BS: Found: A New Dinosaur

Subject: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:28 PM

I found a lot of threads that mention dinosaurs but none where this news article fits. (Joe/Clones, if you wish to merge this thread with another, have at it)

Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating to me. I know there is NO evidence that human and dinosaur existences overlapped, but can you imagine??

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fossil found in South Dakota is that of a never before seen species of dinosaur, a horse-sized plant eater with spikes on its bony flat head, scientists said on Monday.

"When my colleagues saw a CAT scan of the new fossil, they tore up their family tree diagrams and said, 'Back to the drawing board!' ... We never suspected such a creature existed," said paleontologist Robert Bakker.

Discovery of the flat-headed member of the pachycephalosaur family changes the view of dinosaur history during the final days of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, showing that family trees were still evolving even as the entire dinosaur world was about to go extinct, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis said in announcing the find.

The nearly complete pachycephalosaur skull was donated to the museum by three amateur fossil hunters from Iowa who found it in 2003 while exploring the Hell Creek Formation in central South Dakota."


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Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:41 PM

I think it's so amazing that we make this kind of discovery, and learn so much about what was going on before we even existed! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: John Hardly
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:51 PM

It looks just like an Ivory Billed Woodpecker!

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 03 May 05 - 12:40 AM

hahhaha

OTOH, it's somehow reassuring that we still find things that shake the very foundations of our sciences.

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 May 05 - 10:12 AM

Love this kind of news!

But they still haven't found Jimmy Hoffa.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: GUEST
Date: 03 May 05 - 10:58 AM

New dinosaur - so what we've got a folk club full of them

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: freda underhill
Date: 03 May 05 - 11:13 AM

THANKS for this link, Ebbie - I spent some time an hour ago trying to find an image of this new find - of course, i should've checked mudcat!!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 05 - 11:48 AM

'Tain't no dinosaur -- that's jist a photo of two politicians runnin' fer office.

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 May 05 - 12:39 PM

What makes them think that just because these things had pointy heads that their big activity is to bang heads together with another of their species! The illustrator obviously hadn't read any Hrdy or Haraway.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 05 - 12:54 PM

Sounds like politicians ta me....

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: GUEST,The Shambles
Date: 03 May 05 - 06:05 PM

The Last Roar

Subject: RE: BS: Found: A New Dinosaur
From: mandoleer
Date: 03 May 05 - 06:50 PM

Never mind a whole club - our folkies are fine, it's the rest of the town that's fossilised...