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'Thunder-Thighs' Dinosaur Discovered
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| February 23, 2011
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Posted on 03/09/2011 10:40:36 PM PST by Immerito
'Thunder-Thighs' Dinosaur Discovered: Brontomerus May Have Used Powerful Thigh Muscles to Kick Predators
ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2011) — A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or "thunder-thighs" after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica by an international team of scientists from the UK and the US.
A member of the long-necked sauropod group of dinosaurs which includes Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus, Brontomerus may have used its powerful thighs as a weapon to kick predators, or to help travel over rough, hilly terrain. Brontomerus lived about 110 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous Period, and probably had to contend with fierce "raptors" such as Deinonychus and Utahraptor.
The fossilised bones of two specimens of Brontomerus mcintoshi -- an adult and a juvenile -- were rescued from a previously looted and damaged quarry in eastern Utah by researchers from the Sam Noble Museum. Paleontologists speculate that the larger specimen is the mother of the younger and would have weighed around 6 tons, about the size of a large elephant, and measured 14 meters in length. At a third of the size, the smaller specimen would have weighed about 200 kg, the size of a pony, and been 4.5 m long.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: brontomerus; dinosaur; dinosaurs; fossils; godsgravesglyphs; palentology; paleontology; prehistoricanimals
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:40:41 PM PST
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Immerito
To: Immerito; shibumi
In with the first MO crack.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:46:21 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: Immerito
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:47:11 PM PST
by
allmost
To: Salamander
Gross-Out Post of the Day -
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:58:37 PM PST
by
shibumi
(I am The Nexus One - I want more life, Baby I aint done!)
To: Salamander
Thought this was article about hillary and michelle. But I don’t think hillary could lift her leg high enough to kick anyone. michelle, otoh, practices daily. Is why 0 has such a flat butt.
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posted on
03/09/2011 10:59:41 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam..)
To: shibumi
I don’t even want to know how she wipes.
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:03:40 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: MestaMachine
I always thought his “purple lips” were bruises from her bitch-slapping him in the mouth, daily.
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:05:06 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: Salamander
Goji-Ra (Godzilla for you Occidental types) doesn’t wipe. He lives in the ocean and is naturally cleansed by movement through the water.
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:07:10 PM PST
by
shibumi
(I am The Nexus One - I want more life, Baby I aint done!)
To: shibumi
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:10:05 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: Salamander
Which explains the biceps. Har.
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:11:43 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam..)
To: Immerito
Wasn’t this already posted? Enough about my wife, already!
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:14:25 PM PST
by
Crcl1
To: MestaMachine
See?
It’s *all* coming together, now....:)
[his ever-changing skin tone is probably makeup used to hide the *other* punches]
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:18:20 PM PST
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Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:18:29 PM PST
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:30:15 PM PST
by
MestaMachine
(Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam..)
To: Immerito
Maybe they should call it the “Hillary-sarus”
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posted on
03/09/2011 11:31:19 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
To: Immerito
“Scientist” making up sh*t again.. “may have” is now scientific
To: BobSimons
'Thunder-Thighs' Dinosaur Discovered: Brontomerus May Have Used Powerful Thigh Muscles to Kick Predators Or it may have used for them to run at and jump at high speed.. YAY!!! this science sh*t is fun when we can make up Stuff!!! Whoo Hoo!!!
To: Immerito
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posted on
03/10/2011 12:16:22 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/10/2011 2:04:53 AM PST
by
StayoutdaBushesWay
(Every man dies, but not every man really lives.)
To: MestaMachine
“Macho, macho man! I got to be a macho man!”
[OMG....~this~ is what represents us to other countries]
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posted on
03/10/2011 2:45:23 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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