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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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First-Ever: 3.5 Million-Year-Old Megalodon Tooth Found Undisturbed on Deep-Sea Floor (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How do they know it’s not been dropped just yesterday? I saw a documentary about it and this guy called Jason Statham had to like, swim real good to get away from one that was definitely alive looking so I don’t know why the scientists think it’s so old. I mean that’s so old God didn’t even invent the world yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah seriously, 20-40 million years ago God wasn’t even in the R&D phase of human development, at best he just had a working mood board. That was totally a tooth from Statham’s encounter, that’s the real headline here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m going to have to write into that magazine and set them straight with some good old fashioned common sense.