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   From: ansaman@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/16/2021 9:43 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote   
   > (in article ):   
   >   
   >> On 7/16/2021 8:11 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   >>> On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote   
   >>> (in article ):   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
      
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