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Massive New Cambrian-Era Fossil Bed Found
jfbilodeau sends word of a massive new trove of fossils located in Canada, which scientists say will rival the acclaimed Burgess Shale fossil bed. The rock formation inside which both fossil sites were found is roughly 505 million years old (abstract). The fossils provide insight into the Cambrian explosion, a time that brought the rapid appearance and diversification of many animal forms. "In just two weeks, the research team collected more than 3,000 fossils representing 55 species. Fifteen of these species are new to science." Paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron said, "The rate at which we are finding animals — many of which are new — is astonishing, and there is a high possibility that we'll eventually find more species here than at the original Yoho National Park site, and potentially more than from anywhere else in the world." The fossils at the new site are about 100,000 years younger and are better preserved than those at the renowned Burgess shale site.
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These 'fossils' are in fact put in place by the devil to convince mankind that there is no God, driving more hapless followers into his evil realm.
The difference between groups and individuals is sexual individuals specialize to create asexual groups and asexual cells specialize to create sexual individuals. http://archive.org/stream/Huma...
Seastead this.
Or because it is not in the US it doesn't exist?
I am not a paleontologist and was surprised that 15 of the 55 species found were previously unknown. I really thought we knew more. Is it possible that a significant find could radically change the way we think of the past?
South Carolina just declared that evolution shouldn't be in text books, so I don't see how this can be...
God is giving us a great test. Only the truly righteous and resolute will be able to escape the appeal of "convenient" blasphemous explanations.
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All that happened was the emergence of bones/shells. This was the first thing that could fossilize. Everything earlier had just soft tissues and they did not fossilize well. So there was an "explosion" of fossilization, not necessarily speciation.
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New fossils, that's great.. whatever. Did they find any more oil?!? DIG THAT SHIT UP!
This north state should stop the work immediately and wait for the permission from US agencies.
Otherwise drones will be sent.
That is a bit hard to believe since the Burgess Shale preserves such exquisite detail.
And 100,000 years is a short time....
You just get off the Bow Valley Parkway on the road going west to Radium (Highway 93), cross the Alberta/BC border, and stop at the Marble Canyon Campground (if you see a sign that says Vermillion river, that's the campground), and look NorthEast from there. From the pictures it appears to be the south western slopes of Mount Whymper W1, about 51.206N, 116.114W (The area was burned in a wildfire in 2005). There is a high valley with a glacier at the north end, and gobs of gravel in the middle of Whymper and Whymper W1. Just a guess though, could be wrong. I know its all top secret and whatnot. Mind you, its been there for a while.
If a fossil falls in the bed, and there is no paleontologist to find it, does it make a sound? err. I mean does it exist? Clearly "Bed down" has a different meaning to a paleontologist than it has to you.
48 comments before this, and 28 of them taking stabs at the fundamentalist anti-dinosaur strawman. I came for a fight and wasn't disappointed. Never mind that the other side didn't even show up.
Didn't H.P. Lovecraft write about that? Most of his Ancient Ones were "protoplasmic masses" (see The Shadow Out of Time.)
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These 'fossils' are in fact put in place by the devil to convince mankind that there is no God, driving more hapless followers into his evil realm.
There are many theistic evolutionist out there, and many creationists that do not believe in a "young earth".
If anything, this would bolster the claims of "old earth" creationism, not diminish it.
The mindless posts by atheistic evolutionists attempting sarcasm, like those found here, does make you question where you can find an intelligent being in this place.
How long do palaeontologists get before this site is destroyed in the name of oil?
For example the vatican has long recognized evolution, and the earth as being very old. In europe creationism, YEC, and so forth are nigh unknown. It is an indiosynchrazie of the US with YEC and creationism, litterral bible interpretation.
10,000 years ago?
Go to any Walmart in the USA, and you'll find more giant beavers there than you can shake yer stick at!
Where are all the loud Christians— the ones who aren't insane—when it comes time to shout down the anti-scientific bias being introduced into school systems in certain American states?
I'll take what you're saying far more seriously when I see the sober-minded Christians busy shouting down their own who cross the line. I sure as hell shout down scientists who begin to claim more than science can reasonably pretend to know. This particularly stereotype was well and duly earned through meek opposition. The meek shall inherit the worst.
My comment went from +4, Funny to -1, Flamebait, which would mean most moderators seem to think that I am making fun of a rational POV in order to stat a flame war? Interesting, and you can't blame this to the Beta!
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