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That looks like a legitimate dragon.
Like a honest to god breath-fire-and-protect-my-gold fucking dragon. |
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I am surprised no one has asked what round?
Edit. Damn to slow |
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The girlfriend and I were just at that museum. I saw that dinosaur but didn't take a picture. Here is a stegosaurus they have:
Attached File The whole town of Drumheller is dinosaur themed. It's kind of funny. Attached File |
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Cool stuff. So somebody 'splain "how DID that tissue survive for millions of years?"
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Now scientists claim to have discovered preserved organic matter inside of 3.9 billion year old fossils in Australia.
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On the afternoon of March 21, 2011, a heavy-equipment operator named Shawn Funk was carving his way through the earth, unaware that he would soon meet a dragon. That Monday had started like any other at the Millennium Mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, operated by energy company Suncor. Hour after hour Funk’s towering excavator gobbled its way down to sands laced with bitumen—the transmogrified remains of marine plants and creatures that lived and died more than 110 million years ago. It was the only ancient life he regularly saw. In 12 years of digging he had stumbled across fossilized wood and the occasional petrified tree stump, but never the remains of an animal—and certainly no dinosaurs. But around 1:30, Funk’s bucket clipped something much harder than the surrounding rock. Oddly colored lumps tumbled out of the till, sliding down onto the bank below. Within minutes Funk and his supervisor, Mike Gratton, began puzzling over the walnut brown rocks. Were they strips of fossilized wood, or were they ribs? And then they turned over one of the lumps and revealed a bizarre pattern: row after row of sandy brown disks, each ringed in gunmetal gray stone. |
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Now scientists claim to have discovered preserved organic matter inside of 3.9 billion year old fossils in Australia. View Quote https://www.history.com/news/scientists-find-soft-tissue-in-75-million-year-old-dinosaur-bones |
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Did it have feathers? It better not have any fucking feathers. Who else wants to go T-Rex hunting? I'm not sure what the primary weapon would be, but... backup is a bow and arrow, so you can shoot your guide in the knee. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Those two just brought legit tears to my eyes. |
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A 3000 pound herbivore.
Either it ate most of the hours in a day to maintain that body size through an herbivore diet, or the quality of the plants it did eat was extremely high. Or, digestion was extremely efficient. That's a lot of weight to fuel every day. |
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I saw a documentary about something like this once. They used the preserved dna in the fossil and mixed it with an amphibians dna (making sure they were all the same sex so reproduction is impossible) last I saw they were real close to creating a living dinosaur. Had to shut it off early though, the hot pockets we're done..
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A 3000 pound herbivore. Either it ate most of the hours in a day to maintain that body size through an herbivore diet, or the quality of the plants it did eat was extremely high. That's a lot of weight to fuel every day. View Quote We weren't exactly Hunter gathering to build small log cabins in the woods to escape from our McMansions in the city back then. Assuming monkey people were around back then, I don't keep up with that stuff. |
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IME most of the people posting shit like that here are trolls. They seem to love trying to derail stuff like this. Note how early it started in this thread. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Remarkably well preserved specimen.
They can put those in a CT or MRI scanner and image preserved structures before cutting in. |
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View Quote I'm pretty sure I had one of those toys when I was 6 |
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I can’t see feathers
I was assured all dinosaurs had blue feathers |
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