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Post by shatnerswig on Oct 5, 2010 9:02:45 GMT 10
In 1821, Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine carried an unusual item about a stone mason named David Virtue who made an astonishing discovery while working on a large chunk of rock that had come from about 22 feet below the surface. Upon breaking it open "he found a lizard embedded in the stone. It was coiled up in a round cavity of its own form, being an exact impression of the animal. It was about an inch and a quarter long, of a brownish yellow color, and had a round head, with bright sparkling projecting eyes. It was apparently dead, but after being about five minutes exposed to the air it showed signs of life. It soon ran about with much celerity." There are numerous documented accounts of such findings, mostly involving frogs, toads or lizards. Most often the animals come out alive. And very often there is an imprint of their skin or shape on the cavity in which they are entombed. And this raises a number of interesting questions: How could the animal have gotten in there and survived? How did rock - which geology tells us takes hundreds if not thousands of years to form - take shape around the animal? How long could the animal have been in there?
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Post by alienbeing on Oct 5, 2010 9:22:46 GMT 10
toad encased in stone. lol i'm not smart enough to figure it out. over to you wiggy
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 5, 2010 9:41:43 GMT 10
i've never heard of this before. of course i'm skeptical but any additional info would be nice.
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Post by shatnerswig on Oct 5, 2010 19:57:10 GMT 10
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Post by shatnerswig on Oct 5, 2010 19:59:10 GMT 10
•Toad and lizard in solid rock. During World War II, a British soldier was working with a team in the quarrying of stone for making roads and filling in bomb craters. They often used explosives to crack open the rock. After one such detonation, the soldier pried a stone slab away from the quarry face when he saw "in a pocket in the rock a large toad and beside it a lizard at least nine inches long. Both these animals were alive, and the amazing thing was that the cavity they were in was at least 20 feet from the top of the quarry face."
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Post by shatnerswig on Oct 5, 2010 20:00:19 GMT 10
The most incredible of such anecdotes was recorded in 1856 in France. Workmen laboring in a tunnel for a railway line were cutting through Jurassic limestone when a large creature stumbled out from inside it. It fluttered its wings, made a croaking noise and dropped dead. According to the workers, the creature had a 10-foot wingspan, four legs joined by a membrane, black leathery skin, talons for feet, and a toothed mouth. A local student of paleontology identified the animal as a pterodactyl!
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 5, 2010 20:23:57 GMT 10
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Post by Eagan Thorn on Oct 6, 2010 8:28:05 GMT 10
Although those claims of the animal still living not withstanding, these fossils or mummified remains encased in rock should not come as a surprise to anyone. There are many species of animals, reptiles, fish, amphibian, etc. that will “hibernate” in mud during winter or dry spells, some of which would inevitably expire during hibernation. Some of these desert species secrete a slime cocoon to aid in preserving their lungs which require moisture during the long months of draught induced hibernation. The mummification or fossilization of these animals should be expected. The stories of them being alive when opened are nothing more than exaggerations or possibly a few pranks on the guilible.
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 6, 2010 15:14:32 GMT 10
fossils yes............coming back to life...........bullshit.
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Post by shatnerswig on Oct 6, 2010 19:19:32 GMT 10
bullshit you say? then explain this!
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