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Here is the general geologic history of Japan, in case you're wondering how the dinos got to the islands.
Hint: they weren't islands at the time, but rather land masses still attached to Asia (Cretaceous Period: 65-145 million years ago).

From Wikipedia:

"The islands of Japan are primarily the result of several large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian [~430 million years ago] to the Pleistocene [~1.5 million years ago] as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north.

Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.[1] The Strait of Tartary and the Korea Strait [gap between Japan and S.Korea] opened much later. ..."

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1 posted on 07/15/2015 9:53:12 AM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

I sure hope they put a live feed on the web then the eggs are getting ready to hatch...


2 posted on 07/15/2015 9:54:16 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: ETL

‘Life finds a way.”


3 posted on 07/15/2015 9:54:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ETL
There are not many rocks in Japan that are the right age to contain dinosaurs...

Wait! Rocks?!

I though they had established that dinosaurs came from eggs...

4 posted on 07/15/2015 9:55:39 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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5 posted on 07/15/2015 9:56:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: ETL
Harry Crumb: "You know, that may be worth something."

Mr. niteowl77

8 posted on 07/15/2015 10:07:44 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I wish I had better news for you, but the truth is that this thing is not worth fixing anymore.")
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To: ETL

Thx for posting this.


9 posted on 07/15/2015 10:10:36 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: ETL

Don’t let Daenerys get her hands on them.


13 posted on 07/15/2015 10:27:03 AM PDT by sphinx
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Watch this movie to find out what happens when Dino eggs are found in Japan.

http://www.club-mst3k.com/21-legend-of-the-dinosaurs

Not a great copy, but, it was EARLY MST3K


15 posted on 07/15/2015 12:42:17 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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