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Forget what you thought dinosaurs looked like — this adorable bird–lizard just changed the game
Business Insider ^
| 9/15/2016
| L. Dodgson
Posted on 09/16/2016 11:45:38 AM PDT by JimSEA
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![](http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/57da85e3dd08950e618b466b-533/parrotlizard.jpg)
The geology of parts of China have remarkable fossils of certain time periods. Much like the Burgess Shale in Canada has of the Cambrian period.
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posted on
09/16/2016 11:45:39 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Is this the one Trump’s kid killed?
/s
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posted on
09/16/2016 11:48:15 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: JimSEA
when my kid was in college, the class was challenged to attempt to prove that a T Rex was NOT covered in feathers.
He said the class could not. The bone structure was very akin to birds. Same with some other dinosaurs (I can’t remember which, and it was many years ago).
I was fascinated by his story of the class because I was brought up to believe that all dinosaurs were lizard like, but that is not the case, they were more bird-like in DNA he told me.
Anyways, fascinating, thanks for the article (not something I usually find here at FR), it’s great!
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posted on
09/16/2016 11:48:41 AM PDT
by
Bubba Gump Shrimp
(A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
To: JimSEA
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:01:06 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: treetopsandroofs
...Is this the one Trumps kid killed?...
No. That one was huge.
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:03:28 PM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prison 2016)
To: JimSEA
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:09:19 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: BeauBo
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:10:33 PM PDT
by
CygnusXI
To: CygnusXI
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:25:28 PM PDT
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GingisK
To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
I guess T-Rex’s might have has an appetite for rotisserie roasted or fried human, eh? Maybe nature turned the tables on ‘em...
To: JimSEA
They're really adorable . . . . until they eat you . . . .
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:46:55 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: JimSEA
To: BeauBo
I have thought that the concept of “cuteness” evolved in some species to slow down the slaughter of the young. Of course, I have no proof or even support other than anecdotal and I’m many creatures the father or even the mother in fewer species make a feast on their offspring.
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posted on
09/16/2016 12:58:31 PM PDT
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JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Speaking of dinosaurs:
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posted on
09/16/2016 1:02:39 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: JimSEA
I like the backdrop of the picture. Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale, aka “scouring rush) and ferns. Both very ancient plants.
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posted on
09/16/2016 1:03:00 PM PDT
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USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: USMCPOP
Yes, it’s well done and we still have them. Remarkable.
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posted on
09/16/2016 1:47:32 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
I have a pot of Equisetum growing out back. First time I ever saw any was right by the New River out near Blacksburg, VA. 40 years ago. Dinosaur plant for sure.
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09/16/2016 1:52:20 PM PDT
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USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: All
Forget what you thought dinosaurs looked like.
Because we don’t know!
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posted on
09/16/2016 2:19:41 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2016)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
That’s EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw this thread!
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posted on
09/16/2016 2:22:41 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: JimSEA
Dinosaur marketing is always interesting.
To: JimSEA
Except for some hypothetical webbing between the hind leg and tail, that’s pretty much how psittacosaurs have always been pictured. I almost questioned the lack of quills... but then I realized they were just blending into the grass.
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09/16/2016 2:39:56 PM PDT
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dangus
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