"Italian dinosaur"
Posted on 12/21/2018 12:19:36 PM PST by ETL
Paleontologists have excavated a mighty meat-eating, four-fingered dinosaur from an unexpected spot: the Italian Alps.
The newly identified beast — dubbed Saltriovenator zanellai — lived about 200 million years ago, and it's the first-known Jurassic dinosaur discovered in Italy, the researchers said. It's also the oldest-known ceratosaurian, as well as the largest (it weighed 1 ton), predatory dinosaur known from the earliest part of the Jurassic.
S. zanellai's journey to fossilization and discovery thrilled scientists, who deduced that the dinosaur's body ended up in the sea, where marine critters nibbled on its bones before it was buried. Then, it was lifted up toward the heavens as the Alps began forming about 30 million years ago.
"It is a miracle that it survived such a long chain of events: drifting away to the sea, then floating, sinking, being scavenged by marine animals, reworked by sea bottom currents, buried, uplifted within a mountain chain, and eventually blown up by human explosives," study lead researcher Cristiano Dal Sasso, a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Milan Natural History Museum, told Live Science.
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"Italian dinosaur"
What was the dinosaur doing with explosives?
I don’t know. He might have been one of Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground comrades. Some other friends of his blew themselves up in a townhouse here in Manhattan millions of years later.
What was the dinosaur doing with explosives?
In any case, looks like he tried to make a run for it, but ended up getting caught in Italy.
*ping*
What was the dinosaur doing with explosives?
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Pre-evolutionary Vaping
>>>”It is a miracle that it survived such a long chain of events: drifting away to the sea, then floating, sinking, being scavenged by marine animals, reworked by sea bottom currents, buried, uplifted within a mountain chain, and eventually blown up by human explosives,”<<<
Sounds like what the Media, Rats and Never Trumpers have been doing to Donald Trump since he announced his run for the Presidency.
...Paleontologists have excavated a mighty meat-eating, four-fingered dinosaur...
Re: “Paleontologists have excavated a mighty meat-eating, four-fingered dinosaur”
Yes,. apparently its 5th finger was blown off in the blast.
I believe the archaeologists might call the 5th digits ‘thumbs’, but I’m not certain.
"Here hold mah beer and watch this!"
Almost made it to Switzerland! ;)
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Sounds like a Fiat I once had. ;^)
From here in Toronto it is our experience that Italian Raptors seldom work out.
It was a Mafioso.................
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