Posted on 02/01/2011 11:58:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For fossil hunters, it represents one of those breakthrough moments.
A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.
Writing in Science magazine, the palaeontologists make some broad statements about differences in pterosaurs, including the observation that only males sported a head-crest.
David Unwin, a palaeobiologist in the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, was part of the research team.
He told the BBC the discovery was astonishing: "If somebody had said to me a few years back that we would find this kind of association, I would just have laughed and said, 'yeah, maybe in a million years', because these sorts of things are incredibly rare."
Pterosaurs, also sometimes referred to as pterodactyls, dominated the skies in the Mesozoic Era, 220-65 million years ago. Although reptiles like the dinosaurs were plodding on the ground below them, they were not actually dinosaurs themselves - a common misconception.
This particular specimen has been dated to about 160 million years ago.
It was found by Junchang Lü and colleagues and excavated from sedimentary rocks in the famous fossil-hunting grounds of Liaoning Province in China. Liaoning has yielded many of the great finds in recent years, including a series of feathered dinos that have transformed thinking on bird evolution.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
last thursday-ism.
Maybe God created everything last Thursday with a made up history and false memories.
It wouldn’t be beyond HIS power.
But would it matter?
If the “fake” evidence that the world existed before last Thursday is all internally consistent and allows for explanation and useful prediction - then the “reality” that it all started last Thursday is of absolutely no practical use.
Similarly, if the “fake” evidence that the Earth is billions of years old is all internally consistent and allows for explanation and useful prediction - then the “reality” that it all started a few thousand years ago is of absolutely no practical use.
You have no earthly idea what time relations God referred to. We cannot begin to fathom His greatness and wonder. God is so magnificent that humans cannot begin to comprehend his vast universe and beyond. Just some of the views through the Hubble telescope reveals the enormous universe in terms we can’t even grasp.
Sure looks like the outline of a crest in those photographs. Maybe both male and female had crests? Or was this a male guarding the egg?
Ptero-papa.
it would be a thursday. i never could get the hang of thursdays.
“...and a particular fondness for round fuzzy hats.”
Well played!
More like the entire top of the skull is missing. There is enough of the beak to show no crest, though.
Why’d that pterosaur cross the road?
And your proof of the Earth’s age is?
All I ever see are pieces of jaws and skulls
How come women fossils are always in pieces and dinosaurs are always in one piece??
Doesn`t make any sense at all...
Looks like 2 entirely different geological processses occurring--
Sounds fishy to me...
And they both got govered in mud at the same time right? What could do such a thing?
``The first of Ardi’s bones, a single tooth, was discovered in 1992, not far from where Lucy’s skeleton was buried in the fossil-rich Afar Rift of Ethiopia. Later, more than 100 other pieces, including bits of a skull, hand, foot and pelvis, were eased out of the volcanic soil and reassembled.``
www2.ljworld.com/r/303/506653/
Takes me back to my 3 labors when I declared “I have changed my mind. I don’t want it.”
Because chickens had not evolved yet, you silly goose.
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There are some dinosaur bones in the Chicago Museum of Natural History that we know the exact age of down to the month. Here’s how I know. I asked the guard there how old the bones were and he said 73 million, four years, and six months. When I asked him how he knew their age so precisely, he said, “Well, the dinosaur bones were 73 million years old when I started working here 4 and 1/2 years ago.
>> This is a pro God site, and God tells us that the earth is NOT 160 million years old.<<
So you put God into a box that is only 6700-7000 years? You do understand that He existed long before that don’t you? Do some research on the gap between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2. It will be enlightening to you if you pray for guidance before you do the research and then listen.
Wow, that makes me want to go to your church.
Then what did the Colsandersausrus eat?
Oh cmon man, of course he ate the other white meat, Mrs Sanderasaurus.
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