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180-million-year-old 'sea monster' found with skin and blubber [Ichthyosaur]
FoxNews.com/Science ^
| Dec 6, 2018
| Chris Ciaccia
Posted on 12/06/2018 11:50:55 AM PST by ETL
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12/06/2018 11:50:55 AM PST
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ETL
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12/06/2018 11:51:48 AM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
The top illustration in your post reminds me of a Dolphin.
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posted on
12/06/2018 11:53:14 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: ETL
Let’s clone it and open a theme park.
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posted on
12/06/2018 11:56:39 AM PST
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2banana
(Were you)
To: ETL
I hereby decree that the term “blubber” shall from henceforth be used more frequently in the common parlance.
To: ETL
They found Rosie O’Donnell’s body?
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12/06/2018 11:58:14 AM PST
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Mears
To: 2banana
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12/06/2018 12:06:52 PM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
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12/06/2018 12:08:18 PM PST
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: ETL
Form following function leads to very similar streamlined shapes for marine predators.
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12/06/2018 12:10:34 PM PST
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SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: SunkenCiv
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12/06/2018 12:12:19 PM PST
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fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: ETL
Incredible find. I luved the Mosasaur featured in “Jurassic World” but was disappointed there was no dolphin like show featuring Ichtyosaurs.
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12/06/2018 12:13:33 PM PST
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C19fan
To: ETL
Its discovery in this ancient "sea monster" - an ichthyosaur - appears to confirm the animal was warm-blooded, a rarity in reptiles. Or maybe the simpler explanation - that it wasn't a reptile at all....????
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12/06/2018 12:17:42 PM PST
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TheBattman
(Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
To: central_va
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12/06/2018 12:20:06 PM PST
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ETL
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To: PetroniusMaximus
As in ‘Bring home the blubber?’
To: C19fan
Mosasaur
Mosasaurs are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.
Their first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764.
Mosasaurs probably evolved from an extinct group of aquatic lizards[1] known as aigialosaurs in the Early Cretaceous.
During the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous period (Turonian-Maastrichtian ages), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became the dominant marine predators.
They became extinct as a result of the K-Pg event at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaur
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12/06/2018 12:24:03 PM PST
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ETL
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To: ETL
This specimen has given us more evidence that these tissues and molecules can preserve for extremely long periods, and that soft tissue analysis can shed light on evolutionary patterns, relationships, and how ancient animals functioned in their environment.
BS, this doesn't prove that the tissues can "preserve" for a long time. It proves the tissues haven't been in the stone for a long time.
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12/06/2018 12:24:33 PM PST
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wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: ETL
180-million-year-old 'sea monster' found with skin and blubber
To: ETL
That is funny someone actually checked the size of the Mosasaur from the movie.
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12/06/2018 12:26:15 PM PST
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C19fan
To: C19fan
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12/06/2018 12:26:23 PM PST
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ETL
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To: wbarmy
BS, this doesn’t prove that the tissues can “preserve” for a long time. It proves the tissues haven’t been in the stone for a long time.
Yea, and Amen!
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