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| Tango01 | 26 Jul 2014 9:33 p.m. PST |
…others quickly appeared. "After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely disappeared. Only a million years later, at Mexican Hat, in southeastern Montana, fossil leaves show diverse leaf-mining traces from new insects that were not present during the Cretaceous, according to paleontologists…"
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| Gonsalvo | 27 Jul 2014 5:19 a.m. PST |
Interesting imnformation, if not in any significant way hobby related. As a a science Geek, I enjoy this stuff, though! |
| zippyfusenet | 27 Jul 2014 5:23 a.m. PST |
Oh give me a home where tyrannosaurs roam,
Where the shy stegosauruses play,
Where seldom is heard either mammal or bird,
And the seas are Cretaceous all day.
Home, home on the range,
In the mid-to-late Mesozoic Age,
Where seldom is heard either mammal or bird,
And the seas are Cretaceous all day. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jul 2014 3:31 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend Gonsalvo!. Amicalement
Armand |
 Saber6  | 27 Jul 2014 3:51 p.m. PST |
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