Posted on 11/04/2017 7:12:50 PM PDT by ETL
A monstrous, meat-eating flying reptile that had a wingspan of a small airplane, could walk on all fours and stalked its prey on land has been found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
Fortunately for us humans, who would have made for a delightful midday snack, this pterosaur is dead. Long dead. Seventy million years dead.
With an approximately 36-foot wingspan, “It might have been this quite robust, formidable predator,” Mark Witton, an expert on pterosaurs at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., told National Geographic. “They seem to be feeding on things on the ground and are generalist in their ability to grab basically whatever they can fit in their beaks.”
Thankfully, that didn’t include humans, who weren’t around at the time. Scientists think this pterosaur had to settle for a diet of little dinosaurs. ..."
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Well, they say that dogs sense these things before we do!
Scripture is NOT a technical manual of the Universe. It never has been and never will be.
I’ll go with God. . .He created it all. . .spoke the universe into existence. The Bible isn’t a manual. . .it is the written Word of God Who is in charge of everyone’s next breath including mine.
Thats some big azz ugly chicken!
Kid: That doesn’t look very scary. More like a six-foot turkey.
Dr. Grant: A turkey, huh?
OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period.
You get your first look at this “six foot turkey” as you enter a clearing.
He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head.
And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he’ll lose you if you don’t move.
But no, not Velociraptor.
You stare at him, and he just stares right back.
And that’s when the attack comes.
Not from the front, but from the side [makes ‘whoshing’ sound], from the other two raptors you didn’t even know were there.
Because Velociraptor’s a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today.
And he slashes at you with this... [produces raptor claw from his pocket] ... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe.
He doesn’t bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no.
He slashes at you here, or here... [lightly ‘slashes’ across the kid’s body with the raptor claw]
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Oh, Alan...
Dr. Grant: ... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines.
The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you.
So you know, try to show a little respect.
Kid: [now shook up a bit] ...OK.
It only ate purple people?1 eyed, 1 horned, Flying Purple People Eater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx47qrH1GRs
Lol! Thanks, but I know the song. I just turned 60 last month. :)
I was just playing with the words in the song’s title. Because it could be read two different ways.
Purple People Eater:
1) The people eater was purple
or
2) the “purple people eater” ate purple people
It only ate purple people?1 eyed, 1 horned, Flying Purple People Eater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx47qrH1GRsPer Wikipedia,
"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached no. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, reached no. 12 overall in the UK singles chart and topped the Australian charts.Having been a teenager in 1958, I can add a bit more. The seed of the song was a popular silly joke:Q: "What has one eye, one horn, flies, and eats purple people?"Also, there are a couple of references in the song to then-recent hit songs: Short shorts and Tequila.A: "A one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.”
Just as I suspected - a punk kid who hasn’t even been to your 50th HS class reunion yet . . .
At this point, he can't get a date. Thanks bitt.
He looks unhealthy, but then I recall when I started running and went from 190 to about 160 (toed the starting line of the ‘83 Boston Marathon at 157 on a 6’1” frame) friends were asking me if I had cancer.
I said “Mister Purple People Eater, what’s your line?”
He said “Eatin’ purple people and it sure is fine;
But that’s not the reason that I came to land...
I wanna get a job in rock & roll band!”
From memory
Left will probably say that humans hunted them to extinction for Mongolian BBQ.
Dinos had an army of T Rexes to save them but the best they could muster was small arms.
LOL! That's funny!
Irrelevant
That would make one heck of a mcnugget.
Sorry, just now caught your post from this thread from several days ago. Someone else had posted something very similar later on in the thread.
Here was my reply...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3601795/posts?page=86#86
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