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EAT your heart out, Noah. A flood of biblical proportions filled the present-day Mediterranean Sea in a matter of months. At its peak the mega-flood caused the sea's level to rise by over 10 metres per day.

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I heard this name last night from Joseph Campbell in his lecture series , Mythos I . Campbell calls him " the founder of the science of anthropolgy " . I confess that I had never heard of him before , so i looked him up . A link is in first reply .

I am curious about the origins of Mammals. . The first true mammals appeared in the Triassic Period. Were these mammal like reptiles? Then there are the three types that are with us today monotremes (egg layers - guess they would be the oldest and closest to reptiles? Then the marsupials out side of the possum all others live in Australia? Then finally the placentals which became the majority of mammals from which primates & humans appear. They appeared in the paleocene period.. did mammal development parallel reptile to dinosaur development ?(small to large).
Think how weird if hominids developed from marsupials.

WASHINGTON – Newly described dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists better understand the early development of these ancient creatures. The 6-to-12 foot-long, meat-eating creature, Tawa hallae, is described in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

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EAT your heart out, Noah. A flood of biblical proportions filled the present-day Mediterranean Sea in a matter of months. At its peak the mega-flood caused the sea's level to rise by over 10 metres per day.

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Have Paleontogists figured out what range of colors dinasours were? or might be) once over 12 feet they were not going to hide in the trees or brush to maybe these were colorful?
the little quick guys they might need to blend in. Or the suoer large herbivores. they could not hide. i bought the carnegie dinasur collection for my son whemn he was a kid. They were all diffrent shades of green but I always wondered why not reds, blacks yellow? Check out the face of a wild turkey and the intensity of the colors on it. sky blue surounded by a bright yellow with a streak of red. they still are ugly as heck though.

I cannot remember what post triggered this but I read something about the Sahara dessert. (maybe where those fossils were found. So I decided to do some basic research. The Sahara is about the same size as the United States. My perception of sand dunes forever changing in the winds is not quite correct Most of the Sahara consists of rock. Sand dunes make up a small area. During the last ice age the Sahara was wetter. Archeologists have found rock art, artifacts, bone harpoons, shells they also found bones of buffalo, antelopes, elephant, giraffes, and warthogs, as well as aquatic remains of fish, crocodiles. I guess there must have been lakes or swamps.
There was an urban culture, the Garamantes. They tunneled far into the mountains to tap “fossil water (not quite sure of what this is) The Garamantes became strong and conquored their neighbors taking slaves. Putting many to work extending the tunnels. I wonder if the ever had to balance water versus number of people? Both the Greeks and Romans knew of them. traded with them. Although regarded as uncivilized. Archeologist uncovered a roman bath house near the capitol of Garama.
I also though this little tidbit was interesting the highest point in the Sahara is a volcano measuring which is 11,204 feet i had friends tell me aboutthe beauty of the negev with it mountains, sands & elliot, tourist joint, but reading about the sahara made me want to go watch Lawrence of Arabia to see those vista shots.

Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city.

Italy's culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports.

Among the ruins visible on the search engine's free mapping service are the town's statues, temples and theatres.

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These crocodiles of the Cretaceous were the size of T-Rex and could gallop on the land. Today, in Australia, salt water crocodiles, though much smaller than their prehistoric ancestors, also are able to gallop on land. These masterpieces of evolution are immune to almost all diseases and have perhaps one of the most sophisticated cardiovascular and pulmonary systems in the world.

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Bone fragments found in the Tomb of King Muryeong have been attributed to the king or his queen 38 years after it was excavated in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province. The tomb is that of King Muryeong, who ruled the Baekje Kingdom from 501 to 523, and his wife.

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