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Old 04-14-2008, 05:23 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by willravel
Two corrections:
1) I've seen the movie, so I know that the mammoths were removed from their natural environment, the tundra, and moved to the desert to be used for manual labor. It was a part of the story line that was made pretty clear. Not only that, but the mammoths were clearly dying from the heat. Many had lost a lot of hair, and were clearly near death.
2) Nowhere in the movie was it established that the pyramids were at Giza. There are dozens of pyramids around the world that are many thousands of years old that have nothing to do with Egypt.
Actual mistakes:
1) Horses... 12,000 years ago? Nope, modern horses are about 6,000 years old.
2) Walking from a frozen tundra to a rainforest to a desert in a few days? Sorry, but that kind of radical change of climate doesn't exist on Earth.
As a horse nerd, I have to correct you on your "modern horses are about 6000 years old" statement. Horses were DOMESTICATED around 6,000 years ago. Equus caballus is certainly older than that, definitely existing long before the end of the Pliestocene (10,000 years ago).

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The modern horse species, Equus caballus, appeared 630,000 to 320,000 years ago.
(from http://news.softpedia.com/news/Short...on-81754.shtml)
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