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A Kraken Tale, Toothy Pterosaurs, Coloring Fossil Moths, Digital Dinos, Black Death Sequenced, Marriage Madness, The Hard Lives of Stars, We Got Muscles, No More Vitamins, And Much More…
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Toothy Pterosaur
Black holes destroy stars
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Materialism and Marriage
Black death sequenced
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Muscles of the future
Don’t take your vitamins
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I’m surprised that you simply mimicked the mocking tone of the Kraken article. Although there is only minimal circumstantial evidence of the creature, if you think about it that’s probably all you could expect from a big octopus. They used the behavior of modern octopus and extrapolated to hypothesize about the formations of bones that nobody else has a credible explanation for. I admit it’s not hard evidence and until a giant cephalopod beak is found we can’t know for sure. but is that a reason to mock and belittle a theory you have only read about in a mocking article? Is it so hard to believe in a giant prehistoric cephalopod that plays with it’s food?
That’s probably all you could expect from a big octopus.
Wrong. Octopuses can fossilize.
http://www.tonmo.com/science/fossils/fossiloctopuses.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoctopus
Is that a reason to mock and belittle a theory?
Yes! Mark McMenamin a prolific fraudster!
Ferocious mockery is the correct response!
Some of his past, spurious claims include:
– Africans discovered the Americas before Columbus and the Vikings.
– Discovery of an Ediacaran fossil that is neither plant nor animal.
Source: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/ma_mcmenamin.html
Is it so hard to believe in a giant prehistoric cephalopod that plays with it’s food?
No. What is hard to believe is McMenamin’s explanation for the Berlin Ichthyosaur fossil.
His paper is rubbish, just more of the same fame-seeking nonsense as his previous work.
Is it a midden pile? Quite possibly, it is.
Earliest known self-portrait? Pure, laughable idiocy!
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/finalprogram/abstract_197227.htm