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Duvenoy · 07-31-2002, 02:52 PM

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To be correct, it's the only species of Metatherian mammals (marsupials) to be found in North America. There are @70 species of marsupials in Central and South America.

Exactly right. And that's what I get for being in a hurry.

doov

Athanasius · 08-01-2002, 10:15 AM

I doubt that the discovery of a fossil marsupial carnivore will threaten many informed creationists. There have been similar findings of marsupial carnivores in South America, including Thylacosmilus, a sabre-tooth marsupial "lion." One creationist explanation for the isolation of marsupials on the Australasian continent is similar to the evolutionary explanation, that the marsupials, because they carried their young rather than keeping them in nests or dens, migrated to the continent before the land bridges closed, but the placentals did not make it in time.

Coragyps · 08-01-2002, 10:18 AM

Hi, ACM, and welcome to II!

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that the marsupials, because they carried their young rather than keeping them in nests or dens, migrated to the continent before the land bridges closed, but the placentals did not make it in time.

Duck! WHOOSH! Oh, it went over my head!

Mageth · 08-01-2002, 10:27 AM

I guess the placentals had to stop and wait for their babies to grow up before they could cross. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

Kosh · 08-01-2002, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by AthanasiusContraMundum:
<strong>One creationist explanation for the isolation of marsupials on the Australasian continent is similar to the evolutionary explanation, that the marsupials, because they carried their young rather than keeping them in nests or dens, migrated to the continent before the land bridges closed, but the placentals did not make it in time.</strong>

Well, this makes sense, since at 6000 years old, that continent must have been moving away like a freight train leaving the platform...

Mageth · 08-01-2002, 01:09 PM

What would they say about the indigenous placental mammals that did make it (e.g. water rat, bush rat, dingos, H. Sapiens)?

And what about the Monotremes? Reptiles? Amphibians?

And why did the Marsupials make it to the Americas, Australia, and Papua New Guinea but nowhere else?

Coragyps · 08-01-2002, 01:23 PM

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Well, this makes sense, since at 6000 years old, that continent must have been moving away like a freight train leaving the platform...

And away from Antarctica, noted hangout of all those scurrilous monotremes and such, at that!

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08-01-2002, 10:15 AM	#22
Athanasius Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Lilburn, GA Posts: 18	I doubt that the discovery of a fossil marsupial carnivore will threaten many informed creationists. There have been similar findings of marsupial carnivores in South America, including Thylacosmilus, a sabre-tooth marsupial "lion." One creationist explanation for the isolation of marsupials on the Australasian continent is similar to the evolutionary explanation, that the marsupials, because they carried their young rather than keeping them in nests or dens, migrated to the continent before the land bridges closed, but the placentals did not make it in time.

08-01-2002, 10:27 AM	#24
Mageth Contributor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Deep in the heart of mother-lovin' Texas Posts: 29,689	I guess the placentals had to stop and wait for their babies to grow up before they could cross. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

08-01-2002, 01:09 PM	#26
Mageth Contributor Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Deep in the heart of mother-lovin' Texas Posts: 29,689	What would they say about the indigenous placental mammals that did make it (e.g. water rat, bush rat, dingos, H. Sapiens)? And what about the Monotremes? Reptiles? Amphibians? And why did the Marsupials make it to the Americas, Australia, and Papua New Guinea but nowhere else?

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