Life-size: Nate Carroll, left, and Liz Freedman, right pose with a complete reconstruction of the neck vertebra of an Alamosaurus at Montana State University
1 posted on
12/10/2011 6:55:51 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
“Alamo! Supper!”
Oh Gosh, what have I done!
3 posted on
12/10/2011 7:01:21 PM PST by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, then he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: SunkenCiv
4 posted on
12/10/2011 7:02:09 PM PST by
stormer
To: SunkenCiv
The New York Times has bones?
5 posted on
12/10/2011 7:08:14 PM PST by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: SunkenCiv
The enormity of the new bones puts Alamosaurus in the same size league as other giant sauropods from South America, including Argentinosaurus which weighed about 70 tons, and is widely considered to be the biggest dinosaur of all. Amazing. For comparison, a yard of concrete weights 4000 lbs. A large concrete mixer on the road hauls 10 yards. 40,000 lbs = 20 tons. The concrete mixer, unloaded, weights 30,000 pds = 15 tons. Total = 35 tons. This beast weighted as much as two FULLY loaded concrete mixers....
6 posted on
12/10/2011 7:08:27 PM PST by
ScreamingFist
(Quiet the Idiot)
To: SunkenCiv
8 posted on
12/10/2011 7:47:50 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit)
To: SunkenCiv
9 posted on
12/10/2011 7:50:38 PM PST by
DFG
(Proud Barbarian)
To: SunkenCiv
But a 2009 study...led to discovery of a femur thought to belong to an adult that was still growing.After all these years? No wonder it's so huge!
10 posted on
12/10/2011 8:02:30 PM PST by
Hunton Peck
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