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Post by thetyrantlizard on Jan 11, 2007 6:14:25 GMT -5
They have discovered the first remains of Stegosaurus ungulatus to be found outside of North America. This proves that in the Jurassic heyday North America and Europe were joined.
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Jan 11, 2007 11:23:05 GMT -5
See, see, it is still possible for a Carno to be found in Alberta.  |
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Jan 17, 2007 5:31:47 GMT -5
Dino news, in a roundabout way--there is a study that shows carnivorous mammals can't get larger than 1000 kg for various physiological reasons. The dinosaur part comes when they state that the energy needs of a 1000 kg predatory mammal like a bear would equal that of a tyrannosaurus. Since t-rexes definitely weighed far more than 1000 kg, that means t-rex would have lower energy needs per pound of weight, which means that their metabolism would be slower, which means that they are not warm-blooded--which means that they are not overgrown chickens, which means that they had no feddurs  |
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Feb 13, 2007 5:57:56 GMT -5
Remember a few years ago when they discovered Guanlong in China, a crested theropod that was supposed to be an ancestral tyrannosaurid, which artists therefore restored with more feathers than a chicken? Well, it turns out according to the latest issue of Prehistoric Times that it has nothing to do with tyrannosaurs at all--Guanlong is a juvenile monolophosaurus. Good news, now there's one less feathered dino to contend with Look at how these paleontologists operate, so desperate are they to prove their fallacious theory that birds are dinosaurs--first they announce to the world that it is a t-rex ancestor, then they restore it with feathers--WITHOUT anyone actually ANALYZING the fossils to study exactly what they've found.  Reminds me of the kerfuffle about archaeoraptor, the Piltdown chickenraptor. |
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Feb 17, 2007 2:07:33 GMT -5
US Customs agents have seized a fossilized raptor nest that was sold in auction in the US for 420K. It is illegal to import any fossil from China, so what they did was to smuggle the dino nest into Taiwan, then ship it to the US. The raptor nest will be returned to China. This is why fossil 'finds' from China should always be suspect. If they are sold outside China, there is no question that they are illegal, whether they are genuine or not. The temptation for instant loot is too intense for proper scientific objective study. In this case the eggs were so well-preserved that the embryos could be seen. Funny, nobody mentioned that the embryos had fuddurs. Probably because there were none. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_re_us/dinosaur_eggs |
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Mar 4, 2007 0:11:13 GMT -5
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Mar 4, 2007 1:24:55 GMT -5
Heard that on the radio, pretty cool. |
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Mar 19, 2007 4:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Mar 19, 2007 9:42:28 GMT -5
Sounds interesting, do they know what kinds of creatures?
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Mar 19, 2007 13:27:30 GMT -5
Prehistoric gar fish, plesiosaurs, etc. were mentioned, but those discoveries were made a few years ago, they didn't mention more recent ones.
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Mar 20, 2007 20:39:05 GMT -5
A burrowing dinosaur that cared for its hatchlings has been uncovered. It is the hypsilophodontid Orcytodromeus, found in Montana in a burrow, which it apparently was able to dig itself. (It used its snout as a shovel and its strong forearms.) Remains were found of an adult with two half-grown juveniles.
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Post by delta on Mar 22, 2007 14:15:21 GMT -5
plus it was found in burrows
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Mar 22, 2007 14:31:01 GMT -5
plus it was found in burrows As TTL already stated. |
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Post by delta on Mar 23, 2007 14:07:00 GMT -5
oh my bad i was rushing
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Mar 26, 2007 2:48:17 GMT -5
A skull of Tyrannosaurus (=tarbosaurus) bataar sold for 276,000 USD at auction  |
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Reminds me of the kerfuffle about archaeoraptor, the Piltdown chickenraptor.
