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Old 23-07-2015, 22:43
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Can you explain lost under water cities circa 8 to 12,000 years old?

http://www.rabbithole2.com/presentat...ties_found.htm
They can't explain anything on this planet before "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October... the year before Christ 4004"

Oh dear.
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Old 26-07-2015, 00:57
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Jurassic shag.

Two rex are going at it (rather roughly).

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e5MmgCbLos...s%2BWitton.jpg

The article where the image came from - the excellent Mark Witton - there are no bloody naked, scaly dinosaurs or pterosaurs on his website.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...-artworks.html

The early evolution of sabreteeth was for fighting not biting.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ng-not-biting/
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Old 26-07-2015, 01:11
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The early evolution of sabreteeth was for fighting not biting.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ng-not-biting/
I would have thought that was obvious. Like tusks, they extend too far from the mouth to be useful for eating, and they can't generate an opposing force/open their mouth wide enough to bite with them.
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Old 26-07-2015, 01:18
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I would have thought that was obvious. Like tusks, they extend too far from the mouth to be useful for eating, and they can't generate an opposing force/open their mouth wide enough to bite with them.
I early herbivores yes.

But gorgonopsids, and the sabre toothed cats (to name just a few groups) did a pretty good job afterwards in using them for predation.
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Old 26-07-2015, 01:26
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I early herbivores yes.

But gorgonopsids, and the sabre toothed cats (to name just a few groups) did a pretty good job afterwards in using them for predation.
Of course, if you can open your mouth wide enough big pointy teeth are quite a boon.
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Old 26-07-2015, 22:20
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Of course, if you can open your mouth wide enough big pointy teeth are quite a boon.
Indeed, for example Janet Street Porter is one of the most formidable predators the world has ever seen.
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Old 28-07-2015, 17:59
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A nice BBC article on the long reign of the Terror birds (Phorusrhacids) - carrying on the role of the dinosaurian apex predator until a only couple of million years ago.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...e-terror-birds
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Old 28-07-2015, 22:02
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The superb National Geographic documentary on a simulated Tyrannosaurus rex necropsy (not had time to watch it yet but the reviews were excellent).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNxTUkjQnU

Why some people (and bloody Hollywood) only like scaly, naked and non-feathered dinosaurs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33678744

This article explains why they are exactly 100% wrong.

http://www.australiangeographic.com....jurassic-world

The discovery that proves Ankylosaurs had very strong and powerful tongues - one for the ladies on here!

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....erful-tongues/
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Old 28-07-2015, 23:04
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Again, nothing personally to add alas, but this thread and indeed the updates are as usual, still excellent.

Please keep up the good work re the updates and bumps because I (and I am sure I'm not alone) have this and the other ones bookmarked and genuinely enjoy seeing the new stuff that gets added here. I've always been fascinated by this subject, and it's appreciated..

No need for a reply KS, but a fine fine thread.
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Old 29-07-2015, 01:35
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Again, nothing personally to add alas, but this thread and indeed the updates are as usual, still excellent.

Please keep up the good work re the updates and bumps because I (and I am sure I'm not alone) have this and the other ones bookmarked and genuinely enjoy seeing the new stuff that gets added here. I've always been fascinated by this subject, and it's appreciated..

No need for a reply KS, but a fine fine thread.
Thank you MT - your post is much appreciated!

It is nice to think that people enjoy reading through it.
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Old 29-07-2015, 02:08
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Thank you MT - your post is much appreciated!

It is nice to think that people enjoy reading through it.
you've made just over 900 posts and yet had over 48,000 views

i'm guessing people are enjoying it
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Old 29-07-2015, 21:17
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...and now for more things...

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Old 29-07-2015, 21:37
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I heard the Radio 4 show a couple of days ago about Dinosaurs in Cultural History

It was only mildly entertaining and didn't really include anything I didn't already know

Perhaps most interesting was the brief section on how the word 'dinosaur' came to be used in politics and more generally to mean old-fashioned, out of date etc

The US President Harry S Truman called the Republicans 'dinosaurs' because they belonged to a time before the New Deal
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Old 29-07-2015, 23:10
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I heard the Radio 4 show a couple of days ago about Dinosaurs in Cultural History

It was only mildly entertaining and didn't really include anything I didn't already know

Perhaps most interesting was the brief section on how the word 'dinosaur' came to be used in politics and more generally to mean old-fashioned, out of date etc

The US President Harry S Truman called the Republicans 'dinosaurs' because they belonged to a time before the New Deal
The term itself is now outdated as an insult since dinosaurs were/are superior in almost every respect to us poor mammals.

