. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . ay noth-ing of land animals, stand a very poor chance of beingburied intact. Thus Nordenskiold, the veteran arctic ex-plorer, so accustomed tothose regions where animallife flourishes in such pro-fusion, remarks with amaze-ment on the difficulty offinding the remains of ani-mals or fish that have re-cently died, every relic oftheir existence having appar-ently disappeared. He con-cludes by saying: — It is strange, in any case, that on Spitzbergen it is easierto find the vertebrae of a gigantic lizard of the Trias than
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . ay noth-ing of land animals, stand a very poor chance of beingburied intact. Thus Nordenskiold, the veteran arctic ex-plorer, so accustomed tothose regions where animallife flourishes in such pro-fusion, remarks with amaze-ment on the difficulty offinding the remains of ani-mals or fish that have re-cently died, every relic oftheir existence having appar-ently disappeared. He con-cludes by saying: — It is strange, in any case, that on Spitzbergen it is easierto find the vertebrae of a gigantic lizard of the Trias thanbones of a self-dead seal, walrus, or bird, and the samealso holds good of more southerly inhabited lands. We might expect to find about the mouths of such riversas the Hudson, Seine, or Thames, numerous fossiliferousremains of dogs, cats, and other domestic animals. Andyet, in spite of the thousands of carcasses consigned to thesewaters, none of their remains have been found in recentexcavations in the Thames deposits. (Popular ScienceMonthh, Vol. XXI, 1882, page 693.). Cycloids Miocene. LEBIAS CEPHALOTES from the French 152 GODS TWO BOOKS Dana explains the matter somewhat in the followinglanguage:— Vertebrate animals, as fishes, reptiles, etc., which fall topieces when the animal portion is removed, require speedy burial afterdeath toescape destruc-tion from thissource [de-c o m positionand chemicalsolution fromair, rain-water,etc. ] as wellas from ani-m a 1s thatwould preyupon them.—A/a nuaWpage 141. These car-casses of landanimalsbrought downby the riversare evidentlydevoured b yfishes before they have time to be buried by sediment. If a vertebrate fishshould die a natural death, which of itself must be a rare oc-currence, the carcass would soon be devoured whole or bitby bit by other creatures near by. Possibly the lower jaw,or the teeth, spines, etc., in the case of sharks, or a bone
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