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Newfound Dino Looks Like the Creepy Love Child of a Turkey and an Ostrich
Live Science ^ | July 27, 2017 | Laura Geggel

Posted on 07/28/2017 5:24:23 AM PDT by C19fan

A Chinese farmer has discovered the remains of a dinosaur that could have passed for the ostrich-like cassowary in its day, sporting the flightless bird's head crest and long thunder thighs, indicating it could run quickly, just like its modern-day lookalike, a new study finds.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology

1 posted on 07/28/2017 5:24:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Some say that chickens are direct descendants of dinosaurs.


2 posted on 07/28/2017 5:48:11 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

I think some have begun to question that; something to do with the way birds breathe, in part:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192019/Why-birds-NOT-descended-dinosaurs.html


3 posted on 07/28/2017 6:00:30 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: C19fan

B.A.D.D.


4 posted on 07/28/2017 6:12:26 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: C19fan

5 posted on 07/28/2017 6:20:09 AM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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To: C19fan

Except that the feathers in the picture are fanciful or they would have been mentioned in the text. it was shaped like a bird therefore it had all the appurtenances of a bird. That is not scientific.


6 posted on 07/28/2017 6:21:12 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: C19fan; All

Wonder what they tasted like.


7 posted on 07/28/2017 6:27:42 AM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: GSWarrior

8 posted on 07/28/2017 6:48:29 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: j.argese
Wonder what they tasted like.

Chicken, of course!

9 posted on 07/28/2017 8:42:28 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: C19fan

“thunder thighs”?
Hillary had to stop wearing corduroy jeans in the `70s. The noise was deafening.


10 posted on 07/28/2017 8:46:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: JimRed

You know, kinda had to ask


11 posted on 07/28/2017 8:59:40 AM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: Don Corleone

Some say that chickens are direct descendants of dinosaurs.
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Rhode Island Reds tastes like a stegosaurus.


12 posted on 07/28/2017 11:44:49 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from 7/28/2017 . Thanks C19fan.

13 posted on 10/31/2018 7:09:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: tumblindice
She was just a victim of circus pants.


14 posted on 10/31/2018 7:13:14 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire...)
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