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NEW DINOSAUR: Fossil Fingers Solve Bird Wing Mystery? [Dinosaur gives Creationists the finger]
NatGeo ^ | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | John Roach

Posted on 06/17/2009 3:50:48 PM PDT by xcamel

June 17, 2009—The fossil hand of a long-necked, ostrich-like dinosaur recently found in China may help solve the mystery of how bird wings evolved from dinosaur limbs, according to a new study.

The ancient digits belonged to a 159-million-year-old theropod dinosaur dubbed Limusaurus inextricabilis. Theropods are two-legged dinos thought to have given rise to modern birds.

Although it was a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the newfound dinosaur was a small herbivore, said study co-author James Clark, a biologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The animal was about 5.6 feet (1.7 meters) long and had relatively short, clawless forearms.

"Its head is [also] unusual because it doesn't have any teeth, so it would have had a beak of some sort, although not a sharp one," Clark said. (Related: "New Dinosaur Was Nut-Cracking 'Parrot.'")

Primitive feathers may have covered the dinosaur's body, but there is no direct evidence for that, noted Clark, whose work was funded in part by the National Geographic Society. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bird; dino; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; missinglink; paleontology
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To: xcamel

sputter, sputter. Which is the “new information,” completely contradicting the other?


21 posted on 06/17/2009 4:51:01 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: xcamel

I once took a pic of a several emu feet.

Whenever I see that pic, it never fails to throw me. The feet are exactly the same as most Dinos, exactly.


22 posted on 06/17/2009 4:54:54 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: gusopol3

You were the one who strode out like a neanderthal swinging the crevo club, now go back under your bridge, troll.


23 posted on 06/17/2009 4:55:08 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

I took no stance whatever, I simply pointed out you can’t have it both ways. But your over-interpretation of what I said tells a lot about your analytic ability.


24 posted on 06/17/2009 4:58:35 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Wiseghy
I have a fossil velociraptor footprint mounted that exactly matches emu foot (without the upper claw).
25 posted on 06/17/2009 5:00:49 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: gusopol3

Epic fail on the truth button.


26 posted on 06/17/2009 5:01:53 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Mr. K
"Wouldn’t an ‘evolving’ wing be a detriment to you health? until it became an ACTUAL wing?"

Details, details...

27 posted on 06/17/2009 5:03:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: count-your-change
"And they were found just at the right time, too."

And not very far from where Marco Polo said that his men had been frightened by the dynosaurs (Dragons).

28 posted on 06/17/2009 5:06:48 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor

see post #14, and add the CASSOWARY to the list.


29 posted on 06/17/2009 5:09:46 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

I agree, you ejected yourself as anyone capable of doing anything in a discussion other than throw spitballs.


30 posted on 06/17/2009 5:13:38 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

When you can’t refute the truth, insult the teller. How very “christian” of you.


31 posted on 06/17/2009 5:21:24 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: editor-surveyor

And they made chicken soup from them?


32 posted on 06/17/2009 5:23:39 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: xcamel

OK, here’s the truth: the finding of the dinosaur finger is one small piece of information that may fit one set of facts that has been presented but seems to be contradictory to another line of investigation that had been published as recently as last week. Thus, the writer of the headline on the article was wise, and humble, enough to include a “?” You, however, as the writer of the material enclosed in the parentheses, are the “truthteller” and your program is to display attitude rather than convey information, facts, evidence or context. But that’s OK, lots of people get by on flapping.


33 posted on 06/17/2009 5:31:22 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3
They are brackets, not parentheses.
And, as I stated, that line came from ‘wired magazine’, as a tongue-in-cheek subheadline.

Keep trying...you seem to have the “flapping” thing down pat.

34 posted on 06/17/2009 5:36:44 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel
And, as I stated, that line came from ‘wired magazine’, as a tongue-in-cheek subheadline.

To whom and where did you "state" it, an imaginary friend under your desk?

35 posted on 06/17/2009 5:46:27 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Mr. K

More of them are being found every day. Transitional forms do exist.


36 posted on 06/17/2009 6:20:39 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: xcamel

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37 posted on 06/17/2009 7:09:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: GAB-1955

I have never seen any. Just complete ‘finished’ products

You would think there would be many many more of this mutations that died off


38 posted on 06/17/2009 7:18:00 PM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: xcamel

None of the birds on your list have anything evolving. - All of the fossils of them are essentially the same as they are today (just like all the other animals are too)


39 posted on 06/17/2009 7:49:18 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: count-your-change

According to their diaries, they got the H___ outta there.


40 posted on 06/17/2009 7:50:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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