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Post by tomhet on Apr 1, 2008 21:06:13 GMT -5
So Brontosaurus is a valid genus--I'm not just a fuddy-duddy after all Well technically speaking, 'Brontosaurus' doesn't hold that subversive flavour anymore ;D |
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Post by Señor Pilty on Apr 1, 2008 21:09:54 GMT -5
*Sigh* I can't use the term 'brontosaurus' just to vex palaeontologists and pedantic eight-year-olds now  ;D |
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Post by Señor Pilty on Apr 23, 2008 21:35:23 GMT -5
Perhaps the final nail in the coffin for the cockamamie theory that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, if I understand the study correctly--unlike mammals, they (along with birds and lizards) have lost the gene that produces "brown fat" in mammals (which allows, among other things, bear hibernation) and thus could NOT generate their own body heat. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423171524.htm |
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Post by Señor Pilty on Apr 24, 2008 14:11:31 GMT -5
More junk science from the dino-bird people: there is a new study out that suggests tyrannosaurs are closely related to chickens. As usual, the media jumped all over it, although they completely ignored a study questioning their previous molecular analysis. The same study found that somehow anole lizards are closely related to mammals, which is of course a mistake. So why then should we believe the same study when it says that tyrannosaurs are birds? This is of course part and parcel of the current ideological bent that says birds are dinosaurs. All contrary evidence, no matter how crucial or obvious, is ignored, while dubious evidence (patched and peeled microraptors) is accepted as genuine. What balderdash. And out of the numerous articles about this alleged discovery of the rex-chicken link, only ONE mentioned the anole-mammal anomaly, thus giving a wholly misleading impression on the accuracy of their findings. www.newscientist.com/article/dn13772-t-rex-confirmed-as-great-granddaddy-of-all-birds-.htmlDon't forget, the next time somebody says that there is 'evidence' tyrannosaurs are birds, you can mention the same study says lizards are mammals  |
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Post by Señor Pilty on Apr 24, 2008 14:37:19 GMT -5
The lead 'scientist' [sic] of the study claims that mistakes, such as the anole being a mammal, are common when working with limited protein sequences. So what right does he have to proclaim the tyrannosaur-chicken finding from this same study is any more accurate?
The stupid media unfortuantely, brainwashed for years by the dino-bird propaganda spewing out of the palaeontological establishment, have swallowed this nonsense. Where were they when the previous study about tyrannosaurs being birds was soundly refuted because the results actually showed tyrannosaurs were newts?
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Post by Señor Pilty on Apr 24, 2008 19:27:15 GMT -5
Apparently we are supposed to accept the veracity of his study when it comes to talking about purported 'organic' compounds from a 66-million year old tyrannosaurus, but we should blithely ignore the results when it comes to a non-extinct lizard whose genome he could sequence if he wanted to? Gosh |
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Post by Señor Pilty on May 21, 2008 14:12:28 GMT -5
A fossil called Gerobatrachus has been found to be the missing link or transitional fossil between the temnospondyls and the frogs and salamanders. Modern toads, frogs, newts, and salamanders therefore are all descended from the temnospondyls. This finding also is yet another blow to the concept of molecular clock dating of evolutionary developments, since it shows frogs and salamanders diverged much more recently than molecular data estimates indicate.
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Post by tomhet on May 22, 2008 12:41:37 GMT -5
^^^Interesting. I thought they had diverged early  |
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Post by Señor Pilty on May 24, 2008 3:16:23 GMT -5
Summary of dinosaur news this week:
1. They found troodon teeth in Alaska which showed that Alaskan troodons were much larger than their counterparts in the Lower 48 states.
2. They found the first ankylosaur tracks from the Jurassic period (Morrison formation).
3. They found sauropod & ornithopod tracks in the Arabian peninsula.
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Post by richard on May 24, 2008 18:11:16 GMT -5
Summary of dinosaur news this week: 1. They found troodon teeth in Alaska which showed that Alaskan troodons were much larger than their counterparts in the Lower 48 states. smarter I suppose as well |
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Post by Señor Pilty on May 27, 2008 23:55:35 GMT -5
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Post by Señor Pilty on May 27, 2008 23:58:15 GMT -5
Oops, my bad. There is an illustration of a quetzalcoatlus "procuring" a titanosaur |
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Post by Thorondor 33 on May 28, 2008 9:53:42 GMT -5
How odd and uneducated.
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Post by Señor Pilty on May 28, 2008 14:39:10 GMT -5
John Long has discovered a placoderm (Materpiscis) with her offpsring attached by an umbilical cord, which proves that placoderms gave birth to live young.
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Post by tomhet on May 28, 2008 22:23:42 GMT -5
^^^ Oh my *quietly soils pants*
Is there a link I could check?
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;D
