Posted by
Average Voter on Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:01:14 PM
I believe the writers of
this story missed the irony.
(Coal) Miners in Romania have unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5 million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe, a local official said Friday.
The animal — 10 feet (3 meters) high and 23 feet (7 meters) long — was a forefather of today's elephants. It is related to the mammoth, but fed on leaves instead of grazing and had straight tusks, instead of curved ones. The reason it died out was probably due to climate change, said Codrea.
In the story, we have miners digging out what millions of years ago used to be the plant matter that was this mastodons main source of nurishment. They find his bones buried with the very substance that is now, according to most enviromentalist, the thing that has the most to do with todays rising temperatures.
Who was burning the coal 2.5 million years ago?