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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 Oh dear. |
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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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The early evolution of sabreteeth was for fighting not biting.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ng-not-biting/
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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.
![]() 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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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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Of course, if you can open your mouth wide enough big pointy teeth are quite a boon.
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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.
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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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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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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. It is nice to think that people enjoy reading through it.
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Thank you MT - your post is much appreciated!
It is nice to think that people enjoy reading through it. ![]() ![]() i'm guessing people are enjoying it
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...and now for more things...
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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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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 ![]() 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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you've made just over 900 posts and yet had over 48,000 views
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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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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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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 Quote:
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. That's a problem I've not heard about before.
“We’re in a constant battle with the roots,” Dr. Titus said. “They find the bones hundreds of years before we do.” |
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That's a problem I've not heard about before.
![]() 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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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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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! But will be viewing the programme shortly. But I am glad that you enjoyed it.
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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. ![]() For anyone interested in anatomy and dinosaurs, what's not to like!
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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! ![]() ![]() 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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