Re: World Snake Day
ansaman <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:42:20 -0400
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On 7/16/2021 9:43 PM, David Dalton wrote: > On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote > (in article <[email protected]>): > >> On 7/16/2021 8:11 PM, David Dalton wrote: >>> On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote >>> (in article <[email protected]>): >>> >>>> On 7/16/2021 4:49 PM, David Dalton wrote: >>>>> And note that when people refer to St. Patrick driving >>>>> snakes out of Ireland that really means he drove >>>>> paganism out of Ireland, so World Snake Day >>>>> I think can mean World Pagan Day.:-) >>>> >>>> There really ARE no snakes in Ireland unless >>>> they are in cages. >>> >>> Yes, but there never were any. >>> >>> The same is true for Newfoundland. >> >> NEVER? I checked. You are right. >> Not even in the fossil record. > > Ha, I wasn’t thinking that far back, and allowing > for continental drift, which I should have since > I am a geophysicist by training. > The sources involved said that Great and Ireland were both scrubbed clean by glaciers which are very inhospitable to reptiles. The seas rose, isolating Ireland before any continental species could migrate. England had a land bridge known as Doggerland which was partly existent in historic times and is now submerged. England was repopulated by several snake species. -- **The AnsaMan** In a recent self-evaluation: "One of the greatest minds produced since the invention of the electric nose picker!"