Posted on 02/08/2006 10:26:20 AM PST by mlc9852
NEW YORK - Scientists say they've found the earliest known tyrannosaur, shedding light on the lineage that produced the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. The discovery comes with a puzzle: Why did this beast have a strange crest on its head?
Digging in the badlands of northwestern China that appeared in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," researchers found two skeletons of a creature that lived some 160 million years ago. That's more than 90 million years before T. rex came along.
A two-legged meat-eater, the beast was far smaller than T. rex, measuring about 10 feet from its snout to the tip of its tail and standing about 3 feet tall at the hip. It also sported relatively long, three-fingered arms, rather than the two-fingered stubby arms T. rex had. Scientists suspect it had feathers because related dinosaurs did.
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Like your tagline, BTW. I can't stand him.
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"Digging in the badlands of northwestern China that appeared in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,""
Am I the only one who finds this depressing?
Eventually the only missing links will be between mother an child, and then what are evilutionists gonna do?
I wonder how he manages to play guitar and hold his nose shut when he sings, all simultaneously. ;')
Somewhere I've got a vinyl LP of "Tyrannosaurus Rex", which I think is the first one; Marc Bolan and Steve "Peregrin" Took. Cat black, the wizard's hat...
Both dead, I believe.
Hey, you're right. This could now be a GGG topic. ;')
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