a plant will come out of it that will make the end 2012 possible that or the Zobmie Apoc
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
a plant will come out of it that will make the end 2012 possible that or the Zobmie Apoc[/quote]
Yeah, right. Zombie plants…psst
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Link: Extraordinary 298-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Under Chinese Coal Mine
[quote]American and Chinese scientists are flabbergasted after discovering a giant 298-million-year-old forest buried intact under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China.
They are calling it the Pompeii of the Permian period because, like the ancient Roman city, it was covered and preserved by volcanic ash.
Like Pompeii, this swamp forest is so perfectly maintained that scientists know where every plant originally was. This has allowed them to map it and to create the images above. This extraordinary finding “is like Pompeii”, according to University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn, who characterized it as “a time capsule.”
It's marvelously preserved. We can stand there and find a branch with the leaves attached, and then we find the next branch and the next branch and the next branch. And then we find the stump from the same tree. That's really exciting.
They are in fact finding entire trees and plants exactly as they were at the time of the volcanic eruption, just like archeologists in Pompeii found humans, animals and buildings at the base of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. Except Pompeei was buried in AD 79 and this forest was covered in ash 298 million years ago, during the Permian period.
Extraordinary 298-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Under Chinese Coal MineThe researchers discovered the 10,763-square-foot (1000-square-meter) area hidden under a coal mine using heavy industrial machinery. They believe that this frozen-in-time fossilized forest was covered under gigantic amounts of ash that fell from the sky for days.
So far, they have identified six groups of trees, some of them 80 feet tall. Some of them are Sigillaria and Cordaites, but they also found large groups of a type called Noeggerathiales, which are now completely extinct.
During the Permian, which extends from 299 to 251 million years ago, there weren’t conifers or flowers. Plants reproduced like ferns, using spores, and the modern continents were still joined in a single mass of land called Pangaea. This geologic period happened at the end of the Paleozoic era, after the Carboniferous.
During this time there were also animals. This is when the first groups of mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs and archosaurs started to roam the Earth. Scientist believe that the Permian�¢??and with it the entire Paleozoic era�¢??ended with the largest mass extinction ever, which obliterated 90 percent of the marine and 70 percent of the terrestrial species.
After this event, the Mesozoic era started with the Triassic period. That’s when the first true mammals evolved, the pterosaurs flew for the first time and the archosaurs’ rose to dominate Earth.
Pfefferkorn worked on the project with Jun Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yi Zhang of Shenyang Normal University and Zhuo Feng of Yunnan University. The results of their findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[/quote]
Awesome discovery, this is a paleontologists wet dream. [/quote]
That’s fucking awesome!
Sabertooth Pandas should totally be a high school mascot. The Eastside Falcons vs. The Northshore Sabertooth Pandas!!!
[quote]Christine wrote:
God created test tube believers in order to test the true believers.[/quote]
It’s like trying to read a snail trail after it rains tears in the fabric of time .
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
a plant will come out of it that will make the end 2012 possible[/quote]
Exactly what I was thinking.
They did mention that one species has been extinct for x amount of years. Might be a reason for that…
Interesting.
Very cool. I’m betting they will discover animals or insects a little later. Or perhaps since it is 300 million years old there were no animals that had evolved yet.
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Anyone else bummed that they found only trees?
I was hoping for some badass sabertoothed pandas or some shit.
Very cool discovery though [/quote]
Yeah I think it’s kinda weird that they didn’t find a single creature (to hopefully resurrect with artificial DNA muhahaha). You telling me the entire fuckin’ swamp forest was empty? [/quote]
^from op.
Mammals were very small then(read: no saber-tooth any thing). Might have been some bigger reptiles though. It’s very difficult for things to be fossilized too.
lepidosaurs (lizards and Sphenodon)
archosaurs (birds and crocodiles)
Cool article though. 
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Anyone else bummed that they found only trees?
I was hoping for some badass sabertoothed pandas or some shit.
Very cool discovery though [/quote]
Yeah I think it’s kinda weird that they didn’t find a single creature (to hopefully resurrect with artificial DNA muhahaha). You telling me the entire fuckin’ swamp forest was empty? [/quote]
^from op.
Mammals were very small then(read: no saber-tooth any thing). Might have been some bigger reptiles though. It’s very difficult for things to be fossilized too.
lepidosaurs (lizards and Sphenodon)
archosaurs (birds and crocodiles)
Cool article though.
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Stop with your anti-big toothed animal rants
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Anyone else bummed that they found only trees?
I was hoping for some badass sabertoothed pandas or some shit.
Very cool discovery though [/quote]
Yeah I think it’s kinda weird that they didn’t find a single creature (to hopefully resurrect with artificial DNA muhahaha). You telling me the entire fuckin’ swamp forest was empty? [/quote]
^from op.
Mammals were very small then(read: no saber-tooth any thing). Might have been some bigger reptiles though. It’s very difficult for things to be fossilized too.
lepidosaurs (lizards and Sphenodon)
archosaurs (birds and crocodiles)
Cool article though.
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Stop with your anti-big toothed animal rants[/quote]
But they’re big and scary!
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[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Anyone else bummed that they found only trees?
I was hoping for some badass sabertoothed pandas or some shit.
Very cool discovery though [/quote]
Yeah I think it’s kinda weird that they didn’t find a single creature (to hopefully resurrect with artificial DNA muhahaha). You telling me the entire fuckin’ swamp forest was empty? [/quote]
^from op.
Mammals were very small then(read: no saber-tooth any thing). Might have been some bigger reptiles though. It’s very difficult for things to be fossilized too.
lepidosaurs (lizards and Sphenodon)
archosaurs (birds and crocodiles)
Cool article though.
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Stop with your anti-big toothed animal rants[/quote]
But they’re big and scary!
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Why bring logic into this? Saber-toothed pandas sound awesome.
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Anyone else bummed that they found only trees?
I was hoping for some badass sabertoothed pandas or some shit.
Very cool discovery though [/quote]
Yeah I think it’s kinda weird that they didn’t find a single creature (to hopefully resurrect with artificial DNA muhahaha). You telling me the entire fuckin’ swamp forest was empty? [/quote]
^from op.
Mammals were very small then(read: no saber-tooth any thing). Might have been some bigger reptiles though. It’s very difficult for things to be fossilized too.
lepidosaurs (lizards and Sphenodon)
archosaurs (birds and crocodiles)
Cool article though.
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Stop with your anti-big toothed animal rants[/quote]
But they’re big and scary!
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Why bring logic into this? Saber-toothed pandas sound awesome.
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I prefer my fantasies have reality in them. I mean why not make them Leprechauns?
I really hope they clone a dinosaur before I die and I get to see it. Of course, if this happens, we’ll probably all be watching it on youtube.
Chickens are the closest living relatives of the T-Rex.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Chickens are the closest living relatives of the T-Rex.
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Hmmph, this whole time I thought it was Giada Delaurentis.
Oh and let us not forget who thought up the whole sabertoothed panda thing either.
Because, it was me.
ID should already be working on his rendition of one for my Avatar dammit.
I think it’s the 300 smashmillion year old earth thing.