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Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
Grr....
Why do people always use the Basking Shark Theory when it just doesn't hold water? The "brain case" is surrounded by something much larger, a skull. So when a Basking Shark decays, the skull doesn't just desolve away with the rest of the tissue. There's a much larger mystery here.
[edit on 8/24/2006 by TheB1ueSoldier]
[edit on 8/24/2006 by TheB1ueSoldier]
Originally posted by TheB1ueSoldier
The hard evidence just doesn't add up. The skull and jawbone of the basking shark are huge, much larger than the flimsy backbone of the shark. So if the easily-breakable spine washed up on shore, why didn't the Rest Of The Entire Head wash up too?
Besides the apparent carcasses that wash up here and there, the Plesiosaur theory has been supported by tribes around the world that describe a mythical creature with eeirly similar characteristics to a Plesiosaur.
Here's a rendition of a cave painting made by the Kuku Yalanji tribespeople of far North Queensland:
Here's an Egyptian seal owned by Pharoah Tutmosis III, dating back to around 1400 B.C.. Note the flippers and elongated neck:
Here's a mosaic made by one of Alexander The Great's topographers. The mosaic is called "Nile Mosaic of Palestrina":
There are dozens of other paintings, inscriptions, carvings, and clay figures depicting some sort of Plesiosaur-like creature. And all of these come from random parts of the world, where inter-communication was unavailable and outside influence was impossible.