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Kelba, a Mysterious Beast Sprung from Many Evolutionary Lineages

      About 22 to 12.5 million years ago lived another rather mysterious beast called Kelba.[1]  Kelba has been classified all over the map.  Savage, who first identified the genus in 1965, placed it among the Oxyclaeninae,[2] a misunderstood family of early Cenozoic mammals who were first thought to be early carnivores related to dogs, cats, bears, weasels, walruses, etc, but later were believed to be among the creodonts, an unrelated group of meat eaters and omnivores, but then they were reshuffled to the broad grouping condylartha, which were ancestral to a multitude of entirely dissimilar mammals.[3]  Yet McKenna and Bell still placed it among the carnivores, albeit too uncertain for placement in a specific family.[4]  Cote et al suggest that Kelba might be placed within Afrotheria, thus related to the elephants, sea cows, and aardvarks.[5]  Van Valen classified Kelba in a family of insect eaters called Pantolestidae,[6] which were five toed condylarths.  Morales et al classified Kelba as a relative of the vivets,[7] which are nocturnal solitary hunters of the rainforest having a mode of life similar to cats.          

            Despite being preserved as several fossils, Kelba is a subject of perplexity.  Perhaps the beast's similarity to a variety of forms could be understandable if it were among the earliest mammals, before they diverged.  However, Kelba is too recent to be a primitive mammal.  Kelba lived in the range of 22 to 12.5 million years ago.  By then, the condylarths had already undergone their major adaptive radiations some 30-40 million years earlier.  Like Necrolestes, Kelba is a mystery animal, seemingly related to many species.

Perhaps the poor animal was the product of space alien perversion of the DNA, whereby it was frankensteined from multiple species.  Click to read more about fossil frankensteins.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.



[1] Cote, Susanne; Werdelin, Lars; Seiffert, Erik R; Barry, John C.  Additional Material for the Enigmatic Early Miocene Mammal Kelba and Its Relationship to the Order Ptolemaiida.  2007, The National Academy of Sciences of the USA, PNAS, 5510-5515, Vol 4, No 13

[2] Savage, R.  Fossil Mammals of Africa:  The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa.  1965, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 10, p 230-316

[3] Cote, Susanne; Werdelin, Lars; Seiffert, Erik R; Barry, John C.  Additional Material for the Enigmatic Early Miocene Mammal Kelba and Its Relationship to the Order Ptolemaiida.  2007, The National Academy of Sciences of the USA, PNAS, 5510-5515, Vol 4, No 13

[4] McKenna, Malcolm C; Bell, Susan K.  Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level.  1997, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, p 227

[5] Cote, Susanne; Werdelin, Lars; Seiffert, Erik R; Barry, John C.  Additional Material for the Enigmatic Early Miocene Mammal Kelba and Its Relationship to the Order Ptolemaiida.  2007, The National Academy of Sciences of the USA, PNAS, 5510-5515, Vol 4, No 13

[6] Van Valen, L.  New Paleocene Insectivores and Insectivore Classification.  1967, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol 135, p 217-284

[7] Morales, J; Pickford, M; Salesa, M; Soria, D.  The Systematic Status of Kelba (Savage, 1965), Kenyalutra (Schmidt-Kittler, 1987), and Ndamathaia (Jacobs et al., 1987): Viverridae, Mammalia and a Review of Early Miocene Mongoose-like Carnivores of Africa.  2000, Annales de Paleontologie, Vol 86, p  243-251

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