125 million year old Flying Squirrel

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Originally Posted by Afrobean

Bat?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure they decided that some dinosaurs definitely flew and birds came from dinosaurs. So either way, mammals didn't really come first.

ps Don't try to bring religious issues into things like this. Science says that carbon dating is relatively accurate, so your religious views must be checked at the door and not stated as fact without any evidence.

We can't really trust carbon dating anyways. No one really knows if the process that carbon dating tracks doesn't speed up or slow down at some point. Tha fact it was "updated" 25 or 30 years ago proves my point. We cannot really begin to figure out how accurate carbon dating is unless we take something and carbon-date it every year from the first to see if it is really accurate.

In a nutshell, carbon dating isn't reliable, so anything we don't have documented with some sort of dating system, cannot be dated. This squirrel could be 125 million years old or 125 years old for all we know. There are too many variables for us to consider before we get real rock-solid proof.