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35 pages of results. 101. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as due to the break up of a large asteroid causing a shower of meteorites; evidence of impacts possibly being two craters in Libya and groups in Kara and in the Ukraine. Rezanov considers this catastrophe, although probably the largest in the history of the Earth, can have done little more than accelerate the ongoing process of extinction of the dinosaurs. Rezanov's view of catastrophes' is more comprehensive than that of some. He includes fluctuations and reversals of Earth's magnetic field, not only in respect of its protective value against destructive cosmic radiation, but also regarding the direct effects of the field upon living organisms. However, he again stresses the lack of any sudden change and resorts ...
102. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... out to contain the biggest fossil find in North America! On the shores of the Bay of Fundy, north of Maine, Paul E.Olsen and Neil H.Shubin have made a quite remarkable find. Evidently there was a great profusion of bones, "sticking out all over the place", and the collection included those of dinosaurs, crocodiles, lizards, sharks and primitive fish, as well as those of the Trilethodonts, the reptiles closest on the evolutionary scale to mammals. They date from 200 million years ago, or approximately at the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods. "The scientists said the new findings point to a catastrophic extinction right at the ...
103. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... spoke of the difference in outlook between US and UK astronomers: Americans worry about asteroids, British about cometary interaction. Robert Dunlap: Mass Extinctions'. Dunlap makes documentaries. He had a dream that Earth was struck by a large object and started reading about Velikovsky. He showed the first few minutes of his documentaries on the extinctions of dinosaurs. This was highly unsatisfactory because we got the lead-in but no development or conclusions. The films showed the correlation between impact craters and mass extinctions; there was a very tempting one about dinosaur bones in Alaska. All his evidence suggests either the Earth was spinning in a different direction at one time, with what is now North and ...
104. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more information in its brain than in its genes." Or "The R-complex [an entity of which more anon] is functioning in the dreams of humans; the dragons can be heard, hissing and rasping, and the dinosaurs thunder still." Sagan is much given to wonder as well as to purple passages. He wonders whether "the ritual aspects of many psychotic illnesses" and "the frequent ritualistic behaviour in young children" (what young children has he been watching?) represent a failure of neocortical control. And noting that australopithecines were only three-and-a-half ...
105. Thoth Vol V, No 1: Jan 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a study could likely shed light on whether fission or fusion took place, when it took place, and the amount of fissioning/fusioning that occurred. It could also eliminate possibilities such as the radiation being natural, or even modern contamination events (such as surreptitious disposal or dispersal of radioactive waste). For example, Amy mentioned radioactive dinosaur bones and wondered what caused that. Knowing that the radionuclide is uranium strongly suggests that the radioactivity is natural. Determining the isotopic ratio of U235/U238 would confirm it, and a careful analysis of decay products associated with the uranium would clinch it with near absolute certainty. There is also a mechanism that is known .. . ...
106. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Is this an allusion to Saturn's ring(s )? If not, what was it? Finally (at least as far as this section is concerned), I would like to correct something else that Cardona misunderstood. When I mentioned that "Alvarez's meteor...[left] the mammals intact without a trace of the nasty dinosaurs who had kept us scurrying on the night-time forest floor," [45] I never intended to suggest that humans were around at that time! I haphazardly used the term "us" to connote our remote, common biological ancestors with the rest of the primate family. 2. YHWH [Editor's note: This second part of ...
107. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the release? Impacts, volcanism or climate change? Evidence for a large impact at the time of the earlier Devonian extinction has been found in the form of shocked grains of quartz in Moroccan rocks, but no impact site has been identified. Moving on to the Cretaceous catastrophe, a site in Alaska has produced a massive amount of Ceratopsid dinosaurs, indicating that they roamed in large herds, like caribou, and died together in a catastrophe. Still more recently, at only 55 Myrs. at the end of the Palaeocene, there was a dramatic shift in carbon isotope ratios and a steep rise in water temperature. The blame falls once again on those methane hydrates, but ...
108. On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles [Journals] [Aeon]
... to F.C . Hibben) of mammoths roamed Siberia and Alaska, large animals the size of which can be found today only in tropical regions, or in those areas where the supply of fodder is guaranteed all the year round. It's against common sense that precisely during the ice age, one of the largest zoological communities since the dinosaurs existed in those very areas which are today reputed, due to their extreme climatic conditions, as the most hostile on Earth. With the mammoths there were dozens other animal species, the majority of which are extinct today. Of these species we have a great number of skeletons, several complete animals that have been perfectly preserved in the ...
109. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... remains of at least 8 genera of ground sloths, some of which reached the size of elephants, have been found in Brazil and details fit descriptions of Mapinguari. However, more extreme descriptions, such as it being one-eyed, having a mouth in its belly and devouring the head of victims, seem distinctly mythological. Macmillan's illustrated encyclopaedia of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, p. 261 Chalicotheres were huge browsing creatures, related to the hoofed animals, but exceptional in that they had large claws instead of hooves. They flourished in the Miocene period, up to 5 Myrs ago, but vanished along with an enormous range of huge mammals before the Ice Ages. However, decorations on ...
110. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Italy 2 Myr old tree trunks were unearthed. Relatives of trees which do not grow in Italy today, they were upright, though listing, and thought to have been buried in clay during an ancient earthquake. They looked, felt, and even smelled like living trees'. In Mongolia's Gobi Desert is one of the richest assemblages of dinosaurs ever found. They must have been buried soon after death and the rock suggests burial could have been due to violent sandstorms. Although supposedly 80 Myrs old, Freshly exposed skeletons sometimes look more like the recent remains of a carcass'. The Gobi, even in the Cretaceous, was supposed to have been dry yet the remains of ...
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