Sea Dragon Troubles Evolution
Crappie Crankbait from the Darwin Ranch specializes in ancient aquatic reptiles, and he was giving a lecture in town. It was a follow up to his ichthyosaur talk, this time about mosasaurs. Dr. Crankbait gave old talking points about the critters.
Yes, these reptiles were big, about 50 feet or 15 meters long. Their order is Squamata because they are supposedly related to lizards that left land and returned to the sea. It has been assumed that mosasaurs were poor swimmers. When I publicly asked how anyone knows these things, Dr. Crankbait ignored me.
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Mosasaurus hoffmannii skeleton (cropped and adjusted), Wikimedia Commons / Ghedoghedo (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
Recently, “researchers may have discovered Mississippi’s largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed south of Starkville.” It was, of course, a huge 100% mosasaur, not an evolutionary ancestor. In addition, it was merely buried in sediments labeled as Cretaceous System rocks. It didn’t really live millions of years ago. The Cretaceous is simply one layer within the thick Flood rocks found all over the globe.But paleontologist Michael Polcyn states mosasaurs are somehow an example of large-scale evolution.
You can read the full article at "The Mosasaur: A Giant Sea Dragon."