Posted on 09/09/2010 5:30:31 PM PDT by decimon
Spanish palaeontologists have uncovered a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feather follicles.
The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, located the fossils near Cuenca, central Spain.
They named the reptile Concavenator corcovatus, meaning "meat eater from Cuenca with a hump". The type of dinosaur that was found is known as a theropod.
Theropods are mainly known from the ancient southern landmass, Gondwana.
Over time, Gondwana and other ancient landmasses broke up, forming the continents we see today.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Spanish fly ping.
Here's to the camel's libido,
And here's to the thoughts that he thinks,
As he stands on the banks of the Nile
And tries to make love to the Sphinx.
But the Sphinx's posterior portions
Are sunk in the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the hump on the camel's back
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
There was green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born
The loveliest of all was the unicorn
I have 19 chickens. They are vicious and I have little doubt that they descended from the rulers of the earth. LOL Just be glad that we are much larger than a chicken.
There once was a man from the Nile...
IBTHTP
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 Veloci-chicken. 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, [from the other two 'chickens you didn't even know were there. Because Veloci-chicken's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today.
LMAO.....
Ptarmigans come from dinosaurs.
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You need some sort of a fifth order probabilistic miracle for a flight feather to evolve. In real life, it can’t happen.
Quasimodo dino leaves experts grappling for a hunch
http://www.physorg.com/news203170496.html
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