The Statler Waldorf Recovery Room

[Zen Badger]

Rather the fossil record is best explained by mobility and intelligence. The less intelligent and less mobile animals would be buried first. We see this. The more mobile but less intelligent animals would be next, small mammels and dinosaurs. We would expect that very few intelligent and mobile creatures would even be fossilized because they woudl excape the initial sediment flows and their bodies would then float to the surface and never be fossilized (i.e. humans and greater apes).

If this is the case how is it that Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs and Mosasaurs drowned before people and other land animals even though they were perfectly adapted to live in the ocean.

P.s whilst checking the spellings of the reptiles for this post I found that there is a dinosaur called a Qantassaurus,