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filthy
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But it was wise to keep a low profile, anyway. From out of Africa: New Meat-eating Dinosaur Duo From Sahara Ate Like Hyenas, Sharks
ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) — Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during the Cretaceous Period. Named Kryptops and Eocarcharia in a paper appearing this month in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, the fossils were discovered in 2000 on an expedition led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno.
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Even though these animals pre-dated T. rex by a not inconsiderable amount of geologic time, they appear to be at least as impressive as that great beast albeit a bit smaller (about the size of an elephant -- how the hell did they come up with that comparison? Elephants look like a box with something trying to escape, not a theropod dino! Go figger....).
I'm looking forward to more info on these, including statements that they were vegetarians until The Fall and only used those amazing teeth to chop lettuce. 
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Dude
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 08:37:39 [Permalink]
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Those teeth were obviously for cracking coconuts!
Ummm, yeah. coconuts!
How else would they get to drink in the sahara?
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chaloobi
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 08:52:56 [Permalink]
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T-Rex is over rated anyway.
I wonder how many species of dinosaur were lost forever? There's apparently record of a lot, and growing, but I'd bet there are many more that no record survived. Is that a pointless question since there's no way to know? |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 09:14:12 [Permalink]
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BTW, Filthy, a "Tryannosaur" is the only creature that will do Ann Coulter.
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filthy
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 09:18:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
T-Rex is over rated anyway.
I wonder how many species of dinosaur were lost forever? There's apparently record of a lot, and growing, but I'd bet there are many more that no record survived. Is that a pointless question since there's no way to know?
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There are about 300 genera and some 700 known species of dinosaur.
My own thought on the matter is that this is no more than a scratch on the surface. I think that there are a great many more undescribed dinos, most of which will remain anonymous. "Kilroy was here!"
And consider those reptiles that weren't dinosaurs and add them to the mix, and the unknown number becomes staggering.
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filthy
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 09:34:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
BTW, Filthy, a "Tryannosaur" is the only creature that will do Ann Coulter.
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Hehehehe....
What a sight that would be! Did you know that male dinos may well have had hemipenes?
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Risendemonx
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 10:53:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
What a sight that would be! Did you know that male dinos may well have had hemipenes?
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mmm... what a sexy sight that would be... Perhaps a moonscape is in order here?
 
By the way, my female iguana is learing at that photo, fil! |
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Dude
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 13:34:30 [Permalink]
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half said:
BTW, Filthy, a "Tryannosaur" is the only creature that will do Ann Coulter.
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I gues that would make JJ Walker a t-rex? He and mAnn Coultergeist have been an "item" for many years now (first heard him talk about dating her in a msnbc interview in 2004), and still appear to be going strong.
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filthy
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 Posted - 02/14/2008 : 13:49:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
half said:
BTW, Filthy, a "Tryannosaur" is the only creature that will do Ann Coulter.
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I gues that would make JJ Walker a t-rex? He and mAnn Coultergeist have been an "item" for many years now (first heard him talk about dating her in a msnbc interview in 2004), and still appear to be going strong.
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J.J. Walker has a hemipenes? I didn't know that! | By the way, my female iguana is learing at that photo, fil! |
You have a Ig! Great, but be glad it's a female. Over the years, I have had several big iguanas come through my little rehab operation including an aprox 6' male. That thing damned near took over the place! And he was horny all the time!
I finally made him a luv sock and that mellowed him out, a little, anyway. The sock went with him when he left to a new home.
I like iggys.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 17:55:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
T-Rex is over rated anyway.
I wonder how many species of dinosaur were lost forever? There's apparently record of a lot, and growing, but I'd bet there are many more that no record survived. Is that a pointless question since there's no way to know?
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Sightly off topic, but this reminds me of an event back in high school, quite some time ago.
I think it was an engineering science class, anyway, we were discussing the periodic table and the teacher said:
"There are 105* known elements."
One of my co-geniuses shoots up his hand and asks, you guessed it:
"How many unknown ones are there?"
It's not a pointless question, but not answerable in an accurate, quantitative sense.
* Or some nearby integer, 'twas a number of years ago. |
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filthy
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 18:07:30 [Permalink]
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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chaloobi
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Posted - 02/15/2008 : 07:28:17 [Permalink]
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| LOL - I love that. |
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Where the dread Tryannosaur was never seen...
