasn’t even a reptile, but an amphibian.

And the motif crops up again, in a big, big way!

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Spinosaurus was one of the largest predatory dinosaurs. Dig the sail! And the contemporary vegetarian dinosaur Ouranosaurus, also carried a nice high sail.

Why does this crazy feature crop up in so many unrelated prehistoric animals? Scientists don’t agree as to what the sail’s purpose might have been. The only use they’ve ruled out is… well, sailing. Heck, it might’ve had a dozen uses.

I can’t help but think God had a use for it. I don’t see it popping again and again into the fossil record as a random response to the environment.

And then there was the head of Diplocaulus, shaped very like a boomerang…

Diplocaulus is an extinct lepospondyl from the Paleozoic Era. Poster Print by Nobumichi Tamura/Stocktrek Images (32 x 24

 

Did Climbit Change Kill Off Giant Apes?

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Couldn’t they get the little apes, like the one in the picture, to pick their fruit for them?

Let’s educate ourselves by watching TV news!

NBC News has reported on Chinese research that claims that the world’s giant apes, ten feet tall, went extinct because of Climate Change that had a fatal result: they “couldn’t reach their favorite fruits” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/you-cant-make-this-up-nbc-news-claims/). Scientists know this creature as Gigantopithecus and say it went extinct some 300,000 years ago–again, due to Climate Change.

Whoa! Say what?? You mean cars, gas stoves, air conditioning, and toilet paper didn’t cause that Climbit Change disaster? Poor Gigantopithecus! If only they’d been smart enough to invent ladders!

Thousands and thousands of prehistoric species had to live with innumerable Climbit Change episodes, and many thousands of species, and whole groups of animals (like dinosaurs) have gone extinct without being pushed over the edge by us. Why, it’s enough to tempt you into believing climates change all the time, all throughout Earth’s history. And just maybe we can’t control it, no matter how much power is handed over to stupid and tyrannical governments.

(“But it must be true, I saw it on TV!”)

‘The Very Strange “Shovel-Tusked” Elephant’ (2018)

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Behold the Platybelodon, aka “the shovel-tusked elephant.” It wasn’t quite as large as a modern elephant, but still too hefty for your living room–although living rooms had not yet been invented, so that’s no problem. And those elongated jaws helped this animal to catch its food–gnats and fruit flies–on the wing.

The Very Strange ‘Shovel-Tusked’ Elephant

[Stop! Get this guy outta here, he’s crazy.]

Sorry about that–I needed a laugh.

Anyway, here’s a very cool prehistoric animal that doesn’t get much press; but you can find out all about it if you click the link above.

Really Scary Predators! Land Crocodiles

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The dinosaurs were long gone, it was the Age of Mammals… but these huge reptilian predators didn’t know that.

Mr. Nature here, with a bunch of mostly obscure prehistoric predators related to today’s alligators and crocodiles. The video will hit you with enough scientific names to have you talking to yourself, but at least it’s full of cool pictures. And all you need to know, really, is that “suchus”–which is part of most of those names–means “crocodile.”

I wonder when these monsters will turn up in Lintum Forest!

What I see here is not “evolution,” but rather God’s infinite creative power. We don’t know very much about Dentaneosuchus, et al,  but we do have some fossil evidence–enough to convince us that this would have been a very good animal to avoid. Their remains have been found in Europe, Africa, and South America.

Why aren’t they still here? The LORD has not given us an explanation. He has the entire universe at His disposal, So who knows, there might be some of these in places where we’ll never go.

Meanwhile, we can stand in awe of God’s handiwork.

Dino… Blood… Found?

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This 23-minute video is chock-full of numbing technical language–it’s here if you want it–but let me boil it down for you.

At stake here is a claim that actual dinosaur blood cells have been found. Scientists are divided between “Oh, that has to be wrong!” and “Um, er, excuse me, the phone is ringing!”

The problem is, we have some reputable scientists making this claim; and although just laughing them off or even punishing them has worked well in the past, it doesn’t work anymore.

Dreadnoughtus , named after a historic battleship, was a super-big dinosaur that lived in Argentina. What if we really had intact blood cells? Could we use it to grow a Dreadnoughtus, a la Jurassic Park? A lot of scientists are retreating to the sidelines until such time, they say, as technology catches up to our needs.

Can blood–or collagen, or other soft tissue–really survive for millions and millions of years, in the bones of long-vanished animals? Or is there something deeply wrong with that question? If it can’t, and yet there it is, maybe there’s something wrong with the imagined time scale.

God does like to challenge our minds, doesn’t He?