ardvarcus

Extinction-level catastrophes kill off a large number of species, opening the biosphere for the introduction of a vast number of new species around the same time.

speedisavirus

No. Fuck off retard.

ComedicGoat

Well, I don't know what my stand on this is yet. Evolution is still a theory but it's somehow come to be accepted as law. There needs to be further studies into this and I'd be really interested to see how this turns out.

Kekmet-Peperoni

Darwin said himself words to the effect of "if we dont find the missing link species' then evoulution will only be a theory".

chris

This, to me, reads as more evidence of the biblical deluge, and event we're finding more and more evidence for as time goes on.

Which, if the interpretations of sites like Gobekli Tepe are right, this happens on a regular, reoccurring basis.

B3bomber

Bible flood ripped off from older texts. But yeah, ancient massive disaster that effected the entire planet. The other reply here has the most likely cause and time frame (a lot of older structures we know of came from about 11,500 years ago for their construction and abandonment).

bb22

Yep, there is massive evidence for a massive cataclysm. My money is on Hancock’s theory of comet impact about “12,000 years ago” (these dating techniques are so bullshit I don’t like even pretending that these numbers mean anything.)

carlip

that's a retarded. 9 out of 10 animals appeared with in the last 100,000-200,000 years? no. sharks, he'll nearly every fish, crocodiles, every known marine mammal have left evidence from millions of years ago, remaining largely unchanged.

bb22

I don’t know the specifics of this study but it could reflect a “bottleneck” in genetic diversity resulting from an extinction-level event (comet impact/global flood, etc.).

I’m not averse to the idea of another intelligent species creating these creatures after such an event either. I don’t think we’re alone.

CallASpadeASpade

Yeah but the vast, vast majority of species on the planet are either a) insects or b) small local populations that live on isolated islands. I don’t know the exact numbers but it’s not outlandish that everything you pointed out could make up only a tiny share of the species.

senpaithatignoresyou

There were also those mass extinction events in the past, that culled vast amounts of life on this planet.