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Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media (including the remains of an enormous "platypus")
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| 12/30/08
| AFP
Posted on 12/30/2008 10:26:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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A Museum worker cleans fossils in Hohhot. Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus" (AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
To: NormsRevenge
But I thought Godzilla was Japanese?
To: NormsRevenge
It’s almost as if the Dinosaurs were a huge experiment by God, and He decided to go a different direction. Wiped the slate clean and started over.
It will be fascinating to one day see what actually happened back then.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:29:02 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(We are sooooo screwed.)
Terra Daily
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:29:17 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
To: NormsRevenge
(including the remains of an enormous "platypus")So Michael Moore is Chinese?
To: NormsRevenge
...the discovery of so many dinosaurs in such a dense area could provide clues on how the animals became extinct towards the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago...
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:32:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: NormsRevenge
included in the find was the largest "platypus" -- or "duck-billed dinosaur" in Chinese -- ever discovered measuring nine metres high with a wingspan wider than 16 metres, the report said. Huh?
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:32:44 AM PST
by
doodad
To: NormsRevenge
Wingspan?
A flying Platypus?
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:34:16 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: brownsfan
God made the dinosaurs so we’d have oil. :D
To: Red Badger
I want to drink with Gary Larson.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:36:41 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: brownsfan
Its almost as if the Dinosaurs were a huge experiment by God, and He decided to go a different direction. Wiped the slate clean and started over. Dinosaurs still exist. You can get them tastily prepared at your neighborhood KFC.
-ccm
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:37:26 AM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: NormsRevenge
Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media You don't say! Our one-party media is a dinosaur too.
-ccm
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:39:16 AM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: NormsRevenge
When my oldest daughter was 5 she came to me one day and said that there was no Easter Bunny.
Curious as to how she learned this fact I asked her why she would say that?
"Because bunnies are mammals and mammals don't lay eggs," she replied.
I then owned up and told her that the Easter Bunny was only a trick to take attention away from the real mammal that laid eggs, the Easter Duckbill Platypus so that no one would bother him.
She put out cookies for "Bill" after that.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:39:44 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
To: massgopguy
I want to drink with Gary Larson. Somehow I don't think alcohol was his inspiration. Call it a hunch.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:41:02 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
To: NormsRevenge
” the remains of ankylosaurus,”
Long lost relative of mrs. clintoon’s.
To: NormsRevenge
A devout Catholic woman once made the case to me that A) dinosaur bones were put in the ground by the devil or B) the results showing dinosaur bones were millions of years old were a trick by the devil.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:54:02 AM PST
by
exist
To: NormsRevenge
After the Creosote extinctions, mammals were able to take advantage of the fact that they were endothermic (liked flowers), placental (had bad breath) and quadrupedal (didn't know any better) to spread and diversify.
In the Tutelary Age, mammals became the dominant class and grew quite large at times. The great Irish bunny, for example, often had antlers eight feet across.
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posted on
12/30/2008 10:54:23 AM PST
by
Tarantulas
( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
To: Tarantulas
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:00:16 AM PST
by
pappyone
(New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
12/30/2008 11:04:21 AM PST
by
skimask
(Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
To: NormsRevenge
Looks to me like a rare “reporterosaurus journalisticus” an extinct creature from the old USA period. It evolved in to the current “drivebyosuras rex” found in plentiful quantities in the river “mainstream medius”.
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