Antarctica 'Lost World' Found

Netscape News ^ | March 7, 2004

[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.

[John H K]

Just out of curiousity, do you eat or have you eaten crabs, shrimp, oysters, or clams?

[sirchtruth]

Ha ha ha ha ha. This is joke, right?

I'm not laughing...but the fact that people will take at face value a THEORY that does not jive with reality.

That's the joke!

[sirchtruth]

Leaving aside radiometric dating, tree rings alone get us back 10,000+ years.

And seasonal layering in ice cores goes back 100,000+ years.

The oldest living/dead tree that we know of is only 3,400 years old and your ice rings are caused by temperature variants, not years!

Radiometric dating is not a reliable test because of the many wrong calculations that have been made on different objects that were supposed to be of the same period.

[Fedora]

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.:)

Yep, per At the Mountains of Madness :) This is a sure sign that the Old Ones are due back any time now. . .

[sirchtruth]

Just out of curiousity, do you eat or have you eaten crabs, shrimp, oysters, or clams?

So I'm a sinner, sue me!

[Fedora]

[Khurkris]

"What are your sources?

The Bible, King James Version, original Greek, and Hebrew..."

A man's gotta believe something. Good fortune to you Sir.

[sauropod]

"The 200-million-year-old herbivore, a primitive sauropod that had a long neck and four legs..."

Who's calling who "primitive?" ;-)

[Cowgirl]

Psalm 94:11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Psalm 95:3-6 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

Your argument is with the Lord not me, I'm just the messenger.

[stanz]

Just who's laughable?

[sirchtruth]

A man's gotta believe something. Good fortune to you Sir.

See, now that is most respectable. You might not agree with what I believe, but at least you acknowledge there is a belief system.

Thanks...and may you be highly blessed.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I told you that this was a hypothesis.

You really have a hypothesis that bible believers are incapable of inductive and deductive reasoning? What is the basis for this hypothesis?

[sirchtruth]

Just who's laughable?

People that believe an old earth theory and desguise it as though it were a fact that the eath is millions of years old.

It's only a belief just like any other religion.

[Cowgirl]

They found a crashed plane on Greenland below ice rings that numbered thousands and thousands of years. The rings were formed from weather changes, not one ring per year.
I'm sure there is an explanation for tree rings too.

[hford02]

that mar's picture was shot in New Mexico. All the money for the mission was split between Haliburton and the Bush re-election fund.

[hford02]

If your algae decay forming oil hypothesis is correct then are there pre-oil formations covering vast areas of the globe? Where are they?

[Jeff Gordon]

What is the basis for this hypothesis?

Observation.

[xJones]

Yep, per At the Mountains of Madness :) This is a sure sign that the Old Ones are due back any time now. . .

Not to worry! If the Old Ones are breaking though, I've left your name, phone number, and address on my desk for them while I'm off to an extended vacation in Bum Duck (sp?), Egypt. :D

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

That rules!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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

Oh, my God! It's...

DINOSAUR MAN!!!