Re: Homo erectus, city dweller and sailor

On Sep 9, 11:24 am, David Johnson <trolleyfan_spamf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
veritas <khogan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:1189318487.527431.265380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

[snip]

Doug, the "dinosaurs they named killed off at the end of the
Cretaceous period were not even real dinosaurs. Look them up. How can
you say that the majority were not gone at the Permo Triassic
extinction 248 million years ago?

You mean, _besides_ the fact that dinosaurs won't even _evolve_ for
another twenty million years?

Not _all_ big ancient animals are dinosaurs.

90% of the dinosaurs, and 60% of marine life died.

Actually, what died "90%" wasn't dinosaurs, but the therapsids -
otherwise known as "the mammal-like reptiles." No relation to dinosaurs.
_Us_, yes, but not dinosaurs.

Most all of the rest in the Late Triassic extinction
208 million years ago. Most all of the early dinosaur families died
out then.

Yep, that just leaves the most of the dinosaur families which hadn't
evolved yet. And the Late Triassic extinction wasn't a patch on the
Cretascous - to say nothing of the Permian one!

The Cretaceous period, 144 million to 65 million years ago
was when mammals were beginning to develop.

"The first mammal may never be known, but the Genus Morganucodon and in
particular Morganucodon watsoni, a 2-3 cm (1 inch) long weasel-like
animal whose fossils were first found in caves in Wales and around
Bristol (UK), but later unearthed in China, India , North America, South
Africa and Western Europe is a possible contender. It is believed to be
between 200 MYA and 210 MYA. However Gondwanadon tapani reported from
India on the basis of a single tooth in 1994 may be an earlier contender
for the title, with a claimed date of 225 MYA."

So, wrong again.

Name the dinosaurs that
were wiped out in the Cretaceous extinction 65 million years ago.

Tricerotops, T-Rex, Pachycephalosaurus, a dozen odd species of hadrosaurs
and duckbills - heck, even a few sauropods, in spite of the fact _their_
heyday was the Jurassic.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/cretaceo...
c.shtml

The
side bars always say, they weren't really dinosaurs, more like
lizards.

Whose sidebars? None _I've_ ever seen. And T-Rex makes an _awfully_ big
lizard...

The Mesozic Era was like this: 248 million years long and
started out with a massive extinction. First was the Triassic era
from 248 to 206 million years ago. 213 million years ago an extinction
occurred. 208 million years ago a late Triassic extinction occurred
that wiped out 35% of the animals on the planet, including most of the
early families of dinosaurs. Next came the Jurassic era from 206
million years ago to 144 million years ago. The Jurassic era had
extinctions at 190 million, 160 million, and 144 million at the very
end. Last came the Cretaceous period: 144 million to 65 million years
ago. There were three extintions in that period, 120 million years
ago, 82 million years ago, and last 65 million years ago, the end of
the Mesozic Era. So at 65 million years ago there were literally no
dinosaurs to wipe out, they were long gone.

Really? I found dozens without even trying hard. Big ones too.

Maybe this will help:

Main Entry: lit·er·al·ly
Variant(s): /'li-t&-r&-lE, 'li-tr&-lE, 'li-t&r-lE/
Function: adverb
1 : in a literal sense or manner : ACTUALLY <took the remark literally>
<was literally insane>
2 : in effect : VIRTUALLY <will literally turn the world upside down to
combat cruelty or injustice -- Norman Cousins>
usage Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it
has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure
hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts
where no additional emphasis is necessary.

I would like to see some names,

Look above.

as any I saw were also referred to as really lizards.

Then - as I said in my first post to you - stop looking there, because
what you're looking at is bull***.

Guys, if his archeology is as bad as his paleoentology, we may want to
stop using him as an acurate source...at least, without a _lot_ of backup
research...

David

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You are right to a point, most all of the ones you named were gone in
the early part, 90-80 million years ago but the T-Rex did show up to
85-65 million. My site is Enchanted Learning Software. It is
accurate, and most of the dinosaurs were gone by 65 million years
ago. Take a look, it is accurate, I must not have seen the T-Rex.
Regards, Ken
--
"Truth does not give a damn what we conceive. We survive or perish
according to our ability to discern the truth correctly and act upon
it." - Ken www.veritasnovel.com

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