Giant penguin fossil found Ananova, 2000   Giant Penguin Archaeologists have found the fossil remains of a giant penguin that was almost as big as a man. Experts reckon the bones they've discovered prove the bird was around 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall and weighed 60kg. A dig uncovered the fossil in a quarry near Oamaru on New Zealand's South Island.   CLEARWATER BEACH-1948 Numerous people reported a giant penguin seen on Clearwater Beach in 1948. The huge bird was described as 15 feet tall and supposedly left big tracks along the beach. During this same period, some people in a boat off the Gulf coast reported seeing an extremely large penguin-like bird floating on the water.

These incidents were reported in several newspapers. In the same year, another big penguin-like bird was seen by a private airplane pilot on the banks of the Suwannee River in North Florida. The famed investigator of the unknown, the late Ivan Sanderson, conducted a scientific inquiry into both cases. No conclusion or explanation was ever reached.

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In 1991, alligator bones were found on the banks of the Amazon River. The skull was almost 5 feet long. Based on this, scientists estimated its height to have been 8 feet (when walking) and its length 40 feet (the size of a railroad boxcar).

"Professor Carl Frailey, from Overland Park, Kansas, said the creature probably weighed around 12 ton. `This would make it about a ton heavier than Tyrannosaurus Rex... the mightiest of dinosaur predators', he said." In short, if reptiles today lived longer, they would be "dinosaurs" in a few hundred years." (super croc image from National Geographic) 

 

Mega Fauna--No Real Place in Evolution
 

One reason that Giant mammals aren't currently well known is that they aren't discussed very much by the scientific community--not like dinosaurs are. Evolutionary theory doesn't do that great a job of explaining why such large animals were the ancestors of the smaller animals living today.

It's one thing if all these extinct animals are different species than exist today (and in some cases they are) but quite another if the primary difference is that they were giant animals. Scientists solve this problem by the use of the scientific term: "LIKE". For instance, if a 12 foot St. Bernard were to walk across their lawn, they would describe it as a "Dog-Like creature, rather than a dog.

One theory that has been advanced by creationists science is that prior to the flood, a vapor canopy covered the earth; some theorize that the vapor canopy would have blocked out harmful radiation which gets through now.

Further, the canopy would have created an almost perfect year round temperature. There is of course no way to prove this theory but the fact that plants, animals and man were bigger than they are today can be seen from the fossil record.

 

 

 

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