THERE ARE GIANTS ON EARTH
Rex Burress
In studying the stories of giant animals, there was even a biblical proclamation asserting “there were giants in those days [Genesis 6:1-4].” The passage doesn't specify what kind of giants, although giant humans were inferred, and Goliath was said to be nine feet, nine inches.
One could think that it was dinosaurs “in those days,” but we have pretty well established that the dinosaur era started about 250mya and lasted until about 65mya. The biblical era is thought to have lasted about 4000 years, ending with Jesus' death in A.D.30. It would seem insignificant considering the vast amount of individual lives—animal and man—that have appeared and died on Earth since the planet became habitable, but that is the scenario we try to comprehend today.
So life was microscopic in the living cells when life started expanding. Cell upon cell united, and creatures became larger. Years later trees grew large, insects grew large, sea life grew large. So during those days of giants, dinosaurs became prominent, right up to about 65mya when there was a collapse unto extinction for them, and the age of mammals rather rose to fill the void although on a smaller scale.
What happened to allow giants to flourish for a time? The aftermath has strained the scientific world in digging for evidence and seeking understanding, but one theory is that there was evidently more oxygen in the air, and dinosauric structure, somewhat like birds, grew hollow bones. The entire continent was rich with plant growth that enriched expanding diets.
The downfall came when the it got colder and great sheets of icy glaciers advanced, cutting off food, and air quantity levels dropped. If not for fossils, we would never have known dinosaurs existed, and their sudden disappearance hides other mysteries.
But enter new giants after dinosaurs! The Ice Bridge to Asia opened the way to the Americas—mammoths to mastodon giants settled in with smaller mammals of the new age, and bison replaced the Allosaurus monsters of the plains. Add some new carnivorous monsters though-- the human being! Homo sapiens was rather late in arriving.
Earth's oxygen continues to fluctuate, and one wonders how much longer our mightier beasts will have enough...enough air, enough land, enough space, enough food, and enough water! Will the pressed elephants, giraffes, hippopotamus, tigers, lions, rhinoceros and some 4150 other mammals be allowed enough room to roam on a planet controlled by real-estate and expanding cities? Oh yes; room is needed for the largest animal/mammal ever to have lived and continues to live—the Blue Whale! Want to speculate on why the blue whale became so large in the outer seas?
Whereas we are not sure about whether the larger dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded [or what color?, did some have feathers?, or how they slept], a whale is definitely a mammal, pumping five gallons of blood through the 400-pound heart at a stroke!
The reptilian crocodile is also a creature much dependent on water, possessing a long life-span in which they just keep on growing. Some of those salt-water crocs along the northern seacoast of Australia are giants near 20-feet long. Even on my trip to the Everglades I was cautioned about the big salt-water crocodiles in the brackish canals, but I only found brushy tunnels of alligators farther island.
The long, tough crocodilians are living fossils as evidence points to their kind [Protosuchus] living 200mya along with dinosaurs. Crocodiles are formidable beastly giants that have been able to hang around in tropical waterholes far longer than the march of mankind!
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