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Unusual 'sail-backed' dinosaur roamed Spain 125 million years ago
Reuters ^
| December 16, 2015
| Will Dunham
Posted on 12/16/2015 7:34:46 PM PST by EveningStar
Along a lush river delta in what is now northeastern Spain, a herd of dinosaurs munched on ferns and conifers similar to modern-day cypresses 125 million years ago.
These creatures stood out from the others in this Cretaceous Period landscape by virtue of the unusual sail-like structure on their backs, and experts today can only hypothesize about its function.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: cretaceous; dinosaur; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; morelladon; paleontology; sailbackeddinosaur; spain
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To: snarkpup
nothing like a dinosaur to bring out the boy in us.
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:00:44 PM PST
by
gusopol3
To: snarkpup
Nice! Best thing I had was the mechanical horse at Woolworth’s to ride for a nickel.
I hope there is something here millions of years from now that can make toy models of us. Then maybe they can do science and technology, and who knows, get further than we did.
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:09:29 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: MUDDOG
They will make toy models of us and little ‘whatevertheyares’ will make their toy dinosaurs eat us.
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:38:46 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:43:24 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: onedoug
I know I didn’t know that name. I wonder if there was a more well-known name.
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:46:22 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: snarkpup
Mold-a-Rama
To: TigersEye
I can imagine dinosaurs stalking us when I see their descendants the birds stalking worms.
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posted on
12/16/2015 9:58:49 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: EveningStar
I just bought my Wife the Dinosaurs TV Show DVD set.
Didn’t see any Sails on a one.
Not the Mama...
To: MUDDOG
We’d be easy meat. I just happen to have a show on about crocs in Costa Rica and the rise in attacks. Just a coincidence, nothing else to watch. Crocs would be nothing compared to the raptors. We’d be like bugs to chickens for them.
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12/16/2015 10:16:56 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: Kickass Conservative
Gonna need another Timmy!
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posted on
12/16/2015 10:50:34 PM PST
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: EveningStar
Thanks ES, will ping later.
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posted on
12/17/2015 12:20:53 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: EveningStar
Northeastern Spain during Morelladon's time alternated between wet and dry periods, with strong temperature variations ranging from 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 Celsius) to about 104 F (40 C). There are many places in the US today where this temperature variation is not considered particularly strong or unusual. In fact, just in the year 2015, the area of Southern Oregon where I live has seen temperatures of 20 degrees F last winter, and over 109 degrees this summer. Our climate is not considered extreme.
To: EveningStar; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks EveningStar.
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12/17/2015 2:17:32 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: snarkpup
"When I was little, they had a robotic plastic injection molding machine at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul. You put in a coin and the mechanism ran for a couple of minutes and made a plastic dinosaur for you while you watched."
I got one from the Sinclair station up the road:
And yes, it was a long long time ago.
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posted on
12/17/2015 2:30:36 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Kozy
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posted on
12/17/2015 2:44:36 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Fungi; EveningStar; SunkenCiv; blam; All
Depending on which parts remain a full recreation is possible. Colors would be a guess. Predicting the future is one thing. Evaluating existing sedimentary deposits and fossils is quite another.
To: EveningStar; SunkenCiv
To: colorado tanker
[singing] well you can rock it you can roll it you can stop and you can stroll it at the hump...
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12/19/2015 2:37:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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