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Large, Mysterious Monster Fossil Puzzles Experts
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Posted on 05/04/2012 10:07:30 AM PDT by null and void
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Large being a relative term...
To: null and void; blam
It’s Godzilla’s coprolite!
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
Thud
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:17:02 AM PDT
by
HoneysuckleTN
(Where the woodbine twineth... || FUBO! OMG! ABO!)
To: null and void
Looks like Helen Thomas’ Freshman wardrobe...
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:22:08 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: null and void
450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati regionAnd it was a much better place.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:22:54 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Thud
You’ll note that these guys “discovered the large fossil spread out on the table.”
Whoever left it there might com eback looking for it.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:24:30 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Thud
You’ll note that these guys “discovered the large fossil spread out on the table.”
Whoever left it there might com eback looking for it.
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:24:40 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:34:35 AM PDT
by
khelus
To: All
Lots of it still around in Arizona...
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posted on
05/04/2012 10:39:53 AM PDT
by
az_gila
To: null and void
Wow! They found it spread out on the table! That's amazing!
Do they have any idea how it got there?
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:02:31 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
To: null and void
No mystery, this is just a fossil of the Multi-Lobed Monster, seven foot variety. Old thing, very old. And large too.
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:40:21 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:40:43 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Since the table is in a “lower layer” than the fossil,
it must be four hundred fifty ONE million years old.
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posted on
05/04/2012 11:42:42 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: null and void
It was obviously in the process of changing from something to something else, thus proving the theory of evolution.
To: null and void
I’d say it was a ‘Splatosaurus’, the remains of a dino embryo that was stepped on by another dino to abort the foetus to preserve the health of the mother. SPLAT!
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posted on
05/04/2012 12:10:03 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: az_gila
Do those make good nopales?
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posted on
05/04/2012 7:44:33 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
Probably, but picking them and preparing them can be painful...:^)
They are covered with a short prickly fuzz and well as the visible thorns.
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posted on
05/04/2012 9:14:34 PM PDT
by
az_gila
To: az_gila
Sounds like the
Opuntia ("Prickly Pear") that grows all over Texas, but which are not abundant here in the far northeast of the state. (Nor are they tall like in your photo...) Anybody who has ever contacted one quickly becomes familiar with those nasty tiny spines! :-(
There are special tools made just for removing the spines (large & small) without getting them in you:
This set includes an acrylic cutting board, and the tool at the left is made for holding the pads down while using the middle tool for "de-stickering" them. I'd think that some good tongs and a sharp regular knife for harvesting pads would be a good addition to the toolkit.
The above tools are pictured (and available) onlline at http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Articles/Ethnic-Unique-Foods-Ingredients-645/nopalitos.aspx.
Fortunately, my brother-in-law has a special cultivated spineless variety growing on his place in central Texas, and has offered me cuttings...
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I like most green vegetables, but, I've never eaten nopalitos -- so I don't know if they are worth the trouble...
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05/05/2012 9:04:54 AM PDT
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TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: HoneysuckleTN; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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Thanks HoneysuckleTN. UC Paleontologist David Meyer, left and Carlton Brett, right, flank Ron Fine, who discovered the large fossil spread out on the table. Odd that no one discovered it before.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:15:46 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: null and void
From what I’ve heard, seems Cinci could use a large filter feeder to help clean things up.
Maybe the sciencians should grow some of them things and let them loose?
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posted on
05/05/2012 10:23:22 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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