The Ennedi Tiger

[DavidW]

Darius, sorry but that is nonsense.
There is research that shows that dust from the Sahara area around Chad blows to the Amazon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/31/rainforest_dust_link/
There is nothing available to suggest the Amazon had a spring in Chad. The Sahara had its own rivers, the beds for which can still be 'seen' under the Sahara.
The Amazon does not have a single source but is mostly fed by snow melt from the Andes.
There is evidence that before the Andes rose about 13 million years ago there was a lake in what is now northern south America, that outflowed E to W, that became blocked by the sudden uprising forcing flow in the W-E direction.
S.America and Africa have not been joined since Pangaea, about 300 MILLION years ago.
13 Million to 300 Million means your theory is crap by 287 Million years.

Also, the Ennedi Tiger is a cryptozoological animal, like BigFoot

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

i see you did not understand what that topic is about, but move on. Beside that pangea started to break apart in jurassic times. you should fix your time scale.

 

[ecoli73]

Darius, sorry but that is nonsense.
There is research that shows that dust from the Sahara area around Chad blows to the Amazon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/31/rainforest_dust_link/
There is nothing available to suggest the Amazon had a spring in Chad. The Sahara had its own rivers, the beds for which can still be 'seen' under the Sahara.
The Amazon does not have a single source but is mostly fed by snow melt from the Andes.
There is evidence that before the Andes rose about 13 million years ago there was a lake in what is now northern south America, that outflowed E to W, that became blocked by the sudden uprising forcing flow in the W-E direction.
S.America and Africa have not been joined since Pangaea, about 300 MILLION years ago.
13 Million to 300 Million means your theory is crap by 287 Million years.

Also, the Ennedi Tiger is a cryptozoological animal, like BigFoot

Yes, at the time the two were joined, there were no sophisticated mammals at all on earth. Back to the drawing board Darius.


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[DavidW]

The foundiing father of cryptozoology, Bernard Heuvelmans studied this animal closely in his book "On the Track of Unknown animals". He deduced it was exaggerated and garbled native tales of otters, based upon the sight of particularly ferocious otters killing their prey.

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

First off, let me apologize for the derail.

The reason I am so dubious is that the "true source" of the Amazon River has been "discovered" countless times over the last century. Because of the nature of river formation, the "source" or , more accurately, the "uppermost reaches" of a river may change location greatly over the course of that river's existence. The Amazon has undoubtedly had hundreds of different sources over its "lifetime". Considering the tectonic, volcanic, and erosional forces that have been in play over the millions years since the continents have separated it seems unlikely that the origin of the Amazon will ever be known with even a small degree of certainty.

I agree that it is an interesting topic, but I am very skeptical as well.

i think the niger bassin could also play a role in that topic

 

[DavidW]

Time frame ( and my typo) adjusted for you Darius

Rodinia existed over a billion years ago, broke up, and then Pannotia formed about 400 million years later. As Pannotia drifted apart, it formed slightly smaller supercontinents (Laurentia, Baltica, and Gondwana) that eventually slammed together to form Pangaea about 200 million years ago.

The most famous supercontinent had a good run, though — Pangaea didn’t really start to break up until the Early-Middle Jurassic Period (175 million years ago)

Pangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea ( /pænˈdʒiːə/ pan-jee-ə;[1]) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago[2] and beginning to rift around 200 million years ago

200 Million - 13 Million = 187 Million ( years )

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

Yes, at the time the two were joined, there were no sophisticated mammals at all on earth. Back to the drawing board Darius.


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i don't get your point, since the existance of a cryptid and the connection of africa and latin america have nothing to do with each other. where in my original post did you find that connection?

 

[DariusAmurdarja]

Time frame ( and my typo) adjusted for you Darius

Rodinia existed over a billion years ago, broke up, and then Pannotia formed about 400 million years later. As Pannotia drifted apart, it formed slightly smaller supercontinents (Laurentia, Baltica, and Gondwana) that eventually slammed together to form Pangaea about 200 million years ago.

The most famous supercontinent had a good run, though — Pangaea didn’t really start to break up until the Early-Middle Jurassic Period (175 million years ago)

Pangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea ( /pænˈdʒiːə/ pan-jee-ə;[1]) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago[2] and beginning to rift around 200 million years ago

200 Million - 13 Million = 187 Million ( years )

ok and your point is? i don't get it? i don't say that the existance of. felid cryptid has anything to do with the seperation or the amazon.

 

[DavidW]

My point is that the animal doesn't exist, so trying to torture geological history ( the Amazon had a spring in Chad) into making its existence more arguable is just BS.
Thank you for playing, please try again later

 

[coyotethug]

So lets bring this back to a fish site for evidence of the prehistoric connection of the congo and amazon systems. Aren't these the only two systems in which the Characiformes (tetras and their close relatives) are found? Seems like good evidence that both were the same system to me.

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