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New fossils of giant rhinos — the largest land mammals ever — are found in China
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| June 18, 2021
| Tom Metcalfe
Posted on 06/21/2021 8:02:55 AM PDT by deport
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To: Gay State Conservative
People aren’t going to stop going to Africa just because the Rhinos no longer have horns nor the elephants have their tusks cut off.
Heck, at the current price they could sew back on fake tusks that the poachers would instantly recognize as plastic.
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posted on
06/21/2021 8:55:17 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. ~Jonathan Karl)
To: ConservativeInPA
Sauropods were the largest land mammal.I take it that Paleontology was not your strongest subject at the university?
Regards,
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posted on
06/21/2021 8:58:05 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
Yeah, I took real science courses.
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posted on
06/21/2021 8:59:14 AM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
To: ConservativeInPA; sauropod
Consider the source of this article: Comcrap. Sauropods were the largest land mammal. This giant RINO isn’t even close.With the exception of our very own Sauropod, Sauropods are not mammals.
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:06:19 AM PDT
by
null and void
( I doubt that "voters" have any real influence over the process. We already know who counts the vote)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:06:24 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
To: escapefromboston
how soon before someone makes a deadly soup from it?
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:06:58 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
To: ConservativeInPA
Nothing there supporting your claim that sauropods were mammals.
To: ConservativeInPA
Didn’t know a Sauropod was a mammal, I was always led to belive it was a reptile.
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:09:51 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
To: deport
Sounds like the Baluchitherium that Roy Chapman Andrews found back in the 1930s.
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:11:42 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: ConservativeInPA
Sauropods were the largest land mammal. This giant RINO isn’t even close.Did Sauropods nurse their young from mammary glands? If so, you are correct. We may never know.
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:14:08 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: deport
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:15:44 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: dsrtsage
The actual shooting is most probably black on black; so this type of killing is considered not “newsworthy” to MSM.
Returning to the ancient rhino that is the subject of the article, I live in a modest two story home. The distance from the front entrance porch floor to the bottom of the entrance’s flat overhanging roof is 12 feet. Twenty feet at the shoulder is the tip of my outstretched fingers with me standing on top of that roof and my arms fully raised above my head!
How did such an animal move? How much did it have to eat on a daily basis to support such a body? What kind of environment produced such quantities of food? What kind of circulatory system was required to get its blood out to its furthest distance and back? What kind of blood pressure?
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posted on
06/21/2021 9:52:40 AM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
(Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
To: JimRed
Did Sauropods nurse their young from mammary glands? And I was taught mammals had hair and were live birthed (not from eggs). But then again I learned this 65 years ago and things may have changed.
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posted on
06/21/2021 10:18:16 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
To: eastforker
I just read an essay by Stephen Jay Gould where he argues that maybe dinosaurs should not be classed with the reptiles but that dinosaurs and birds may constitute a separate family (Dinosauria). I don’t know if anyone has followed him (he died in 2002).
To: immadashell
Monotremes are mammals but lay eggs.
To: deport
Were they found buried next to a giant stone wok? Asking for a friend...
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posted on
06/21/2021 10:25:54 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(An armed population is a polite population...)
To: Verginius Rufus
Thank you, I’m all the wiser.
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posted on
06/21/2021 10:28:09 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
To: immadashell
Probably the best-known monotreme is the duckbilled platypus. I once saw a children’s cartoon which featured one.
To: deport
You want a giant RINO ? Check the office of the Junior Senator from Utah. . .
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posted on
06/21/2021 10:39:07 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
To: deport
Mitch McConnel’s great ancestors.
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posted on
06/21/2021 10:56:18 AM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
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