Posted on 03/24/2011 2:10:25 PM PDT by illiac
In before the Helen Thomas and Mooochelle pics...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian. The leaf-crunching animal — about the size of a large dog — lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Its upper canine teeth were nearly 5 inches long.
Such large teeth are more often the mark of a meat-eating animal, used to capture and kill prey.
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Now the anthropologist will tell us that this tiger was also gay!
how do they know its a vegetarian?
[Such large teeth are more often the mark of a meat-eating animal. . .]
May have eaten soy burgers and Morning Star Farms “sausage.”
It had a Peta membership card next to it.
How on earth would they know if it was a vegetarian? Did they find tofu pups and carrot stalks next to the body?
Interesting... However, a canine is not a feline.
Since we’ve had examples of dogs and even lions on vegetarian diets, I can only believe these ‘scientists’ are surprised because they are ignorant.
That’s not Helen Thomas.....LOL
IMPOSSIBLE. Evolution demands that the teeth must evolve to the requirements of the diet.
There shall be no more of this news that blows apart evolutionary doctrines...
We need better info....How about giving these people a $2 million dollar grant....good for one year and renewable.
At last....wonderful!!!
The only thing I can think of would be the size of the abdominal cavity as indicated by the rib cage structure. Large herbivores need a big capacity gut and a series of stomachs to digest enough vegetation to survive. Carnivores can be leaner, meaner, killing machines. The “artist concept” drawing sure looks like something that would just love to munch on a nice juicy chunk of meat.
Sometimes teeth are used as weapons, and the OTHER teeth fulfil the requirements of the diet. And how does this picture blow apart your "teeth doctrine"?
Oh, and the apparent extra joint in the fore limbs are especially novel. My daughter was drawing more believable dinosaurs when she was six.
sounds like the nutra... a nasty rodent...
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I guess the large fangs are for bringing down large veggie dino’s whom are unfortunate enough to still have food in their mouth when spotted, may be the case for the world’s first toothpick as well..
And I just noticed the best part ... “Archaeologists”??? I know reporters are ignorant and stupid, not to mention frequently drunk, but the folks studying this beastie would be Paleontologists or Paleozoologists. Unless this thing was found next to a cache of papyrus scrolls or clay tablets an archaeologist would pay it no mind.
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