| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:No ice at the North Pole. | |
| Posted by: | Viv Griffith | |
| Date/Time: | 27/06/08 19:42:00 |
| Sorry. I was wrong. It was a hippopotamus. "Large-scale building and excavation work in London since the 19th Century has revealed a large number of fossil mammals from the Quaternary gravels and sands that underlie much of the City. These include a 170,000-year-old giant ox (auroch) from Knightsbridge, woolly mammoth fossils from The Strand and woolly rhinoceros remains from under Battersea Power Station. Perhaps the most famous fossils are the remains of Hippopotamus found during excavations in Trafalgar Square. These, along with other bones and shells, were recorded from one of the Thames terrace deposits (the Taplow Terrace) that underlie the site and which have been dated to the Ipswichian interglacial (approximately 100,000 years old)." http://www.english-nature.org.uk/Special/geological/sites/area_ID14.asp |