Oxford rather not speak about the rate of extinction going on England today - but then it's ok to romanticize over long gone hippos and their few bones recovered. Duh What a pathetic institution in essence...
Hmmm . . . Hippos can't swim. They run along the bottom. Can't do that across the Strait of Dover without air tanks. Just how low WERE sea levels at the time(s) in question (1 million years BC* and 100,000 years back)? Warm climate usually means higher sea levels, not lower ones. *The title of a typically awful fantasy movie, notable only for starring Raquel Welch
the English Channel as is, has only existed as a body of water for circa 7,000 years or there abouts. A landbridge existed prior to that as revealed by the copious amonts of Mammoth fossils often dredged up or even paleolithic amd neolithic lithic tools. Have a read about Doggerland which was roughly where the North Sea is now. A large river ran down the centre of the 'Channel' and emptied at a delta between what is now Brittany and Cornwall or there abouts.
Thank you for a great crash course on hippos in Europe, Neil!
You can add Hippos in Folkestone to the map too! Collections at Folkestone Museum, Dover Roman Painted House and possibly Bristol too.
Any Crocodiles?
Hippos are.very successful things...
Oxford rather not speak about the rate of extinction going on England today - but then it's ok to romanticize over long gone hippos and their few bones recovered. Duh What a pathetic institution in essence...
Hmmm . . . Hippos can't swim. They run along the bottom. Can't do that across the Strait of Dover without air tanks. Just how low WERE sea levels at the time(s) in question (1 million years BC* and 100,000 years back)? Warm climate usually means higher sea levels, not lower ones.
*The title of a typically awful fantasy movie, notable only for starring Raquel Welch
the English Channel as is, has only existed as a body of water for circa 7,000 years or there abouts. A landbridge existed prior to that as revealed by the copious amonts of Mammoth fossils often dredged up or even paleolithic amd neolithic lithic tools. Have a read about Doggerland which was roughly where the North Sea is now. A large river ran down the centre of the 'Channel' and emptied at a delta between what is now Brittany and Cornwall or there abouts.