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Fossil shark named after 80s video game
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| 01/21/2019
| Staff
Posted on 01/21/2019 10:29:25 AM PST by Red Badger
A newly discovered species of ancient shark has been named after a 1980s arcade game.
The shark swam in the rivers of what is now South Dakota, US, about 67 million years ago, living alongside iconic dinosaur species such as T. rex.
It's been named Galagadon, after the 1981 Japanese-US game Galaga, because its teeth resemble the spaceships in the game.
The specimen is described in the Journal of Paleontology.
"It may seem odd today, but about 67 million years ago, what is now South Dakota was covered in forests, swamps and winding rivers," said co-author Terry Gates, from North Carolina State University.
The tiny teeth - each measuring less than a millimetre across - were discovered in the sediment left behind when palaeontologists at the Field Museum in Chicago uncovered the bones of "Sue," currently the most complete T. rex specimen ever described.
However, said Dr Gates, "Galagadon was not swooping in to prey on T. rex, Triceratops, or any other dinosaurs that happened into its streams. This shark had teeth that were good for catching small fish or crushing snails and crawdads (crayfish)."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: archaeology; dinosaur; fossil; galaga; galagadon; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; japan; paleontology; shark; southdakota; teeth; trex
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To: Red Badger
![](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/files/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-3.56.16-PM.png)
Tooth of Galagadon nordquisti. (Credit: Terry Gates) =============================================================
![](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/files/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-15-at-3.57.27-PM.png)
The Galaga spaceship
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:30:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Sharks in South Dakota?
Guess Ill be canceling that trip to Mount Rushmore.
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:32:39 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
The Sharknado is everywhere...................
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:35:27 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
If that’s the case they should name it after me - I pumped about a billion quarters into that machine over the years.
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:39:15 AM PST
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: Red Badger
Would that mean global warming or cooling?
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:41:20 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
To: Red Badger
"It may seem odd today, but about 67 million years ago, what is now South Dakota was covered in forests, swamps and winding rivers," said co-author Terry Gates, from North Carolina State University. And the anthropogenic global warming happened! Oh noes!
Oh, wait...
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:41:39 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:44:21 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Red Badger; AceMineral; Aevery_Freeman; a fool in paradise; Alex Murphy; Altariel; NeoCaveman; ...
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posted on
01/21/2019 10:54:13 AM PST
by
null and void
(Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
To: null and void
They named a shark after an ‘80s watch company???
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posted on
01/21/2019 11:33:56 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: null and void
Oh, it isn’t “Fossil Shark”.
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posted on
01/21/2019 11:34:24 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: bgill
>>Would that mean global warming or cooling?
Cat 8 hurricanes
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posted on
01/21/2019 11:35:11 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/21/2019 11:43:15 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
I played that for hours....................
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posted on
01/21/2019 12:02:13 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
It is a close match. Good eye! I was thinking it was one of the alien ships.
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posted on
01/21/2019 12:46:29 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Red Badger
Loved that game...nothing better than when you got in on the start of a run and wiped out the whole swarm as they did the curl up.
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posted on
01/21/2019 2:19:08 PM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: reed13k
Even had the Atari version.
Also have a ‘Retro’ Arcade game that has all the old Arcade games, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Galaxian, etc., that you connect to your TV................
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01/21/2019 2:21:09 PM PST
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: fieldmarshaldj; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
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posted on
01/21/2019 4:01:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
01/21/2019 4:04:47 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Sharks playing cards in South Dakota?
Do they play Go Fish for money?
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posted on
01/21/2019 4:10:14 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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