UM-Bot Posted October 22, 2017 #1 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Palaeontologists have unearthed the skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur dating back over 76 million years. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/312659/near-complete-tyrannosaur-fossil-found-in-utah 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 22, 2017 #2 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Wow, great find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted October 22, 2017 #3 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Seriously, what an awesome find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthseeker007 Posted October 22, 2017 #4 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Nice find but where are the pictures? Did I miss them somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthseeker007 Posted October 22, 2017 #5 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I found this picture but that's about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likely Guy Posted October 23, 2017 #6 Share Posted October 23, 2017 3 hours ago, Truthseeker007 said: Nice find but where are the pictures? Did I miss them somewhere? They never really look that impressive in situ. We have to wait until it's transported and cleaned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthseeker007 Posted October 23, 2017 #7 Share Posted October 23, 2017 16 hours ago, Likely Guy said: They never really look that impressive in situ. We have to wait until it's transported and cleaned. Have you ever transported or cleaned them yourself? That would be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likely Guy Posted October 23, 2017 #8 Share Posted October 23, 2017 5 hours ago, Truthseeker007 said: Have you ever transported or cleaned them yourself? That would be interesting. No, I haven't. Just what I've seen in documentaries and Nat. Geo. Maybe in my next life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted October 24, 2017 #9 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I am dedicating my skeletal structure to Science, only if they promise to exhibit my bones straddling a T Rex ... ~ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted October 24, 2017 #10 Share Posted October 24, 2017 We all know how cold parts of Utah can get. Yet at one time it was warm enough for a T-Rex. If what ever casued the ice age didn't happen, would we be here today? Makes you wonder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted October 25, 2017 #11 Share Posted October 25, 2017 21 hours ago, paperdyer said: We all know how cold parts of Utah can get. Yet at one time it was warm enough for a T-Rex. If what ever casued the ice age didn't happen, would we be here today? Makes you wonder. I don't understand? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted October 25, 2017 #12 Share Posted October 25, 2017 3 hours ago, oldrover said: I don't understand? I think he might be saying that the Ice Age caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, but I'm not sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted October 25, 2017 #13 Share Posted October 25, 2017 I would settle for finding a tooth or perhaps a claw to wear round my neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted October 25, 2017 #14 Share Posted October 25, 2017 4 hours ago, Carnoferox said: I think he might be saying that the Ice Age caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, but I'm not sure. That's what I meant. The object that struck the Yucatan peninsula must have put enough small pieces of dirt and itself to block the sunlight the way a nuclear winter is always represented as happening. Lizards like heat. If they don't have and they couldn't adapt, they died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted October 25, 2017 #15 Share Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) 25 minutes ago, paperdyer said: That's what I meant. The object that struck the Yucatan peninsula must have put enough small pieces of dirt and itself to block the sunlight the way a nuclear winter is always represented as happening. Lizards like heat. If they don't have and they couldn't adapt, they died. Yes, there is evidence for an impact winter that lasted 1-10 years following the Chicxulub event: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/21/7537.full However, dinosaurs weren't lizards and they weren't ectothermic. It wasn't the winter that directly killed them, but its effects on photosynthesis and the ecosystem would have been a contributing factor to their extinction. It is important to keep in mind that there was not a singular cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs but rather a combination of factors. Edited October 25, 2017 by Carnoferox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted October 27, 2017 #16 Share Posted October 27, 2017 I thought most of them went on to become birds ? ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted October 27, 2017 #17 Share Posted October 27, 2017 26 minutes ago, third_eye said: I thought most of them went on to become birds ? ~ Indeed they did. I was speaking in regards to the non-avialan dinosaurs that went extinct. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted October 27, 2017 #18 Share Posted October 27, 2017 On 10/24/2017 at 9:31 AM, third_eye said: I am dedicating my skeletal structure to Science, only if they promise to exhibit my bones straddling a T Rex ... ~ Careful, you might wind up displayed in a creation science museum. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted October 27, 2017 #19 Share Posted October 27, 2017 58 minutes ago, Carnoferox said: Indeed they did. I was speaking in regards to the non-avialan dinosaurs that went extinct. THat's what I tell the kiddies ... in some respect that they are in fact, munching on dinos when they are biting into a McChicken ... ~ 24 minutes ago, Piney said: Careful, you might wind up displayed in a creation science museum. If that be the case then I am sure they will wrap me up in a loin cloth ... ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted October 27, 2017 #20 Share Posted October 27, 2017 1 minute ago, third_eye said: THat's what I tell the kiddies ... in some respect that they are in fact, munching on dinos when they are biting into a McChicken ... ~ If that be the case then I am sure they will wrap me up in a loin cloth ... ~ Wouldn't want any pelvis exposure around children. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted October 27, 2017 #21 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Just now, Piney said: Wouldn't want any pelvis exposure around children. In a pelvic sense, one can't possibly any more fully exposed when one in there only in the bones ... ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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