Joel Kontinen
Ancient
'frosty' rhino from Canada's High Arctic rewrites what scientists thought they
knew about the North Atlantic Land Bridge
Rhinos were not supposed to life so far from the equator. The evolutionists have a reason for this –
they claim that the land bridge had brought the continents together, no mention
of a global flood which is the more plausible examination as fossils from the flood
could have brought to Canada.
Darwinists think that it took millions of years for these animals to reach Canada.
Scientists
have called the animal Epiatheracerium itjilik, with the species name
meaning "frost" or "frosty" in Inuktitut. These creatures
were similar in size to modern Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis), according
to a statement from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN). The newly
identified fossils are the only specimen found to date and show that
the animal died of unknown causes as a young adult.
"What's
remarkable about the Arctic rhino is that the fossil bones are in excellent
condition," Marisa Gilbert, a CMN paleobiologist and co-author of a
new analysis of the remains, said in the statement. "They are
three-dimensionally preserved and have only been partially replaced by
minerals. About 75% of the skeleton was discovered, which is incredibly complete
for a fossil."
The bones
were preserved inside the 14-mile-wide (23 kilometers) impact crater thanks to
it rapidly filling with water. The crater formed from an asteroid or
comet around the same time that the Arctic rhino lived, which
suggests the rhino died inside the crater before it became a lake.
The climate
in this region was far warmer then than it is today, and plant remains show
that the Canadian High Arctic — specifically, Devon Island in Nunavut, where
the crater is located — hosted a temperate forest, according to the statement.
As the
Miocene epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago) transitioned into the
Pliocene epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and finally gave way to
the last ice age, the fossils were broken up by freeze and thaw cycles and
gradually pushed to the surface of the crater. Researchers then found the
fossils in 1986.
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