So, did the U.K. have a sudden balmy spell, or were hippos deposited by alien spacecraft? Whatever the answer is, it is not “things carry on the same for tens of thousands of years”…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think:
\nOnce upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers.
\nHippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year….
\nPretty much there are only two valid reasons for hippos living historically in the British Isles:
\n1) Climate was much warmer
\n2) Hippos adjusted to cold weather for a while….
\nAccording to the Daily Mail:
\n1.8 million years ago, giant hippos were a common sight across Europe – even making it to the Norfolk Broads.<\/p>\n
So, did the U.K. have a sudden balmy spell, or were hippos deposited by alien spacecraft? Whatever the answer is, it is not “things carry on the same for tens of thousands of years”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-megafauna","category-pole-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}