Posted on 01/27/2009 7:05:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
An ancient skull found by an amateur Oklahoma paleontologist at an old rock quarry near Lawton turned out to be a new species unknown to scientists.
Coweta accountant Tony Morris found the skull about three years ago in a pile of rubble with a group from the Tulsa Rock and Mineral Society.
It's about the size of a shoebox with a single row of teeth protruding from one edge.
Now researchers are ready to say the fossil is that of a previously unknown species and is a that from a lizardlike creature in the cacops family.
The animal is described as looking somewhat like a crocodile with a large head.
Morris has donated the fossil to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman.
They found a skull from a previously unknown species and they’ve determined that the animal had a large head. If all they have is the head, how they declare the head large? By what measure?
I know it’s a tradition, but must we always ruin a perfectly good thread by activating the gag reflex.
What about the West Virginia fossil?
Don’t know, they just keep re-electing him.
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Thanks nick....from a lizardlike creature in the cacops family. The animal is described as looking somewhat like a crocodile with a large head.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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West Virginia fossils rarely have teeth.
I noticed this on the same page:
Man lives on whiskey for two days
A man who was trapped under his sofa for two and a half days survived by sipping whiskey.
Joe Galliott from Somerset, England fell over a phone cord and landed on the sofa which then landed on top of him, leaving him trapped.
He was eventually freed 60 hours later after drinking from a whiskey bottle that had also toppled.
http://www.fox23.com/mostpopular/story/Man-lives-on-whiskey-for-two-days/064R9zyAnEKohz508PWQhQ.cspx
That sounds like one of my questions. ;)
So that’s what a *Sooner* is.
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