1 posted on
05/17/2005 11:53:22 AM PDT by
doc30
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To: PatrickHenry
2 posted on
05/17/2005 11:53:45 AM PDT by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: doc30
Dino bling ping! Stego-fizzle fo' shizzle!
3 posted on
05/17/2005 11:55:27 AM PDT by
pikachu
(Your milage may vary and objects in the mirror may be uglier than the appear!)
To: All
Great thinkers at work. (Quiet, please.)
4 posted on
05/17/2005 11:58:32 AM PDT by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: doc30
The bizarre plates and spikes that lined the backbones of the long-extinct stegosaur[us] were probably extreme examples of the often elaborate and colorful displays developed by animals to recognize fellow members of their species...
Well, it explains the genesis and function of punk hairdos.
5 posted on
05/17/2005 12:00:40 PM PDT by
GSlob
To: doc30
It makes them more interesting to look at, which makes them more likely to feature in movie dinosaur fights.
7 posted on
05/17/2005 12:03:02 PM PDT by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: doc30
8 posted on
05/17/2005 12:04:31 PM PDT by
Alouette
(Muslims bite the hand that feeds them, and kiss the boot that kicks them.)
To: doc30
Like most of us old dinosaurs, the spikes are for looks only.
9 posted on
05/17/2005 12:05:09 PM PDT by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: doc30
10 posted on
05/17/2005 12:05:13 PM PDT by
js1138
(e unum pluribus)
To: doc30
"Our studies of bone histology are telling us a lot about dinosaur social behavior and lifestyle,"
I bet this will be pretty amusing in 100 years or so.
11 posted on
05/17/2005 12:06:30 PM PDT by
bkepley
To: doc30
Gives new meaning to: "If looks could kill......."
12 posted on
05/17/2005 12:07:48 PM PDT by
QwertyKPH
(Non-profane tagline)
To: doc30
How would you tell a female fossil from a male fossil?
13 posted on
05/17/2005 12:10:15 PM PDT by
mlc9852
To: doc30
My parrots ruffle their feathers as emotional expressions (when they're pissed/ puzzled, etc.)...not unlike when the hair stands up on a dog or cat's back. So it might be that the plates were a communication device?
14 posted on
05/17/2005 12:12:49 PM PDT by
elli1
To: doc30
The team's analysis of stegosaur plates lends support to a growing consensus among paleontologists that the weird adornments of many dinosaurs - the horns of triceratops, the helmet-like domes of the pachycephalosaurs, and the crests of the duck-billed hadrosaurs - likely served no function other than to differentiate species, akin to birds' colorful feather ornamentation. Maybe I'm missing it, but why wouldn't some of these things serve as defensive features in addition to recognition mechanisms? A triceratops' horns seem like pretty good weapons, for example.
20 posted on
05/17/2005 12:18:17 PM PDT by
Modernman
("Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde)
To: doc30
Stegosaurs were elephantine plant eaters that populated the world during the Jurassic period, about 210 to 144 million years ago Nonsense, Adam and Eve had one for a pet 6000 years ago. That's why they are mentioned so many times in Genesis.
< /sarcasm>
To: doc30
Oh yeah?!? My horn's bigger than yours!
24 posted on
05/17/2005 12:30:01 PM PDT by
eagle11
(EPISODE 3 in 2 Days!)
To: doc30
The evolutionists change their tune a lot. They'll tell you one day that animals develop traits for a purpose and they will tell you the next day that a mutation randomly occurred that would give some animal an advantage over another.
To: doc30
- the horns of triceratops Like the rhino, the buffalo and the longhorn .. these horn most assuredly had a function. Disemboweling a T-Rex.
30 posted on
05/17/2005 12:35:08 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
("THE REDNECK PROBLEM" ..... we prefer the term, "Agro-Americans")
To: doc30
Baloney.
Developing those plates required a lot of energy and if there is anything biology demonstrates it is that living organisms don't waste energy needlessly - its too expensive from a cost effective perspective.
Even rudimentary spurs at the rear of Booid snakes, the remnants of the pelvic girdle, serve a function - they "stimulate the female during courtship.
These guys should go back to the drawing board. If something exists, it exists for a reason - even if we haven't been able to figure it out definitively.
God doesn't place dice with the Universe" - Albert Einstein.
42 posted on
05/17/2005 12:46:53 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: doc30
The name for the Stegosaurus tail spikes is "thagomizer" (from a Far Side cartoon).
To: doc30
Berkeley - The bizarre plates and spikes that lined the backbones of the long-extinct stegosaurs were
probably extreme examples of the often elaborate and colorful displays developed by animals to recognize fellow members of their species, according to an international team of paleontologists.
In Berkeley.. probably.. can assume astronomical credibility as fact.. All of evolution is based in that word.. probably.. This probably happened, that probably happened..
If a bullfrog had wings he probably wouldn't bump his ass.. Bumping ass in the San Fransisco area is a queer phenomenon in the first place.. and not looked down upon unless your the bumper.. And thats probably an accurate assessment..
63 posted on
05/17/2005 1:49:55 PM PDT by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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