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Joel Kontinen
22 million years is a long time, including in evolution. It is three
times the much that a chimpanzee or the like turned into a man. And the time a wolve like animal turned into awhale.
The plesiosaurs lived between during the Cretaceous Period, which spanned from 145 million years ago
to 66 million years ago.
”’ Basically, in
anything except Living fossils, youdon't go 22 million years without evolving,’ said Jacobs, professor
emeritus of Earth Sciences at SMU and president of ISEM at
SMU.”
SMU stands for Southern Methodist University.
Source:
CT scan of an ancient reptile skull reveals little evolutionary change over
22 million years SMU 25 August,
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