Finally Found: The Body That Goes With These Monstrous Dinosaur Arms
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[quote]In 1965, paleontologists unearthed a ghastly pair of eight-foot, claw-tipped dinosaur arms – and little else. Since then, researchers have been searching for the rest of Deinocheirus mirificus (Latin for "unusual, horrible hands"). Now, a team working in Mongolia has found it.
In the latest issue of Nature, a team led by Yuong-Nam Lee, director of the Geological Museum in Daejeon, South Korea, describes the two nearly-complete specimens of a dinosaur whose arms have puzzled paleontologists for nearly fifty years. [Photo Credit: Eduard Solà via Wikimedia Commons]
Some had hypothesized that Deinocheirus used its arms to ensnare live prey, but stomach contents recovered by Lee and his colleagues suggest this dinosaur ate plants and fish. In their publication, the team pegs Deinocheirus as the largest-known member of the ornithomimosaurs, a group of "ostrich-like" theropods that includes such dinosaurs as Gallimimus, of they're-flocking-this-way fame.
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It's getting more and more obvious how similar birds are to tiny dinosaurs.
What a sassy way to show a sense of scale!
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46327901]It's getting more and more obvious how similar birds are to tiny dinosaurs.[/QUOTE]
I want to see an updated Jurassic Park with bird Dinosaurs.
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAH DAA DAHHH DUUNH DAH DAH DA DUH DUH DANH HA DAH DAH DA DAHHHHH
That's the Jurassic Park theme.
[QUOTE=nikomo;46327803]It's a chickencamelsaurus.[/QUOTE]
I was gonna say camelduck, but that's good too.
[QUOTE=jonu67;46328317]I want to see an updated Jurassic Park with bird Dinosaurs.[/QUOTE]
as long as jeff goldblum makes a comment on how he always thought they were more scaley than that
honestly a lot of the science gibberish from the first movie is horribly dated, i hope the new movie being a reboot rethinks a lot of the techno-babble and puts more updated jargon on
like how they have that whole thing about frogs having billions of genes and how DNA could be encased for all these hundreds of millions of years
Mongolia stronk, will remove enemy with giant dinosaur skellingtons, so spooky all enemyies are instan'tly spooked
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Should add a [quacking intensifies]
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46327901]It's getting more and more obvious how similar birds are to tiny dinosaurs.[/QUOTE]
Well that's because birds are dinosaurs.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46328506]Should add a [quacking intensifies][/QUOTE]
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Right on the money.
Just in time for the next Jurassic Park movie. This time, about ducksaurus. They could make a crossover with Ducktales, prints extra money
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oh god its real
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Is that one of those bond girls ?
Damn you guys are master memers.
Thanx 4 the laughs.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;46328546]Well that's because birds are dinosaurs.[/QUOTE]
I don't think we can really classify anything that lived over 65 million years ago in the same categories as current species.
[QUOTE=Complifused;46327595]quack[/QUOTE]
That's the part that made me sad last week. I was expecting a monster Deinonychus and got Godzillaflac.
boo.jpg
I'd go extinct too if I looked that ridiculous.
ducks used to scarier
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46330157]I don't think we can really classify anything that lived over 65 million years ago in the same categories as current species.[/QUOTE]
Except for the part where birds are believed to have first appeared about 160 million years ago.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46330157]I don't think we can really classify anything that lived over 65 million years ago in the same categories as current species.[/QUOTE]
If you've studied anything about phylogeny, you'd know that what I'm saying is correct.
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Why is there a Charlie's Angel for scale
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