The Flood

I'm not sure what you mean by "virtually no coverage" but I remember it being all over the regualar newspapers at the time and certainly all the popsci mags.As for my view of it: I've grown up my whole life reading suggestions that the flood story grew from large, rare local floods occuring and being enhanced with story telling.This is another candidate for a really large (a new sea born) and very rare(happened once) local flood so it doesn't really change much except give a very good candidate for such an idea.

You mostest hugest mistake is the "while giving birth". It didn't have to be "preserved" while giving birth and I'm sure wasn't. It only had to die while giving birth which we know happens; sometimes because of the birth itself other times just because of increased vulnerbility and others just bad luck.Once dead there are lots of preserving process (especiailly in water). If it sinks into a low oxygen area or into a place where sediments are being laid down reasonably quickly (off a river mouth, bottom of an undersea cliff etc.) then the preservation can take place over days, weeks or even months.It is just our good luck that this one was preserved and found out of all that probably died while giving birth.

It is nice to have you here again Joe but please do not waste your time on the likes of "Charley". He is a complete loon who just makes up crap as he goes along. I'm not sure if "troll" is the word but his posts smell like one.It would be nice of you to use your scarce time where it will do some good.

They are reptiles; they can't be chondrichthyes. They evolved from bony fish I don't see them losing that. They had bony skeletons.Why scavengers didn't pick them apart I don't know since I don't know the conditions where they died. I gave a couple of reasons why that is possible even with slow burial and they may well have been buried reasonably quickly.