From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	Re: genetically-reconstructed brontosaurus
Date:	Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:37:24 -0500 (EST)

>> Shadowrun is a world where magic exists and in 2011, quite a few formally
>> held opinions on how the Earth worked had to be changed. Maybe magic has
>> messed up carbon dating... If we have dinosaur bones that are millions of
>> years old, why don't we have and Troll or Orc skeletons from however many
>> thousands of years it's been since the last magic age? Where are the dragon
>> bones? Ok, Dunkelzahn mentioned some in his will... So why weren't they
>> found before the awakening? How about all the other paranormal creatures?
>> Where are all their bones?
>
>Complete skeletons are very rare, and who says that what we call, for
>example, Neanderthals weren't orks who lived hundreds of thousands of
>years ago?

Neanderthals sisn't have tusks.

>Or that the bones we assume are of children, in fact belonged to dwarfs?

The bone structure of a dwarf is a bit different than that of a child.

Of course when the mana "goes away" maybe even fossils change back?


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