Would your illustration be before or after that creation would have sinned
to go from vegetation to meat. To have teeth for foraging and digging to
preservation. The bible states vegetation, however you seem to imply a marvel
of modern science to know implicitly. Did you build a time machine? So then,
your point being!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you wish to continue, the forum is yours, I
find your argument redundant at this point.
When scientists discovered the fossilized skull of a huge prehistoric rodent six years ago in
Uruguay, they could tell right away that the extinct buffalo-sized creature had
freakishly large incisors.
But a new analysis of the specimen of Josephoartigasia monesi -- believed to
be the "the largest rodent ever to have lived" -- reveals
that this ancient relative of the guinea pig used its gigantic teeth for more
than delivering a powerful bite.
“We concluded that Josephoartigasia must have used its incisors for activities
other than biting, such as digging in
the ground for food, or defending itself from predators," Dr.
Philip Cox, a professor
of physiology at the University of York and Hull York Medical School in
England, who led the research, said in a written statement. "This is very
similar to how a modern day elephant uses its tusks."
While not so huge as the largest non-avian dinosaurs, Gastornis was nevertheless a giant
in its Paleocene and Eocene heyday between 55 and 40 million years ago. In
Europe the bird towered over the mammals who inhabited the same forests – the
largest herbivores and carnivores of the day were about the size of a German
shepherd, with many being considerably smaller. (In North America, where Gastornis fossils were previously labeled “Diatryma“, some of the
contemporary herbivorous mammals grew to bigger sizes, but there were still
many smaller beasts running about.) So it seemed only natural that the monstrous bird would have preyed on the scurrying
mammals, pouncing on “dawn horses” and cleaving lemur-like primates in two with
it’s powerful beak. In museums and documentaries, Gastornis
marked the last gasp of dinosaur dominance before mammals took over the world.
But recent research has found that Gastornis wasn’t so terrifying, after all.
While a 1991 paper concluded that the bird’s beak could have made short work of
many small mammals, other
publications pointed out that such a beak would have been just as well-suited
to cracking seeds and crunching tough fruit. More recently, tracks of Gastornis – née “Diatryma” – found in Washington
show that the bird had blunted toes rather than vicious talons, and a preliminary study of dietary clues preserved
in the bones of a German specimen of the bird suggested a menu of plants rather than flesh.
And now paleontologist Delphine Angst and colleagues have added another line of
evidence that Gastornis probably wasn’t a
rapacious mammal-muncher.