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Ancient 'Super-Croc' Fossil Discovered in Museum Drawer
LiveScience ^
| January 30, 2013
| Charles Choi
Posted on 01/30/2013 4:45:18 PM PST by EveningStar
Long-forgotten remains of a giant dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super-predator" that could devour ancient beasts its size and larger have now been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland, researchers say.
The ancient newfound crocodilian is named Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, which in ancient Greek means "blood-biting tyrant swimmer."
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KEYWORDS: fossil
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To: EveningStar
I’ve discovered a croc in me drawers.
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posted on
01/30/2013 4:46:28 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/30/2013 4:48:55 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
To: cripplecreek
I’ve discovered a croc in me drawers.(With apologies to Groucho Marx): How he got in your drawers, you'll never know!
To: cripplecreek
Victorians were better at collecting than doing analysis and documentation.
I will give them one thing.
They probably would notice a croc in the drawers. No-one wears crocs while going out. And certainly not in the drawers.
/johnny
To: EveningStar
We’re gonna need a bigger drawer.
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posted on
01/30/2013 4:55:35 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(AR-10s & AR-15s are the 21st Century's Muskets. The 2nd Amendment is the First Human Right.)
To: cripplecreek
I found an ancient dried up fossil in mine.
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01/30/2013 4:55:59 PM PST
by
MARTIAL MONK
(I'm waiting for the POP!)
To: EveningStar
discovered in a museum drawer
Can't be that big if it was stored in a drawer.......
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posted on
01/30/2013 4:56:29 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
To: EveningStar
Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos "Nessie" for short.
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posted on
01/30/2013 4:57:14 PM PST
by
Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: MARTIAL MONK
Re “I found an ancient dried up fossil in mine.”
What was Barbara Walters doing in your drawers?
Perhaps I’d better not ask!
To: EveningStar
When I first read the headline I thought they were talking about Hillary Clinton
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posted on
01/30/2013 5:07:06 PM PST
by
dirtymac
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: EveningStar
Saw this already in a ScyFy channel movie.
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01/30/2013 5:08:32 PM PST
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: The Iceman Cometh
Did you think it was a croc then? :)
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posted on
01/30/2013 5:09:51 PM PST
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
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01/30/2013 5:16:00 PM PST
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x
To: EveningStar
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01/30/2013 5:16:30 PM PST
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muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: EveningStar; Revolting cat!
I found the keys to a 1984 AMC Concord in a drawer once.
To: cripplecreek
And Groucho Marx once shot an elephant in his pajamas, he claimed he didn’t know how it got there.
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posted on
01/30/2013 8:41:15 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: count-your-change; cripplecreek; All
‘___elephant in his pajamas______’
Don’t stop now - you guys have me in stitches - keep it going!
Oh - just remembered - I have black fur-trimmed crocs - - -
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posted on
01/30/2013 9:39:45 PM PST
by
USARightSide
(S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
To: USARightSide
“I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know’’. “Later on we shot for big game.I shot two bucks, that was the biggest game I shot all day’’.
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01/30/2013 11:59:23 PM PST
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jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: EveningStar; Tax-chick
Ancient 'Super-Croc' Fossil Discovered in Museum Drawer I wonder if it wore cats-eye glasses. I sure miss The Far Side.
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01/31/2013 12:08:37 AM PST
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Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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