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In other dinosaur news,
PhysOrg reported a nest of 15 Protoceratops juveniles found in Mongolia, the first nest of their genus ever found. The paleontologist from University of Rhode Island said “I suspect” they were buried in a sandstorm, but admitted they had to be buried rapidly to be preserved in such detail. And although extinct marine reptiles are not dinosaurs,
PhysOrg also reported on an exceptionally-preserved mosasaur fossil discovered in western Kansas.
Live Science said of this specimen, “In the
fossilized skin samples, the researchers can
see not only the animal's scales, but also imprints of the protein fibers that made up its skin.” The discovery was reported in
PLoS ONE by Lindgren
et al.1 1. Lindgren J , Everhart MJ , Caldwell MW , 2011 Three-Dimensionally Preserved Integument Reveals Hydrodynamic Adaptations in the Extinct Marine Lizard Ectenosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae). PLoS ONE 6(11): e27343. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027343.
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3 posted on
11/26/2011 6:28:49 PM PST by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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Now why on earth would so many extinct animals die in some sort of freak drowning event???
4 posted on
11/26/2011 6:29:28 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(Roll the stone away, Let the guilty pay, It's Independence Day)
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Noah would be so pleased.
5 posted on
11/26/2011 6:29:44 PM PST by
doc1019
(Romney will never get my vote)
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That makes sense regarding the preservation. The specimens who just die on the ground are bound to be torn up by scavengers. But being caught in a flash flood could kill and quickly bury it.
7 posted on
11/26/2011 6:31:56 PM PST by
mnehring
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The water explanation certainly comports more with the biblical account of how things were before the (re)creation (Genesis 1:2).
9 posted on
11/26/2011 6:34:53 PM PST by
PapaNew
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A study from Brigham Young University? You better tred carefully posting anything that can be construed as Mormons supporting the bible on this site.
/sarc
12 posted on
11/26/2011 6:42:47 PM PST by
Ripliancum
(Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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31 posted on
11/26/2011 8:01:57 PM PST by
WorkingClassFilth
(Expiate your inner liberal racist guilt, but use your brain: Vote CAIN in 2012!)
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How surprising!
Obviously the intact specimnens had to have died in the flood waters, or else their bodies would have been ravaged by predators.
This had nothing to do with extinction; they were still alive in the middle ages in sufficient numbers to have a huge representation in the written historical record.
43 posted on
11/26/2011 8:59:33 PM PST by
editor-surveyor
(No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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Wonder where we heard about this before. Flood waters. Hmmm.
59 posted on
11/26/2011 9:28:48 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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62 posted on
11/26/2011 9:35:29 PM PST by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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(Simplest STUPIDEST explanation of Dino extinction: They drowned)
70 posted on
11/27/2011 4:28:07 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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"NewScientist"; eh??
ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet's oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today.
I think I'll pass...
71 posted on
11/27/2011 4:31:41 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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there's a good chance it will be found with its head thrown backwards and its tail arched upwards – technically known as the opisthotonic death pose.
76 posted on
11/27/2011 5:02:41 AM PST by
Donald Rumsfeld Fan
("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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