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The Palaeontology thread
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Keyser_Soze1
17-06-2016
Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world.

Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.
Keyser_Soze1
18-06-2016
The Hadrosaur ('duck-billed' dinosaur) Anatosaurus was truly massive when a mature adult, the perfect storm of humans and climate change that spelled doom for the megafauna in the Americas, the earliest known example of a large animal moving on it's own across the seabed and finally some new footprints of Homo erectus have been discovered.

http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=549

http://www.livescience.com/55113-hum...megafauna.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ng-on-its-own/

http://www.seeker.com/800000-year-ol...864725487.html
archiver
18-06-2016
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world. ”

It is frightening and followers of such types seem spoilt for choice these days and I keep getting David Grohl lyrics on my internal radio.

Quote:
“Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.”

Way I think of it is that people in those quite recent times would have had mental capacity identical to our own. But without the advantage of historical knowledge of how they got there and how language developed, they (everyone from rulers to storytellers) could only try to fill the huge gaps in their understanding (to the satisfaction of their subjects and customers respectively) with feasible guesses.

Wouldn't take many generations to forget that that's all the religions and superstitions of the time were based on and they'd likely resent any suggestion to that effect. At least they built durable artefacts to amaze us...

Didn't ISIS exclaim that Egyptians wouldn't be permitted to build any more pyramids under Sharia law?
Keyser_Soze1
20-06-2016
Originally Posted by archiver:
“It is frightening and followers of such types seem spoilt for choice these days and I keep getting David Grohl lyrics on my internal radio.

Way I think of it is that people in those quite recent times would have had mental capacity identical to our own. But without the advantage of historical knowledge of how they got there and how language developed, they (everyone from rulers to storytellers) could only try to fill the huge gaps in their understanding (to the satisfaction of their subjects and customers respectively) with feasible guesses.

Wouldn't take many generations to forget that that's all the religions and superstitions of the time were based on and they'd likely resent any suggestion to that effect. At least they built durable artefacts to amaze us...

Didn't ISIS exclaim that Egyptians wouldn't be permitted to build any more pyramids under Sharia law? ”

A very good post.

The Devonian fish (Qingmenodus yui) gives a unique insight into early the early evolution of crown Sarcopterygians (of which we as Tetrapods are a member).

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-devonia...hts-early.html

The truly gigantic ammonite Parapuzosia.

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...mesozoic-deep/

Anatosaurus may not have reached quite the massive dimensions in the article I posted (the rex was far too small) - here is a more realistic size comparison.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...-no/karo-8.png
Keyser_Soze1
24-06-2016
A nice little video on the remarkable living fishing rod Tanystropheus, Australian fossil hunters and the little known but gigantic azhdarchid pterosaur Arambourgiania philadelphiae.

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

http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/dinos.../#gPemHe4m0OqW

http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/women.../#U6WBcWYBumqp

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...ourgiania.html
Keyser_Soze1
26-06-2016
More musings on Dromaeosaurids and cannibalism in the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus torosus.

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discov...of-cannibalism

http://images.earthtouchnews.com/med...2015-05-09.jpg

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...n-part_24.html
Keyser_Soze1
28-06-2016
This is simply incredible - the discovery of the wings of enantiornithine birds that have been preserved for all eternity in amber.

http://www.seeker.com/dinosaur-era-b...888458950.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...nantiornithes/

http://www.livescience.com/55211-din...-in-amber.html

http://www.livescience.com/55208-pho...-in-amber.html
Keyser_Soze1
02-07-2016
The forgotten genius of Baron Franz Nopcsa, how pterosaurs flew as such gigantic sizes and Mark Witton's new book is out.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...959504/?no-ist

https://theconversation.com/pterosau...anage-it-60892

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...ng-age-of.html
CLL Dodge
02-07-2016
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“Creationist w****r Ray Comfort demolishes the Big Bang theory (and no it's not satire).

"Now according to the atheists and scientists, everything in the universe started at one single point and eventually traveled to their current locations. But how is that possible?

"I think we all can agree that the pineapple is one of nature's strongest fruits. But even considering its incredible strength, it's hard to imagine pineapples surviving the trip all the way from the center of the universe to Earth.

"Maybe rocks, mountains, and even oceans can voyage through deep space. But what about the rest of God's creation? How did things like pineapples, carrots or goats travel all that way? God must have created them, right here on Earth."

Forget about pineapples though as he has already slaughtered evolution with his Banana demonstration.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

What is so frightening is that this nutjob has followers all over the world.

Funnily enough the religions that make the most sense to me are those so called 'primitive' ones that worship nature (for example by tribes like the Waorani) or the sun such as by the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201...es-for-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Yahweh is not an entity I would wish to worship.”

I guess he's not a Catholic then. The "Big Bang" theory was devised by priest Georges Lemaître. The Pope wanted to declare that Big Bang theory provided a scientific validation basis for Catholicism but Lemaître (wisely) insisted that science and religion be kept apart.
Keyser_Soze1
05-07-2016
The fossil history of deep-sea bone eating worms and the Kalligrammatid lacewings ('butterflies' long before there were modern butterflies).