Why theropod teeth were so very strong (and notice the Gorgosaurus covered in feathers).

http://www.livescience.com/51672-the...ted-teeth.html

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-unique-...ficiently.html

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science...nimals-072815/

Some beautifully preserved Caribbean lizards trapped for eternity in amber.

http://smithsonianscience.si.edu/201...d-communities/
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Old 29-07-2015, 23:11
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you've made just over 900 posts and yet had over 48,000 views

i'm guessing people are enjoying it
Thanks planets.
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Old 01-08-2015, 21:26
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Iggy the Iguanodon (complete with the song written in it's honour all those years ago).

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/featu...-the-iguanodon

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science-...iggy-iguanodon

An article on the those mega-pterosaurs the azhdarchids.

With a bit of imagination (sadly lacking in the film) Jurassic World could have had these beasts prowling around like giant vampire bats and swallowing tourists like so many oysters.

http://gimpasaura.blogspot.co.uk/201...d-friends.html
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Old 02-08-2015, 23:19
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Utah’s ‘Grand Staircase’ Leads Back in Time to Dinosaur Shangri-La
There are a number of well-preserved Late Cretaceous sites in the western United States, including New Mexico’s San Juan Basin; the Judith River, the Two Medicine region and the Hell Creek formation in Montana; and Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. But the Kaiparowits stands out for the sheer number of well-preserved, unique fossils. Finds from this ancient ecosystem are challenging long-held assumptions about dinosaur physiology, evolution and environment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/sc...user+view&_r=0
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Old 02-08-2015, 23:43
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Utah’s ‘Grand Staircase’ Leads Back in Time to Dinosaur Shangri-La
There are a number of well-preserved Late Cretaceous sites in the western United States, including New Mexico’s San Juan Basin; the Judith River, the Two Medicine region and the Hell Creek formation in Montana; and Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. But the Kaiparowits stands out for the sheer number of well-preserved, unique fossils. Finds from this ancient ecosystem are challenging long-held assumptions about dinosaur physiology, evolution and environment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/sc...user+view&_r=0

Today the Kaiparowits is a craggy expanse of shrub-covered rock and sheer cliffs with little moisture; plants hungrily shoot their roots 30 feet down to suck calcium phosphate from still-buried fossils, sometimes destroying them in the process.

“We’re in a constant battle with the roots,” Dr. Titus said. “They find the bones hundreds of years before we do.”
That's a problem I've not heard about before.
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Old 03-08-2015, 01:43
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That's a problem I've not heard about before.
God uses the roots to destroy the evil fossils that Satan has placed within the rocks to fool Mankind!

A new species of Dromaeosaur ('raptor') with a superb sense of smell.

http://www.livescience.com/51710-new...rful-nose.html
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Old 03-08-2015, 19:34
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That's a problem I've not heard about before.
I'm surprised this phenomenon isn't more common with dinosaur fossils. In the "badlands" areas of the north and west USA where there's low rainfall, nutrient poor soils and more extreme temperatures, the plants have to adopt assorted survival strategies to retain and get access to moisture and nutriment and very deep (and damaging in this case) roots is one of those survival strategies.
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Old 03-08-2015, 19:45
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Finally got round to watching that T - Rex dissection over the weekend and as long as you can forgive the artistic license they understandably use, it was pretty interesting.

I would have preferred it it they'd done it with the team from Inside Natures Giants but you can't have everything!
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Old 03-08-2015, 23:32
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Finally got round to watching that T - Rex dissection over the weekend and as long as you can forgive the artistic license they understandably use, it was pretty interesting.

I would have preferred it it they'd done it with the team from Inside Natures Giants but you can't have everything!
I have not seen it myself yet!

But will be viewing the programme shortly.

But I am glad that you enjoyed it.
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Old 04-08-2015, 23:10
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A short guide to Ichthyosaurs.

http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/a...-ichthyosaurs/
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Old 05-08-2015, 17:30
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I have not seen it myself yet!

But will be viewing the programme shortly.

But I am glad that you enjoyed it.
I certainly did enjoy it and hadn't been able to find it since it was first mentioned on here so the link was much appreciated.

For anyone interested in anatomy and dinosaurs, what's not to like!
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Old 06-08-2015, 09:53
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I certainly did enjoy it and hadn't been able to find it since it was first mentioned on here so the link was much appreciated.

For anyone interested in anatomy and dinosaurs, what's not to like!
Exactly.

Fractofusus was a hot sex machine.

http://www.livescience.com/51725-ear...roduction.html

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/thi...go-23513923511

http://news.discovery.com/animals/ol...ves-150803.htm

Mark Witton's suggestions for the future of the Jurassic Park franchise.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...rk-movies.html
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