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New Dino Resembles T. Rex, B. Bunny
AFP via Discovery News ^
| 9/17/2002
| AFP
Posted on 09/18/2002 12:41:30 PM PDT by SteveH
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What next, a dino that resembles Foghorn Leghorn?
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:41:30 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: SteveH
LIke this, only with fangs?
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:43:42 PM PDT
by
lsee
To: SteveH
Sounds more like my first exwife....A very ugly critter fersure!
To: SteveH
The prophet Monty Python was right!
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:47:33 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: SteveH
Just checked the link. That photo is strange. Does this suggest that these forms were herbivores? Also, this creature appears to have feathers. I wonder if this is artistic license or do they have evidence of feathers?
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:47:56 PM PDT
by
stanz
To: SteveH
It's all true I saw it on this documentary called Night of the Lepus!!
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:49:47 PM PDT
by
amused
To: mhking
Paging Jimmy Carter......we now have a mug shot of that "Killer Rabbit"...that attacked you.
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:50:52 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: SteveH
Ohhhh..that wascally weptile!
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posted on
09/18/2002 12:52:48 PM PDT
by
TopDog2
To: SteveH
bump for tracking
To: mhking
Perhaps it'd confuse it, if we ran away more.
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posted on
09/18/2002 1:00:18 PM PDT
by
Sloth
To: Sloth
Shut up and change your armour.
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posted on
09/18/2002 1:02:42 PM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: mhking
The prophet Monty Python was right! Bring out the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
To: stanz
Just checked the link. That photo is strange. Does this suggest that these forms were herbivores? Also, this creature appears to have feathers. I wonder if this is artistic license or do they have evidence of feathers?
I am not convinced. It is however probably easiest for scientists to explain the unknown in terms of the known-- here, for example, we are asked to believe that this creature actually had a lifestyle resembling that of a large tuber-eating, burrowing varmint. They probably threw in the feathers to satisfy the latest in dinosaur theory fashion (warm blooded, hollow boned, bird ancestor, etc.)
Personally, I would have rendered it to look more like the recent descriptions of Chupacabra. (Guess that explains why I am not a paleontologist. :O)
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posted on
09/18/2002 1:07:16 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: SteveH
What next, a dino that resembles Foghorn Leghorn?
Since many dinosaurs had feathers, they already resemble Foghorn Leghorn - with teeth instead of a beak.
To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
But did they sound more like Mel Blanc or Kenny Delmar?
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posted on
09/18/2002 1:22:05 PM PDT
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Gumlegs
To: SteveH
It's not just "the latest fashion" or quesswork; many dino fossils have impressions in the rock left by feathers, so scientiests
know that many dinosaurs had feathers. The only question is which ones did, or if they all did. Also, very large animals would probably not have noticeable feathers, so as not to overheat - for example, think of large mammals like hippos, rhinos, or elephants, who are mammals, have hair, but the hair is thin, sparse, and not very obvious. Smaller dinos, esp. the two legged variety, seem to be the most likely to have large amounts of feathers.
Birds are simply dinosaurs with wings instead of arms, and beaks instead of teeth. Otherwise they are much like dinosaurs.
To: Gumlegs
But did they sound more like Mel Blanc or Kenny Delmar?
There are some mysteries we are not worthy to know the answer to. :-)
To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
That's a joke son! Joke, that is.
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posted on
09/18/2002 1:25:25 PM PDT
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Gumlegs
To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
they are much like dinosaurs Picture dinos clustered on the power line and burying the car in droppings.
To: RightWhale
Yeah, and the cars can't even get out of the way because it's before all the dinos decomposed into oil!
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09/18/2002 1:29:29 PM PDT
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Gumlegs
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