Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,815 Year: 3,072/9,624 Month: 917/1,588 Week: 100/223 Day: 11/17 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   New Specimen of Archaeopteryx Goes on Display
Tanypteryx
Member
Posts: 4344
From: Oregon, USA
Joined: 08-27-2006
Member Rating: 5.9


(4)
Message 1 of 2 (790644)
09-02-2016 10:52 AM


The Oldest Archaeopteryx in Town

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

Replies to this message:
 Message 2 by NoNukes, posted 09-02-2016 1:56 PM Tanypteryx has seen this message but not replied

  
NoNukes
Inactive Member


(4)
Message 2 of 2 (790654)
09-02-2016 1:56 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Tanypteryx
09-02-2016 10:52 AM


Just some context from the article that might be relevant to some ongoing discussion:
quote:
For much of the Late Jurassic, western Europe was covered by a shallow tropical sea. Small islands formed an archipelago which stretched from Portugal to France and into Germany and where the land met the water there were extensive lagoons. Some of these lagoons became cut off from the sea and also from terrestrial runoff. They remained relatively still bodies of water that gradually became more saline and anoxic (low in oxygen). These conditions meant that there were few large organisms around to scavenge any carcases should they end up in the water. The lack of current enabled the bodies of organisms to gently become covered by the soft carbonate mud. This led to the fantastic degree of preservation seen in many of the Solnhofen fossils found today.
In short, some explanation of why fossils are rare but not non-existent.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Tanypteryx, posted 09-02-2016 10:52 AM Tanypteryx has seen this message but not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024