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Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic
Yahoo/LiveScience.com ^ | 26 April 2009 | Stephan Reebs

Posted on 04/26/2009 10:00:37 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback

You know the scenario: 65 million years ago, a big meteor crash sets off volcanoes galore, dust and smoke fill the air, dinosaurs go belly up.

One theory holds that cold, brought on by the Sun's concealment, is what did them in, but a team of paleontologists led by Pascal Godefroit, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, argues otherwise. Some dinosaurs (warm-blooded, perhaps) were surprisingly good at withstanding near-freezing temperatures,

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KEYWORDS: paleontology
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Here's the money line:

"It's true the Arctic was much warmer back then, but it wasn't any picnic. The size and shape of fossilized leaves found with the bones enabled Godefroit's team to estimate a mean annual temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit, with wintertime lows at freezing."

Wait...sites above the Arctic had temps like that? How is that possible when there were no SUVs?

1 posted on 04/26/2009 10:00:37 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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How can this be?? I thought the Earth was only six thousand years old..


2 posted on 04/26/2009 10:02:54 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Now a member of the NRA)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I thought Helen Thomas was from Lebanon?


3 posted on 04/26/2009 10:04:45 AM PDT by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: Mr. Silverback

“Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic”.....We have a lot in DC also. Would term limits have helped the Dinosaurs?


4 posted on 04/26/2009 10:05:25 AM PDT by RC2 (FREEDOM)
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It seems to me...the minute you dig up any dino bones in the Arctic...then this entire “save-the-carbon-save-the-arctic” argument goes down the tubes.

One of the interesting things about human beings...is that we adapted. We moved...we sustained ourselves....we found reasons to change...we migrated...we were willing to be different. As I gaze at environmentalists...I see the least changeable group of humans in existence today.


5 posted on 04/26/2009 10:08:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Wait...sites above the Arctic had temps like that? How is that possible when there were no SUVs?

Dinosaurs were very large animals. Could dinosaur flatulence have been at work here?

6 posted on 04/26/2009 10:09:50 AM PDT by D Rider
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Minnesotans For Global Warming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=PlayList&p=1B4B1FE9A28F4998&index=0&playnext=1


7 posted on 04/26/2009 10:18:05 AM PDT by anglian (0bama's Stealth Reparations: "Mouthfulls of 'Gimme' and handfulls of 'Much 0bliged'")
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To: umgud
you just wrecked my monitor & keyboard
8 posted on 04/26/2009 10:18:53 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama - the ethically waivered administration)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Must have been all that methane. :-)


9 posted on 04/26/2009 10:19:55 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: KevinDavis

Well, okay. 7000.


11 posted on 04/26/2009 10:21:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: pepsionice
One of the interesting things about human beings...is that we adapted. We moved...we sustained ourselves....we found reasons to change...we migrated...we were willing to be different. As I gaze at environmentalists...I see the least changeable group of humans in existence today.

Even if the Earth does get warmer (which I don't think will happen), what it will mainly mean is that vast stretches of Canada and Siberia now become more habitable.

12 posted on 04/26/2009 10:22:18 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: KevinDavis

Your request for a crevo kerfuffle is denied.


13 posted on 04/26/2009 10:23:15 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: umgud

Rimshot!


14 posted on 04/26/2009 10:24:32 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Is that a pastry?


15 posted on 04/26/2009 10:24:36 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: pepsionice
...I see the least changeable group of humans in existence today.

Nicely put.

16 posted on 04/26/2009 10:25:05 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
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have they found eeevil SUV fossils? I’m sure that’s what caused it.


17 posted on 04/26/2009 10:25:45 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: D Rider

Hmmmm...could be. Guess I should rethink my doubts and replace my Ford SportTrac with a PUMA.


18 posted on 04/26/2009 10:26:04 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
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To: PapaBear3625

Right, the article mentions drift, but the scientists estimate the site was stil wel above the Arctic Circle.


19 posted on 04/26/2009 10:27:11 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!


20 posted on 04/26/2009 10:27:39 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're definitely in the Rise of the Empire era, but is Obama Valorum or Palpatine?)
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