Newfound Dinosaur a Transitional Creature

Las Vegas Sun (AP) ^ | May 04, 2005 | Malcolm Ritter

[MeanWestTexan]

Caught in the act of evolution, the odd-looking, feathered dinosaur was becoming more vegetarian, moving away from its meat-eating ancestors.

It had the built-for-speed legs of meat-eaters, but was developing the bigger belly of plant-eaters. It had already lost the serrated teeth needed for tearing flesh. Those were replaced with the smaller, duller vegetarian variety.

[mlc9852]

That's what I was wondering - are they saying they are surprised because this particular dinosaur apparently was a herbivore? Or are they surprised it lived in Utah? Or are they surprised it existed? Humans and other animals eat plants and meat so I'm not sure what the big story is here. Someone help me out.

[American Quilter]

I eat meat and plants. I wonder what I'm transitioning into....

LOL!

[mlc9852]

Muslims are too busy chopping off people's heads and the Moonies are too busy doing mass weddings.

[narby]

Your God must love you for being such a good liar.

Cut him some slack. Maybe he's just ignorant.....

[American Quilter]

They gathered there to discuss their newfound vegetarianism and how it was going to make transcendent creatures of them all. They died of boredom.

ROFL!!!

[Bringbackthedraft]

"All this information from nothing but the Bones?"

Sorta like a CSI investigation? Every piece of the puzzle is gathered. Then they put them together. There are still too many pieces floating around before a definite answer can be given. Questions including why we as humans exist can not be answered with simple answers, it will take many more generations of human kind to find that answer. There is more to develop, like the human brain using more of it's capacity. Many generations from now we may be able to regrow our own severed limbs like starfish and crabs. It may sound dumb at this stage of our development but when our brains are at 90% capacity who knows what we will be able to accomplish.

[70times7]

Devil must have put transitional fossils in the ground again to confuse everyone

Don't be silly, there is no need for one to expend effort to accomplish what others do so well.

The observations that these scientists have made of the habits of these creatures, big bellies and all, are sufficient to convince me. I just wish they hadn't left out all the info on their social interaction; I always find that enightening.

[narby]

I wouldn't be surprised if this so-called finding is already years old and has been established as fakes

They faked up hundreds of these things?

That must have been a lot of work.

[Sacajaweau]

It's called creative archeolgy.

One guy makes the find from all the junk in his basement that he scarfed. Another immediately steps to the plate to discount it and they both wind up with grants.

[PatrickHenry]

This thing can't be transitional. Everyone knows there was no evolution until Darwin invented it as a plot to promote sexual promiscuity, communism, atheism, racism, sodomy, internet spam, and Ponzi schemes.
</flaming idiot mode>

[mike182d]

kind of like the 'Masterbaterdon' whose one side attempts at procreation bore no fruit........

However, its existence gives light to our own genetic lineage and the development of the thumb, contrary to other primates.

[MeanWestTexan]

"Don't these things just about always turn out to be fakes?"

Generally that's the ones from China -- big money to be made and the peasants think its fun.

This is lots-and-lots of the same creature --- in America.

[bkepley]

Why does one article call it a feathered dinosaur, and the other not mention feathers at all? Here's something else that bothers me, dinosaurs as birds rather than reptiles becomes fashionable and suddenly we're up to our necks in feathered dinosaurs. How did we miss the feathers before? Of course, I'm a hardware and software engineer and don't have much interest in natural sciences so I could have the history wrong but that's the way I remember it.

[mnehring]

Caught in the act of evolution, the odd-looking, feathered dinosaur was becoming more vegetarian, moving away from its meat-eating ancestors.
It had the built-for-speed legs of meat-eaters, but was developing the bigger belly of plant-eaters. It had already lost the serrated teeth needed for tearing flesh. Those were replaced with the smaller, duller vegetarian variety.

Becoming vegetarian? Isn't this called an omnivore?

[savedbygrace]

The most important member of the evolutionist team is the graphic artist. LOL.

[mike182d]

You creationists love moving the goalposts.

There are no goal-posts to move on an infinitely long football field.

If evolution is true, there is no such thing as a "species" as every creature is a variation of the same thing. Basically, every creature becomes transitional. Speciation becomes nothing more than a man-made convention intended to categorize everything he sees into nice, neat, organized packages.

[plain talk]

I eat meat and plants. I wonder what I'm transitioning into....

Probably nothing. You and I apparently were not destined to evolve into the highest plane of human intellectual achievement which is to comprehend that over time "stuff happens, dude".

[narby]

If you start with a reptile and end up with a reptile, you haven't transititioned anything. But the Darwinists will kick to their ad hominem attacks to prove their intellectual superiority, regardless!

How to handle this?

I could say, factually, that you have no idea what you're talking about. But then you'd say that was ad hominem.

You do understand that they're talking about transition between two species, and that if both were still reptile they would still be transitional between species?

No, I guess you don't.

[mlc9852]

This is a much better article.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/kirkland.html

[narby]

How did we miss the feathers before?

Maybe they just don't fossilize well?