Crew of prehistoric monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/09/world/prehistoric-monkeys-crossed-atlantic-scn/index.html

Better than Poohsticks

Okay. I was thinking of them crewing up complete with paddles. A bit like the PG tip chimps.

It seems the vikings made their way to the U.K. just by drifting across in the currents.

Some species have been known to travel on whole continents. Take India for example. It used to be down by Madagascar. It then split up with Madagascar and travelled north up to dock with Asia, bringing the indigenous species with it.

Polar bears do it on icebergs too.

People have found shells from marine species up in the mountains of Nepal so the crash was quite powerful.

Found fossilised shells myself in India,theres a few places in the Himalaya you can fossick and find them.

There was a geologist and climber who went to the top of Everest and brought down fossils from the summit. Kenton Cool. Brought down rock samples and took them back to Oxford University. He has climbed it a number of times.

I bet it shocked a few people at the time.

I learnt it years ago,at coober pedy,met a few guys earning livings from mine spoil piles.

Isla del fuego,island of fire AKA Siquijor,fossils often turn up in fields in the islands interior.

Coober Pedy, the opal mines.

That’s where people live under the surface, I gather. The region has colossal shale oil reserves.

Were those the dark looking round concretions with a fossil on the inside when you break them open? (They are highly sought after from a religious stance).



Shaligrams as the locals call them. The fossils are ammonites which are or were marine creatures that lived well below the sea surface. Now found half way up in the Himalayas.

The clash of 6,000 years versus 4.5 billion years. Those ammonites have a lot to answer for.

They were ammonites, the same fossils as the kids in Pakistan hunza valley sell when they try to flog you garnets as rubies I met a Filipino geologist years ago who worked for the DENR, I spent a few days with him while he and his team were checking caves, got a pic of him somewhere opening a coffin

Yes. I hadn’t thought of it like that. A bit ironic.

They appear in the fossil record from 240 to 65 million years ago and died out when the dinosaurs did. Their closest living relative is the Nautilus.