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Posted on 08/13/2003 9:02:05 PM PDT by nwrep
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By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India - U.S. and Indian scientists said Wednesday they have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur species in India after finding bones in the western part of the country.
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The new dinosaur species was named Rajasaurus narmadensis, or "Regal reptile from the Narmada," after the Narmada River region where the bones were found.
The dinosaurs were between 25-30 feet long, had a horn above their skulls, were relatively heavy and walked on two legs, scientists said. They preyed on long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs on the Indian subcontinent during the Cretaceous Period at the end of the dinosaur age, 65 million years ago.
"It's fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of dinosaurs came to a close," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America."
Working with Indian scientists, Sereno and paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan reconstructed the dinosaur skull in a project funded partly by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society.
A model of the assembled skull was presented Wednesday by the American scientists to their counterparts from Punjab University in northern India and the Geological Survey of India during a Bombay news conference.
Scientists said they hope the discovery will help explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the shifting of the continents — how India separated from Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica and collided with Asia.
The dinosaur bones were discovered during the past 18 years by Indian scientists Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India and Ashok Sahni, a paleontologist at Punjab University.
When the bones were examined, "we realized we had a partial skeleton of an undiscovered species," Sereno said.
The scientists said they believe the Rajasaurus roamed the Southern Hemisphere land masses of present-day Madagascar, Africa and South America.
"People don't realize dinosaurs are the only large-bodied animal that lived, evolved and died at a time when all continents were united," Sereno said.
The cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is still debated by scientists. The Rajasaurus discovery may provide crucial clues, Sereno said.
India has seen quite a few paleontological discoveries recently.
In 1997, villagers discovered about 300 fossilized dinosaur eggs in Pisdura, 440 miles northeast of Bombay, that Indian scientists said were laid by four-legged, long-necked vegetarian creatures.
Indian scientists said the dinosaur embryos in the eggs may have suffocated during volcanic eruptions.
Oh, that's it? You're sorry? That's supposed to make it all better? I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes, weaping over your endless insults (you even dared to say "offended" instead of "insulted") and all you can do is say you're sorry. Y'know what? You're a poophead!
Probably the best description ever made of me here on FR! :-)
Have you? If you had any honor you would not have even signed it. But then, if you had any honor you would not be going around posting private correspondence either.
"Grim Weaper" placemarker...
That was uncalled for, rude, and insulting. You owe her a BIG apology.
ALS's. For which purpose the atheist evolutionists dishonored and mocked the promises they had made less than 24 hours before. And the proof is at Post 2496, Post# 2541, Post# 2619 , and Post# 2688 of the Phoebe Debates thread.
If you had any honor you would not have even signed it. But then, if you had any honor you would not be going around posting private correspondence either.Under the agreement, if we the complying posters observe a poster causing a problem on a thread, we are obligated under the agreement to first politely ask that the poster come into compliance using words such as the following:
546 posted on 08/17/2003 4:02 PM EDT by gore3000
"Hey gore3000, that post of yours (546) was a bit provocative. Under our agreement, the actions of provocateurs, trolls, spammers, and disruptors are prohibited, as is the use of obscene or belittling words to describe another poster or his beliefs. I understand that you're momentarily swept up in the debate, but please restrain yourself."So you've had your polite warning, gore3000. Please remember this. And also remember:
If the non-complying poster (whether the poster has signed the agreement or not) continues to provoke, troll, spam or disrupt then warnings will be posted to others on the threads, to avoid posting to non-complying poster (or a specific non-complying poster) since it could lead to flame wars, etc.
If the conduct continues, any of the otherwise complying posters may engage the non-complying posting with harsh language otherwise prohibited by the agreement. However, there is never any obligation on a complying poster at any time to refrain from pressing abuse on a non-complying poster.
gore3000, since you have signed the agreement, I am now notifying you that your post (546) is inflammatory per se, and thus in violation of our agreement under the Language Clause not to use belittling words, and under the Disclosure clause, providing: "We will not bring an accusation against another poster or his beliefs without also bringing, on the same post, the evidence for that accusation."
[95% of this language is from prior posts by Alamo-Girl. I've changed a few words to fit the occasion.]
Sorry, I will not discuss him.
You have the gall to compare Alamo-Girl to Scott Peterson?
This is outrageous!
Another example of pishpoor deshign.
I withdrew from the agreement because it had been turned into a weapon for insult and incivility. Your hypocrisy and that of your fellow evolutionists is abundantly proven in the links in my post above.
Isn't that what you did prior to your sham agreement? I seem to remember Blue-skipping placemarkers and Slime posts along with other little demeaning tidbits.
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