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Bones with stories… the bones may be real but the story (maybe?) constructed to get headlines and funding may not be. As we have learned with Global Warming (Climate Change when it gets cold)… “Scientists” can get very creative when pursuing money, fame and ideology gets confused with science. Justathought and a small measure of skepticism, which used to be part of what was once known as the scientific method!


9 posted on 03/06/2014 7:09:55 AM PST by FiddlePig
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From the article: ""Torvosaurus gurneyi was obviously a super predator feeding on large prey like herbivorous dinosaurs," Hendrickx said.

That's information aplenty yielded from some bones in the dirt. How do they know it was a predator and not a scavenger? How do they know it was not an omnivore? How do they know it was not strictly a herbivore, for that matter.

The there is this gem from the article: "...and may have been covered with an early type of feather, Hendrickx said."

It may have been covered with hair or a leotard, for all we know. Conjecture and guesses.

11 posted on 03/06/2014 8:22:00 AM PST by jimmyray
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We don’t need no steeenking science; we need grants!
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22 posted on 03/06/2014 10:14:03 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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