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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
www.dailymail.co.uk ^
| 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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To: Red Badger; bk1000
“..Probably smelled like fish..........”
But it tastes like Chicken!!!
Just a little bit.. “ichkty”... after sitting out all these years.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:39:05 AM PST
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Red Badger
Not archeologist, but paleontologist.
An archeologist is a person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
A paleontologist is a scientist who studies fossils. If your basement is filled with fossils found while out on hikes, then you’re an amateur paleontologist.
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:40:54 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder.)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
If your basement is filled with old bones, you may be a serial killer.....................
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:44:03 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Larry Lucido
“The Sea was angry that day my friends...”
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:45:09 AM PST
by
ResponseAbility
(The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:45:34 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Amazing that there would be any smell left for the dog to sniff after 65 million years. Id have thought it would be completely mineralized.
The gal who discovered collagen and and soft tissue remnants inside T-rex bones said she was inspired to look because of the "smell" fossil bones have.
"she noticed that the fossil exuded a distinctly organic odor. "It smelled just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died," she says. Given the conventional wisdom that such fossils were made up entirely of minerals, Schweitzer was anxious when mentioning this to Horner."
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/schweitzers-dangerous-discovery
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posted on
12/17/2019 8:55:36 AM PST
by
Spirochete
(GOP: Gutless Old Party)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Some other dog probably peed on it recently.
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posted on
12/17/2019 9:18:37 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
To: Red Badger
Whoa!
What happened to the increase of sea levels as per Greta?
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posted on
12/17/2019 9:23:45 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
To: Spirochete
That’s very interesting.
Maybe some of what’s left after bacteria are done is stable, and in some sort of vapor equilibrium in a confined space.
To: PGR88
Yep, and not able to keep any of it due to draconian British laws.
CC
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posted on
12/17/2019 9:49:00 AM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger
Somewhat off-topic GGG ping...
TXnMA
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posted on
12/17/2019 9:56:53 AM PST
by
TXnMA
(Viewing our world in all four dimensions -- reassures us that POTUS Trump will keep on winning...)
To: Red Badger
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Larry Lucido.
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posted on
12/17/2019 12:24:27 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: TXnMA
Off-topic? That's the leash of our worries.
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posted on
12/17/2019 12:26:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/17/2019 12:34:47 PM PST
by
Exit148
To: CurlyDave; GreyHoundSailor
Who put the "ick" in ichthyosaur?
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posted on
12/17/2019 2:25:57 PM PST
by
null and void
(Nancy? As a Catholic, why do you vote pro-abortion? Do you hate babies more than you love God?)
To: Spirochete
Interesting. I was thinking the dogs might have seen the odd pattern.
My sister had a Golden Retriever. You could take a baseball sized rock from the stream bed and throw it into the creek. That dog would bring back the same rock you threw - I guess from your scent on the rock.
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posted on
12/17/2019 4:43:35 PM PST
by
21twelve
(!)
To: Larry Lucido
yes very good dog.
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posted on
12/17/2019 5:59:31 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
(Tagline not secure.)
To: Exit148
This whole article really gives me paws..
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posted on
12/17/2019 11:39:12 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period 201.3 million years ago to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period 145 Mya.
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posted on
12/17/2019 11:46:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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