MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL (A human skull as old as coal!)
Ed Conrad (edconrad@prolog.net)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:46:29 GMT
The WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT FOSSIL, unquestionably, is
a petrified human skull embedded in a boulder which was discovered
between anthracite veins in Carboniferous strata near Shenandoah, Pa.
It means man -- in almost our present form but considerably larger --
had existed on earth multi-million years before the initial emergence
of the earliest cat-size, monkey-like primate which science texbooks
have long proclaimed to be our most distant ancestor.
A color photo of the skull, with one side protruding from the boulder,
can now be seen in all its intriguing magnificence at
> http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/skulla.jpg
The photograph is a direct link from
> http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/conmain.htm
where photos of other Carboniferous fossils, also found between coal
veins, can be viewed.
Meanwhile, another photo -- comparing the petrified human cranium
in the boulder with a modern human skull -- can be seen at
> http://www.access.digex.net/~medved/conrad/skullb.jpg
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