"Bones upon bones... we couldn't believe our eyes." Says Oliver Wings, the unfortunate paleontologist that stumbled on the mass grave of more than 1800 Jurassic Era turtles in China's province of Xinjiang (I couldn't pronounce it either). Poor Oliver was just minding his own business, looking for other dead things, when they found the huge number of turtles in their watering hole.
The turtles were said to have converged on the watering hole, because of -you guessed it- a lack of water, or drought. The turtles happily awaited the rain, but alas the rain came too late. By the time it got there, most of the turtles were probably dead, and their bodies rotting. The rain came with a vengeance, and brought with it a wall of mud, which covered and killed the remaining population.
This is only scientific speculation, however. For all we know, there was a massive World War in the Jurassic period, between the turtles, dinosaurs, and other prehistoric life. Is it not fishy that the dinosaurs AND these turtles were prone to mass extinction? Clearly, the turtles developed nuclear weapons, and used it to eliminate all of the dinosaurs. However in the processs, they wiped out a huge number of their own. Embarassed of their mistake, they tried to bury their fallen comrades in various graves throughout the world, and it is only now that we are discovering this.
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HI Greydon!
ReplyDeleteI read all your posts. They are pretty cool. Are you a true science geek or did you look up this stuff and write a running commentary on funny science things which deserve to be addressed? Loved the Jurassic World War idea. You never know. We could actually be the dumbest species in the galaxy and be living in some kind of time warped bubble that is controlled by outer space. Their biggest weapon is to make us think we are the most intelligent species. As we continue to celebrate our ridiculous notions of success, and create our ludicrously gigantic amusement park shopping malls , we are slowly self-destructing. In a blink of a martian's eye (probably 25 centuries our time), we will be gone and life in the galaxy will just move on with more important things.
I also liked your other posts. Interesting "what if" comments and a fun perspective on some of the strange potential captured in this universe.
Keep it up - but make sure to never burn tortellini while immersed your state of total blogging euphoria. :) M. Morton