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Dog walker discovers a 65 million-year-old 'ichthyosaur' skeleton on a beach in Somerset after his pets sniffed it out when it was left exposed by recent storms
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| Published: 07:00 EST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 08:55 EST, 16 December 2019
| By Jonathan Chadwick
Posted on 12/17/2019 8:09:23 AM PST by Red Badger
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The skeleton was unearthed in Stolford, Somersetafter a week of rough seas on the south coast
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
To: Red Badger; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Is anybody here a marine reptile biologist?
To: Red Badger
Dog walkers and people with metal detectors seem to discover everything in England.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:13:13 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: Larry Lucido
Well, I’m a Marine.
I’ve been called a ‘reptile’.
And I too biology in college.................
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:14:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Red Badger
Impressive, but what blows my mind is that is had a smell after 65MM years. A dog’s nose is simply amazing.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:14:37 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: bk1000
Probably smelled like fish...............
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:15:40 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Red Badger
Ichthyosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago. Do they mean 165 million years ago?
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:16:28 AM PST
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: Red Badger
Looks like it had alligator skin.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:17:18 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth, or producing more than we consume.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:18:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:19:13 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Red Badger
Dog school should give him an honorary cadaver dog degree.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:20:09 AM PST
by
boycott
To: Red Badger
“ Probably smelled like fish..........”
Lol. I wasn’t going there, but......
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:21:28 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:24:02 AM PST
by
bgill
To: Campion
At the end of the article they set the record straight.............
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:28:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Red Badger
Are you sure that armored thing is an icthyosaurus?
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:29:04 AM PST
by
Berosus
(I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
To: Berosus
I think the y have TWO different fossils in one there..............
See subsequent pics at link...............
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:31:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Campion
There’s a Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in a ghost town in Nevada I’ve visited and they claim 225 million years.
To: bk1000
Impressive, but what blows my mind is that is had a smell after 65MM years. A dog’s nose is simply amazing. Who put the "ick" in ichthyosaur?
To: Red Badger
Amazing that there would be any smell left for the dog to sniff after 65 million years. I’d have thought it would be completely mineralized.
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