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A Pint-Size Polar Predator
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| Wednesday, December 10, 2014
| Gemma Tarlach
Posted on 12/26/2014 7:25:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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subtitle, "The only tyrannosaur ever found outside temperate latitudes is barely two-thirds the size of a T. rex."
N. hoglundi was about 25 feet from teeth to tail. [Karen Carr]
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12/26/2014 7:25:45 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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12/26/2014 7:26:17 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Inspecting the fragments of skull, jaw and teeth more closely, they realized they had a tyrant on their hands.
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12/26/2014 7:30:02 AM PST
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Slyfox
(To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
To: Slyfox
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12/26/2014 7:55:02 AM PST
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Monkey Face
(It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. ~~ Mother Teresa)
To: SunkenCiv
Those arms and hands are almost human looking....kinda creepy.
To: SunkenCiv
When global cooling was wiping out the dinosaurs, strangely enough, parts of Alaska remained a warmer refuge far later than most northern latitudes.
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12/26/2014 8:09:21 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: SunkenCiv
After a cursory examination, he decided the predator was probably closely related to AlbertosaurusThe faithful butler for Batmanosaurus and the more diminutive Robinosaurus...
OK, a serious question, demonstrating how long it has been for me since high school paleozoology. The presumption back in my day was that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like their present-day descendants the gators and crocs. OT1H, a cold-blooded dinosaur in the Arctic would never get anywhere, but OTOH, a 25-foot-long warm-blooded carnivorous dinosaur in the Arctic would require more meat than would reasonably be available...
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12/26/2014 8:10:09 AM PST
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chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: SunkenCiv
70 million years ago where was that part of Alaska on our globe?
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12/26/2014 8:11:15 AM PST
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fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: SunkenCiv
Gratuitous Gary Larson Dinosaur Cartoon:
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posted on
12/26/2014 8:12:37 AM PST
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Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Slyfox
That would be a Tyrannosaurus Wrecks.
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12/26/2014 8:13:20 AM PST
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Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
To: fella
70 million years ago where was that part of Alaska on our globe? Not sure, but while I was in the Army in Fairbanks, the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) Archeology excavated Wooly Mammoth carcass and Flesh from permafrost that became exposed from a new highway cut.
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12/26/2014 8:37:34 AM PST
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BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: traderrob6
#5 Only if you do not trim your nails!!
To: traderrob6
Didn’t know they found one intact. Here all along I thought those were “artists renditions” drawn from 5 or 6 stone/bones fragments.
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12/26/2014 9:55:04 AM PST
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X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: SunkenCiv
0.6666 T rex is not exactly pint size
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12/26/2014 10:04:27 AM PST
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bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: fella
70 million years ago where was that part of Alaska on our globe? Hang on, I think I have a globe from back when I was growing up.
To: Larry Lucido
Where’s a tectonic plate geologist when you need one?
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12/26/2014 10:16:47 AM PST
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fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: SunkenCiv
Anytime I am faced with a Global Warming alarmist, I pose the question, “All that oil up in Alaska... how do you figure it got there?”
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12/26/2014 11:09:55 AM PST
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Rodamala
To: SunkenCiv
A ferocious predator, sure—but they couldn’t pass a bowl of candied yams.
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12/26/2014 11:15:57 AM PST
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: fella; Gamecock; F15Eagle
Yep! Best I can do is Marine Biologist. :-)
To: Rodamala
Heh...heh... there’s work from, well, quite a long time ago now, from around the Haughton Astrobleme — when the asteroid hit the climate was temperate, at least, and it didn’t get that way through drifting continents.
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12/26/2014 11:47:42 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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