4/4/2003: Colossal squid

[juju]

Originally posted by russotto
How do they know it's a baby? Maybe it's a neotenous adult.

Your point reminds me of something sort of unrelated. Things scientists just convieniently ignore.

In my human evolution class a while back, the professor was explaining how they determine the date of a fossil or find if they're unable to date the find directly. Instead, they date the earth directly above and below the fossil, and get a possible date range from the soil or rock layers.

I asked him how they would know if someone dug deeply into the earth and placed the artifact or fossil into a different earth/time layer than what it was supposed to be in.

And he could only reply mischeviously that no one would ever do that.