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Dinosaur Found Frozen In Antarctica
When you receive the Seal you begin to notice the wonders of God's Creation. One of those wonders is a dinosaur recently discovered frozen in Antarctica, thought to be quite ancient.
This dinosaur is thought to be 190 million years old. Even if those figures are not correct, it was a time in history when the continent of Antarctica was capable of supporting life.
And not just the life of a creature that would eat fish on the coast either. Antarctica had to be able to support the life of one of the largest creatures ever to walk the earth--a sauropodomorph.
That is what the dinosaur is that was found frozen on Antarctica. That means the ice had to be there for a long time. But there had to be a hospitable climate nearby so the dinosaur could wander there.
Sauropodomorph dinosaurs had incredibly long necks that enabled them to graze high up in the trees no other creatures could reach. They needed long tails to balance themselves with such long necks.
The researchers that found the dinosaur fossils were from Augustan College of Rock Island, Illinois. And they were found 15 years ago but they were not examined until just recently.
There is a mountain in Antarctica called Mount Kirkpatrick and the bones were found on that mountain, over 13,000 feet above sea level. It was removed under what was called "extremely difficult conditions."
All the ice had to be removed around the bones in an unforgiving climate. Jackhammers and rock saws had to be used to cut through the tough ice and free the relics of a bygone era.
In the Acta Palaeontologica Polonica that came out December 5 2007 there was an article about the Antarctic dinosaur, which measured over 20 feet long and weighed around 5 tons.
The theory is that Antarctica was connected to other continents many years ago. There was a "supercontinent" called Gondwana and that was how the dinosaur could have wandered so far south.
Then it is thought that 167 million years ago the continents started breaking up. So there would have been plenty of time for this dinosaur to wander onto what is not known as Antarctica and be preserved in the ice there.
There were some scattered bones of other dinosaurs found nearby. Theropod and ptersosaur bones were found, along with what may be a sauropod, but is not confirmed yet.
History remains a mystery to scientists. There are theories about what happened in history but of course just about all those theories are eventually proven wrong as more is uncovered in the earth.
When you are sealed God will plant His garden in you. So you will become just like a little earth where the seed is sown and springs to life. And just like the earth treasures from history may be buried in you.
These treasures of history are valuable to other people and they are valuable to God. Indeed when you are sealed you hold more precious treasure than all the dinosaur bones upon earth. The most precious treasure of all the earth is the Seal.
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