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- iching, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting, sea turtles. The odd synchronicity of the news lately that turtles may also may also may be able to live forever, that the South Pacific islanders saw the importance of the creature to hold it in such awe.
Turtles resist growing old, and they resist growing up. Dr. Zug and his co-workers recently determined that among some populations of sea turtles, females do not reach sexual maturity until they are in their 40s or 50s, which Dr. Zug proposes could be “a record in the animal kingdom.”
Turtles are also ancient as a family. The noble chelonian lineage that includes all living turtles and tortoises extends back 230 million years or more, possibly predating other reptiles like snakes and crocodiles, as well as birds, mammals, even the dinosaurs.
http://www.discover.com/issues/jun-02/features/featturtle/ - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The title of the article should be "Scientists don't really solve riddle of faces on 3000 year old pottery from the south pacific, but think they have a neat theory which, however, is at present completely unsupported, and the scientists say that more research is needed to be able to really say anything at all".
The article is extremely vague and speculative (notice the number of "mights", "mays" and "maybes").
I managed to dig up a "lapita face", the type of marking this story is about:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lapi/hd_lapi.htm
Anyone know of another ancient depiction of a turtle or terrapin from *any* culture where the artist depicted the turtle without shell? 'Cause I don't.
Also look at the ////// outline markings found everywhere - those are the alleged "turtle tracks".
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