Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / July 2006

Were plesiosaurs fish, amphibians, or reptiles?

Hypothetically Speaking
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses. Sverker Johansson. xii + 345 pp. John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2005. $114.
After a long period of disrepute, the evolution of language has recently reemerged as an important focus of ...

Although I love the idea of this huge, hyena-like beast, the one skull
fragment found looks just like an entelodont. I'm thinking this was
wishful thinking, rather than science.
Anyone else come to the same conclusion?

I just saw a piece on CNN that some Christian archaeologist says he
found Noah's Ark petrified on a mountainside in Iraq!
Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for
wood to petrify??