300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
National Park Service Rangers have confirmed the collapse of a frequently visited arch in Rock Creek Bay in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, which occurred on August 8, 2024.
A Jurassic graveyard in Patagonia, Argentina, holds more than 100 fossilized eggs and the bones of 80 Mussaurus patagonicus dinosaurs ranging in age from hatchling to adult. The trove of dinosaur remains suggests that these paleo-beasts lived in herds as early as 192 million years ago, a new study finds.
Meso- means middle. Clearly something is different about Mesozoic sediment compared to Paleozoic and Cenozoic. Paleozoic was the deluge. Mesozoic was the period of time when the water remained high on the Earth.
What really matters in the popular science narrative of godless existence (SciPop). Location, location, location. Were forest fires an extinction event at the end of the Triassic? Or did a few burned trees get fossilized?
First mammals? A place where mammals were buried doesn't make them the first mammals. The presence of mammal remains in sediment is used to place the sediment in timeline of the evolution narrative.
In real estate it's location, location, location. In Paleodoublespeak its location, location, location. Glossopterids didn't inhabit a savanna ecosystem with arid to semiarid climates, so there aren't any.
The Triassic wasn't rise of the cycadophytes and Ginkgoales, it's the preserved remains of cycadophytes and Ginkgoales because their habitat was destroyed and buried in a world-wide flood. That's Paleodoublespeak.
The paleoenvironments of the periods of geological history that we're seen so far include a statement about climate as a way to rationalize why so much sediment would be eroded, transported and deposited.
The Triassic is another microcosm of inductive reductive circular reasoning that we may wryly refer to as an "eddy in the space-time continuum." It's a tip of the hat to Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.