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Fossil shark named after 80s video game
BBC ^ | 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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1 posted on 01/21/2019 10:29:25 AM PST by Red Badger
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Tooth of Galagadon nordquisti. (Credit: Terry Gates) ============================================================= The Galaga spaceship
2 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....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sharks in South Dakota?

Guess I’ll be canceling that trip to Mount Rushmore.


3 posted on 01/21/2019 10:32:39 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The Sharknado is everywhere...................


4 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....................)
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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.


5 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.')
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To: Red Badger

Would that mean global warming or cooling?


6 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)
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"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...

7 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/)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


8 posted on 01/21/2019 10:44:21 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Sharknado ping!


9 posted on 01/21/2019 10:54:13 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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They named a shark after an ‘80s watch company???


10 posted on 01/21/2019 11:33:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: null and void

Oh, it isn’t “Fossil Shark”.


11 posted on 01/21/2019 11:34:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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>>Would that mean global warming or cooling?

Cat 8 hurricanes


12 posted on 01/21/2019 11:35:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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13 posted on 01/21/2019 11:43:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I played that for hours....................


14 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....................)
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It is a close match. Good eye! I was thinking it was one of the alien ships.


15 posted on 01/21/2019 12:46:29 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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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.


16 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)
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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................


17 posted on 01/21/2019 2:21:09 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

18 posted on 01/21/2019 4:01:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/alleged-collusion-among-card-sharks-to-be-probed/article_9df51c3b-9186-5650-9f6a-6e74be79c4f9.html


19 posted on 01/21/2019 4:04:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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Sharks playing cards in South Dakota?

Do they play Go Fish for money?


20 posted on 01/21/2019 4:10:14 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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