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China's 'Jurassic Park' yields feathered dinosaurs, earliest swimming mammal & strange salamanders
The London Daily Mail ^
| March 6, 2014
| Sarah Griffiths
Posted on 03/10/2014 10:22:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A 'Jurassic Park' in China was once home to dinosaurs that lived among early mammals, amphibians and other strange creatures 160 million years ago.
The extraordinary fossil bed contains the bones of pterosaurs - early mammals including the first known swimming mammal with a beaver-like tail, the earliest gliding mammal and feathered dinosaurs.
Their remarkably preserved remains were discovered in rocks beneath the Jehol Biota in north eastern China - a famous collection of 130 million-year-old fossils from the Cretaceous Period.
The latest discovery sheds light on life in the Middle-Upper Jurassic 30million years earlier when birds are believed to have evolved from feathered dinosaurs.
The newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossils have been named the Daohugou fossils or Daohugou Biota after a village near one of the six sites dug up and have been catalogued and described in detail....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: archaeology; china; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; science
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To: Salamander
Strange Chinese Salamander Ping!
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posted on
03/10/2014 10:31:52 PM PDT
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shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
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posted on
03/10/2014 10:48:56 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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posted on
03/10/2014 10:52:43 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
As I’ve always said: If it walks, crawls, swims, slithers, or flies and lives in China, it’s nervous.
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:01:52 PM PDT
by
lafroste
To: shibumi; Salamander
I'm farther up the evolutionary ladder.. hehe.
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:02:24 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: lafroste
bon apatite! ..good eats-chinese style.
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03/10/2014 11:04:39 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: shibumi
“strange salamanders”
This is redundant.
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:08:03 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:08:25 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: skinkinthegrass
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03/10/2014 11:09:04 PM PDT
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Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: lafroste
LOL
[oh, wait....eeeyew!]
;]
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:09:50 PM PDT
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Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Salamander
As I learned all too well back in 69-70 the answer to the question "What's for dinner?" over there is one word -
"Everything."
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03/10/2014 11:13:51 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: smokingfrog
So, you gonna be one from column A or two from column B.?
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:19:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: shibumi
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posted on
03/10/2014 11:39:09 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: tet68
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03/10/2014 11:41:17 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
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03/10/2014 11:49:33 PM PDT
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Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux)
To: Eagles6
To: 2ndDivisionVet; SunkenCiv; All
SC, you may want to repost this for your ping people.
To: shibumi
but you really try the boiled mice and beetles sometime. I did.
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03/11/2014 1:29:35 AM PDT
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lafroste
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