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Prehistoric Giant Goose Skull Found
LiveScience ^
| September 26, 2008
| Andrea Thompson
Posted on 09/27/2008 4:48:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists have found a new huge and well-preserved fossil of a goose and duck relative that swam around what is now England 50 million years ago flashing sharp, toothy smiles. The skull, discovered on the Isle of Sheppey off the southeast coast of England in the Thames Estuary, belonged to a huge ancient bird in the extinct genus Dasornis, which had a whopping 16-foot (5-meter) wingspan...
Scientists had found fossils of other bony-toothed birds, or pelagornithids, in deposits called the London Clay, which underlies much of London, Essex and northern Kent in the southeast of England. This new fossil, from the same clay layer, is one of the most well-preserved fossils ever found there and has provided scientists with previously unknown details of the birds' anatomy...
Like all living birds, Dasornis had a beak made of keratin, the same substance that forms our hair and fingernails. But unlike modern birds... Dasornis had bony "pseudo-teeth" (true teeth are made of enamel and dentine)...
Researchers think that the closest living relatives to Dasornis are not other big birds such as the albatross, but ducks and geese.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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The skull of Dasornis, showing the fossil specimen and a reconstruction of the complete skull. Credit: Fred Clouter |
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An artist's conception of an ancient giant pseudo-toothed bird, or pelagornithid. Credit: Ludger Bollen, from "Der Flug des Archaeopteryx", Quelle+Meyer Vlg. |
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posted on
09/27/2008 4:48:11 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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09/27/2008 4:49:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv; Chieftain
No doubt one of the Clinton ‘problems”!
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posted on
09/27/2008 4:53:28 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
To: SunkenCiv
When does the season open and what is the bag limit?
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posted on
09/27/2008 4:54:53 PM PDT
by
TLEIBY308
(I AM PRO CHOICE,I BELEIVE EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY WHAT EVER GUN THEY CHOOSE)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Imagine cleaning that poop off your lawn!
To: TLEIBY308
That's one goose turd I wouldn't want to step in......

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09/27/2008 4:57:20 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(A man who never quits is never defeated.)
To: SunkenCiv
....
AFLAC!
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posted on
09/27/2008 5:00:34 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
("Annoy the media, elect PALIN and McCAIN....errr....McCAIN / PALIN.....McPALIN" 8^)
To: TLEIBY308

..."and if your thinking I'm gonna drag it out of that pond, ya betta think again"
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posted on
09/27/2008 5:03:19 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: TLEIBY308
When does the season open and what is the bag limit?Have to bring out the old time market guns for that one; 8 gauge, 6 gauge.
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09/27/2008 5:07:29 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
To: SunkenCiv
Was it a giant flying bag of feces like the Canada goose?
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09/27/2008 5:07:34 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action Candidate)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie; TLEIBY308; Kiss Me Hardy; Viking2002; skinkinthegrass; Doogle; Inyo-Mono; ...
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09/27/2008 5:13:13 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: skinkinthegrass; SunkenCiv
....AFLAC!More like "AFLAC... run for your lives!"
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09/27/2008 5:14:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I know, I don't even need to read it. My dad told me this cornball story when I was ten. I won't spoil it for everyone else - they probably haven't heard a good groaner in a while. LOL

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09/27/2008 5:17:29 PM PDT
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Viking2002
(A man who never quits is never defeated.)
To: SunkenCiv
But could the Dasornis dance?
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09/27/2008 5:21:38 PM PDT
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Daffynition
(Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, SorosÂ… use a RED crayon.)
To: SunkenCiv
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09/27/2008 5:26:48 PM PDT
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Tax-chick
("Senator McCain is right." ~ B. H. Obama)
To: Viking2002
“...I left my harp in Sam Clam’s disco.”
“...Wait ‘til the nun signs, Shelley.”
“...Silly rabbi, kicks are for trids.”
“...Let your pages do the walking through the yellow fingers.”
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09/27/2008 5:54:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Daffynition
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09/27/2008 5:55:17 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
“Imagine a bird like an ocean-going goose almost the size of a small plane!”
Well, since I hunt Canada Goose, I’d imagine I’d only need ONE per season of these, Eh? LOL!
Cool article. Sending it on to all of the Hunters in my life.
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posted on
09/27/2008 5:57:34 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SunkenCiv
Are they clean or unclean? Noah’s ark is getting crowded.
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09/27/2008 5:59:14 PM PDT
by
Soliton
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