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Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
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| June 12, 2019
| University of Leicester
Posted on 06/14/2019 8:58:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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06/14/2019 8:58:45 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
In before the moronic "settled science" comments.
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posted on
06/14/2019 8:59:42 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Noah could have seen them fly.
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:01:12 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
To: SunkenCiv
How they were able to carry out this process will require further research, but it is a question that wouldn't have been posed without these recent developments in our understanding. Translation:
"We used Grant #1 to dream up a set of "facts" which beg a follow-on question which neatly justifies our request for Grant #2."
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:04:50 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
:: fossilized embryos of the creatures found in China ::
And, to prove it, the Chinese scientists fashioned a “dinosaur” out of the rocks and tossed them into the sky. Chinese news agencies reported that they immediately achieved sustained flight and traveled approximately 30 meters.
Scientists. What can’t they theorize?
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:06:30 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:07:19 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: DungeonMaster
To: Red Badger
I was going to say “video or it didn’t happen” but it looks like you found it!
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:10:00 AM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
... this provides a possible explanation as to why they were able to reach enormous wingspans, A tenet of the Theory of Evolution is "Isolation breeds gigantism."
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:12:38 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: SunkenCiv
“Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth”
We have video.
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:13:17 AM PDT
by
fwdude
To: DungeonMaster
‘glide’ would be a more accurate description, I think
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:14:13 AM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SunkenCiv
How could they possibly know this?
Maybe it’s just an educated guess.
So, then, I will make a guess too; The pterodactyls would benefit from learning to fly early, because they very soon became massively heavy. If you don’t know how to fly before you weigh a quarter ton, then it’s too late. You will wander about the plains, flightless and earthbound as an Emu until something eats you or until you run out of food.
To: lee martell
“... You will wander about the plains, flightless and earthbound as an Emu until something eats you or until you run out of food....”
Sounds the text of a curse made by an old grizzled wizard in a sword and sorcery novel... :^)!!!
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06/14/2019 9:19:50 AM PDT
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NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: SunkenCiv
"this provides a possible explanation as to why they were able to reach enormous wingspans"
They had to be large in order to carry Nazgul.
To: SunkenCiv
"known as flaplings" ...as recently so dubbed by one of the guys on the project, no doubt. The OED shows no extant uses of that made-up word in the literature. Note how it coincidentally aligns with their deceptively appealing, new claim.
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06/14/2019 9:24:23 AM PDT
by
rx
(Truth Will Out!)
To: NFHale
Harry Potter type dialog.
Spoken while staring at a brightly glowing orb.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:25:51 AM PDT
by
ETL
(REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
To: lee martell
The discovery of more advanced embryos in China and Argentina that died just before they hatched provided the evidence that pterodactyls had the ability to fly from birth. Dr David Unwin said: “Theoretically what pterosaurs did, growing and flying, is impossible, but they didn’t know this, so they did it anyway.” Cause I said so!
Another fundamental difference between baby pterodactyls, also known as flaplings, and baby birds or bats, is that they had no parental care and had to feed and look after themselves from birth. They were clearly abandoned because... Oh yeah, because I said so!
For my next grant I will be discussing Global Warming because....
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posted on
06/14/2019 9:25:58 AM PDT
by
mistfree
(It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
To: SunkenCiv
actually I think it was confirmed on an episode of the Flintstones ...
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06/14/2019 9:28:34 AM PDT
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bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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