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-eating-worms/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...ower-in-sight/
CLL Dodge
05-07-2016
Humans may have wiped out "Hobbits":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...y-modern-huma/
Keyser_Soze1
06-07-2016
The first known example of a facial tumour in a dinosaur (the dwarf-duckbill Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus) and a CT scan of Euparkeria capensis that reveals the evolutionary origins of the Archosaurian inner-ear.

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/20...-dinosaur.page

http://www.livescience.com/55287-duc...had-tumor.html

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-compute...evolution.html
Dirty Rooster
06-07-2016
This thread popped up and I found this quote ;
Originally Posted by spiney2:
“i'm a mammal and dinosaurs just get on my tits .....”

Dinosaurs were too thick for that one.
Keyser_Soze1
06-07-2016
Originally Posted by Dirty Rooster:
“This thread popped up and I found this quote ;

Dinosaurs were too thick for that one.”

I don't remember that!
Keyser_Soze1
08-07-2016
Various palaeo stories.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-o...welsh-11576521

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...aur-migration/

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...leptoceratops/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...e-root-of-fur/

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...it-really.html
Keyser_Soze1
12-07-2016
A few more palaeo links.

http://www.livescience.com/55319-amb...ed-spider.html

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...gain-part.html

http://news.utexas.edu/2016/07/11/di...oed-like-doves

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-a-titanosaur/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ely-180959749/
Keyser_Soze1
13-07-2016
A veritable shitload of palaeo links.

https://www.inverse.com/article/1801...s-world-record

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...e-controversy/

http://paleoking.blogspot.co.uk/2016...ust-weird.html

http://paleoking.blogspot.co.uk/2016...gets-even.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...-horned-fangs/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...ead-ostriches/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...ce-age-injury/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...5b1_video.html

http://www.kdlt.com/news/local-news/...vered/40454270

http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2...n-the-badlands

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...briela-sobral/

http://www.livescience.com/55394-din...tiny-arms.html

http://www.seeker.com/new-meat-lovin...920133848.html

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/...-independently

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ative-of-t-rex
Keyser_Soze1
17-07-2016
The non-avian dinosaur extinction, the mysterious evolution of humans in Asia and some heroes in a half shell.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elemen...-the-dinosaurs

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-fossil-...on-modern.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...efence/491087/

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-real-turtles-shells.html

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m...jpg?1468410081
Keyser_Soze1
21-07-2016
Dinosaurs literally reshaped the earth, Belemnites and the new Megaraptoran theropod Murusraptor barrosaensis.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...net-180959814/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...he-belemnites/

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...d-murusraptor/

http://www.seeker.com/new-meat-eatin...934424069.html
Dirty Rooster
21-07-2016
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“A Anatosaurus may not have reached quite the massive dimensions in the article I posted (the rex was far too small) - here is a more realistic size comparison.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...-no/karo-8.png”

Was that picture created by an avid reader of early 2000 A.D. ?
Keyser_Soze1
22-07-2016
Originally Posted by Dirty Rooster:
“Was that picture created by an avid reader of early 2000 A.D. ?”

I remember Flesh!

Old One Eye and Satanus!

A few recent stories (including f****** Pokemon).

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-wildebe...d-similar.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-inspirations/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...oom-180959868/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-of-patagonia/
Fairyprincess0
22-07-2016
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“I remember Flesh!

Old One Eye and Satanus!

A few recent stories (including f****** Pokemon).

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-wildebe...d-similar.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-inspirations/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...oom-180959868/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-of-patagonia/”

You can get archaeopteryx's on pokemon????

Argghh!!!! I want it even more now. Damn my cheap loser phone!!!!!
Keyser_Soze1
22-07-2016
Originally Posted by Fairyprincess0:
“You can get archaeopteryx's on pokemon????

Argghh!!!! I want it even more now. Damn my cheap loser phone!!!!!”

I remember that they are your favourite dinosaur.
Keyser_Soze1
24-07-2016
Radio interview with Denver palaeontologist Tyler Lyson about the evolution of the turtle shell as an adaptation for digging rather than defense - the article also includes photos and a brief informative video.

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/why-d...gist-found-out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphNApmSZ0U

More on Dr Mark Witton's new book - 'Recreating an Age of Reptiles' - one of my favourite of his superb illustrations being the Bronto-smash!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...tton-dinosaurs

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7bcc...sm=12&fit=max&
Keyser_Soze1
26-07-2016
A new index reveals what prehistoric mammals were aquatic, semi-aquatic or terrestrial, North America's largest dinosaur the armoured behemoth Alamosaurus, huge foot prints of Smilodon, the most famous of the Pterosaurs - Pteranodon, the possible arboreal habits of the heterodontosaurid Manidens condorensis and finally the origins of life on earth.

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-index-r...l-aquatic.html

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...inosaur-titan/

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/sc...jpg?1469420632

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discov...d-in-argentina

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

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...elling-habits/

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancesto...vironment.html
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