National Park Service interns unearthed fossils of a bizarre 220-million-year-old reptile

CNN ^ | Fri October 16, 2020 | Scottie Andrew

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The CNN “writer” misses the days when the wild thesaurus roamed the earth.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Pelosiraptor botoxicus.

Wonderful - can I borrow that?

[ConservaTeen]

Did Nancy Pelosi have one as a pet when she was a little girl? 😀

[ConservaTeen]

It became extinct due to climate change of prehistoric Republicans driving prehistoric SUVs ... Prehistoric Trump's fault....😀

This is fun, blaming Trump!! You don't need to think, just accuse. 😀 Now I know why Dems say Trump's fault! It's easier to say it than finding out what the problem is!

[ConservaTeen]

That is even uglier than the animal!!! 😀

[captain_dave]

So much assumed, so little known.

They found fossils. How do they know the creatures were burrowers? They were certainly not “evading” the paleontologists. It’s nice how we can get a picture of these creases from a few mineralized remains, or can we?

Paleontology is like reading fictionalized history novels or watching an “historical” movie. It’s entertainment, not history.

[rfp1234]

Certainly.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the pings!

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[BradyLS]

Secret Service Codename: The Cryptkeeper

[BradyLS]

What are its stats? HP? AC?

[gleeaikin]

Hearing this early “dinosaur” discribed, I wondered if it might actually have been a therapsid so looked at the original article. There I found another interesting article about a weird early mammal find that is 66 million years old.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/world/crazy-beast-ancient-mammal-scn/index.html

[SunkenCiv]

Mammal told me there’d be paleontological eras like these.

[wildbill]

Damn you beat me to the Helen Thomas sighting reference

[ThanhPhero]

Curious critter.