Neat pictures of the fossil at link.
What palaeontologists do in their private time is their own business, but I really don't need to hear about it.
Let the Helen Thomas joke begin.
I guess these guys are into PILFs.
I wonder how
all these millions of fossils worldwide
were so rapidly formed
with no tissue decay
before the fossilization process
could occur............................
FR continues to plunge headlong into a pit of blasphemous hell by allowing articles with un-Godly and ridiculous references to a multi-million year-old earth to be posted. This is a pro God site, and God tells us that the earth is NOT 160 million years old.
The female fossil partially prepared (A). After being fully prepared (B), the egg is clear to see (red circle)
It was the males which carried a crest, the latest research published in Science magazine suggests
Still begs the question, Which came first, the pterosaur or the egg?
“Life finds a way.”
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.``
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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.
Any finds in China whether fossil, archaeological or technological I tend to view with suspicion.
It would be a very cool find. If it were real.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.
Ewwwwww, that's just sick and plain dirty.
How can they be sure they weren't like penguins where the male also spends time incubating the egg?
I always thought the way to tell the sex of a pterosaur was to tell it a joke. If he laughs it's a male, but if she laughs it's a female.
“The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time. “
Translation: It allowed the researchers to pronounce another assumption.
The male of some species of birds (such as penguins) also sit on their eggs while their mate is away looking for food. What scientific evidence do they have that this bird is not male?