ARCHAEOLOGY: Glimpse into Pre-Flood animal kingdom

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Genesis 7:22

"For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and analyzing fossils in Africa to better understand the Permian, a geologic period that....ended with the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history.

“This mass extinction was nothing short of a cataclysm for life on Earth,...,” said Christian Sidor, a UW professor of biology and

curator of vertebrate paleontology at the UW Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture.

The series highlights recent findings about the wide variety of animals that once inhabited Permian Africa, including saber-toothed predators, burrowing herbivores, and a large amphibian resembling a salamander.

All these finds were excavated in three basins across southern Africa: the Ruhuhu Basin in southern Tanzania, the Luangwa Basin in eastern Zambia, and the Mid-Zambezi Basin in southern Zambia.

For decades, scientists’ best understanding of the Permian, the Great Dying and the start of the Mesozoic came from the Karoo Basin in South Africa, which contains a near-complete fossil record of periods before and after the mass extinction.

"The number of specimens we’ve found in Zambia and Tanzania is so high and their condition is so exquisite that we can make species-level comparisons to what paleontologists have found in South Africa,” said Sidor." 

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On the Streets of Babylon: Stampede Leads to 20 Dead on the Streets....

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to have been a "Stampede" Leaving 20 Dead on the Streets of Babylon ....

"Some 20 people have died in a stampede at a church service in a stadium in Tanzania, officials have said.

Hundreds of people attended the prayer service on Saturday evening led by a popular preacher in the town of Moshi, near Mount Kilimanjaro.
Pastor Boniface Mwamposa, who heads the Arise and Shine Ministry and calls himself “the Apostle”, reportedly poured “holy oil” on the ground, prompting the crowd to surge forward in the hopes of touching it.
The rush to be anointed by the oil led to people crushing one another, resulting in the deaths of 20 people and 16 people being injured, Reuters reported.
Commissioner Kippi Warioba said five of those killed were children, and there were concerns the death toll could rise."
Independent