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Antarctica 'Lost World' Found
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| March 7, 2004
Posted on 03/07/2004 8:59:32 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
Two teams of researchers, working separately thousands of miles from each other but both defeating incredible odds, have made stunning finds in frozen Antarctica -- so stunning that the National Science Foundation calls their discoveries evidence of a lost world.
The researchers found what they believe to be the fossilized remains of two species of dinosaurs previously unknown to science. One is a 70-million-year old quick-moving meat-eater found on the bottom of an Antarctic sea, while and the other is a 200-million-year-old giant plant-eater that was found on the top of a mountain, reports Reuters.
The lost world in which these two dinosaurs lived was very different from the Antarctica we know now. Their Antarctica was not frigid and frozen. Their Antarctica was warm and wet.
The 70-million-year-old carnivore was small for a dinosaur at just 6 to 8 feet tall. Scientists believe it is an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur that is related to the enormous meat-eating tyrannosaurs and the equally voracious, but smaller and swifter, velociraptors. Think "Jurassic Park." Now scream in terror! Found on James Ross Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula by a team led by Judd Case from St. Mary's College of California, it likely floated out to sea after it died and then sank to the bottom of the Weddell Sea. Reuters explains that its bones and teeth show that it was a two-legged animal that survived in the Antarctic long after other predators took over elsewhere on the globe. "One of the surprising things is that animals with these more primitive characteristics generally haven't survived as long elsewhere as they have in Antarctica," Case told Reuters.
The 200-million-year-old herbivore, a primitive sauropod that had a long neck and four legs, was found by a team led by William Hummer from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois on the 13,000-foot high Mt. Kirkpatrick near the Beardmore Glacier. When this dino lived, the area was a soft riverbed. The team found dinosaur bones, specifically part of a huge pelvis and ilium. "This site is so far removed geographically from any site near its age, it's clearly a new dinosaur to Antarctica," Hammer told Reuters. This dinosaur was probably about 30 feet long, but was part of a lineage that went on to produce animals as large as 100 feet long.
Both excavations were supported by the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctica; archaeology; archeaology; catastrophism; climate; dinosaurs; ggg; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; nsf; paleontology
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To: Cowgirl
One is a 70-million-year old quick-moving meat-eater found on the bottom of an Antarctic sea, while and the other is a 200-million-year-old giant plant-eater that was found on the top of a mountain, reports Reuters.70 - 200 million years old??...It's so laughable that "scientist" put their religion over fact and their own scientific method and really BELIEVE that the earth is that old when all the known evidence points to about 6-7 thousand years.
To: pepsi_junkie
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:46:21 AM PST
by
Gazoo
To: pepsi_junkie
The lost world in which these two dinosaurs lived was very different from the Antarctica we know now. Their Antarctica was not frigid and frozen. Their Antarctica was warm and wet.
Great find! The global warming NUTS who are so quick to attribute every 0.5 degree temperature increase (real or imagined) to industrialized MAN, will have a hard time spinning this one!
To: katana
Gold. Can't remember his first name...
:^)
To: null and void
Thomas Gold. Google is my friend...
To: ml/nj
Atkinsaurus?
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:58:24 AM PST
by
fish hawk
("I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more")
To: FL_engineer
Interesting...So does it follow that the temperature of the earth was more uniform at one time and now has polar caps due to global cooling. What was going on, say in Africa, 70 million years ago? Guess it's time for a notepad.
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posted on
03/07/2004 9:58:33 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: null and void
I heard him interviewed on the radio and was impressed. He's a serial iconoclast who over the course of a long career has come up with numerous "unorthodox" (i.e. contrary to to accepted wisdom of the PhD's in various scientific fields) theories in several different disciplines, labeled a crank by these same "experts", and then vindicated a few years later by new data. IIRC, according to him we probably have enough obtainable petroleum on the planet to last a few hundred if not a couple thousand years. This would, of course, upset one of the bigger wheels on the enviro-whackos' applecart.
It is funny that the amount of "proven reserves" keeps going up as new fields are discovered in unexpected places, not to mention that hydrocarbons have been detected in space. Not likely to be too many forests or dinosaurs on Jupiter.
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:04:53 AM PST
by
katana
To: All
I saw this movie. I only rated a 3. I hope that helps.
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:05:08 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Your secrets safe with me and my friends deep inside the earth.)
To: sirchtruth
70 - 200 million years old??...It's so laughable that "scientist" put their religion over fact and their own scientific method and really BELIEVE that the earth is that old when all the known evidence points to about 6-7 thousand years. Proof please ... serious question by the way
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:06:39 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
To: Cowgirl; sirchtruth
Now that you have admitted to the bible as a potential source for reliable knowledge we hereby declare your capacity for inductive and deductive reasoning to be altogether and indefinitely suspended. /s
To: FL_engineer
The change in climate probably had more to do with continental drift than any general changes in global temperatures. Antarctica was at one time much closer to if not astride the equator as part of the unified continent of Pangea (sp?). I believe in that part of current geologic theory since, unlike "Man Evil = CO2 = Global Warming", there is genuine evidence and it's not based on a luddite political agenda.
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:12:29 AM PST
by
katana
To: pepsi_junkie
Boy, talk about global warming! If Anarctica was warm and wet, the rest of the planet must have been worse than a bathhouse in Batavia.
To: ServesURight
Atlantis?No, worse yet, FRiend. 'Tis worse, far worse than Atlantis. 'Tis be the land of Cthulhu!
According to H.P. Lovecraft, or something like that.:)
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:19:09 AM PST
by
xJones
To: pepsionice; pepsi_junkie
Hey....are you 2 related?
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:20:04 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(CAUTION: I'm an acquaintance of someone labelled :"an obstinate supporter of dangerous fantasies")
To: sirchtruth
"It's so laughable that "scientist" put their religion over fact and their own scientific method and really BELIEVE that the earth is that old when all the known evidence points to about 6-7 thousand years."What have you been smokin'?
Available recorded history goes back more than 2x's that far.
What are your sources?
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:20:59 AM PST
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: katana
That would cover the fossil on the mountaintop; what about the one in the nearby sea?
To: nuconvert
No, pepsi is my first name, junkie is the family name.
To: sirchtruth
70 - 200 million years old??...It's so laughable that "scientist" put their religion over fact and their own scientific method and really BELIEVE that the earth is that old when all the known evidence points to about 6-7 thousand years. Ha ha ha ha ha. This is joke, right?
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:28:00 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: pepsi_junkie
Ah.....
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posted on
03/07/2004 10:31:29 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(CAUTION: I'm an acquaintance of someone labelled :"an obstinate supporter of dangerous fantasies")
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