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A weird 'platypus' dinosaur made of mismatched parts
latimes.com ^
| Deborah Netburn
Posted on 04/27/2015 5:40:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Paleontologists have unearthed a strange new species of dinosaur that is unlike anything they have seen before.
The newly described Chilesaurus diegosuarezi was an ostrich-size dinosaur that walked upright like a Tyrannosaurus rex but had the teeth of a more primitive long-necked plant eater.
"The interesting thing about this dinosaur is that different parts of it look very similar to unrelated dinosaurs," said Martin Ezcurra, a researcher at the University of Birmingham, England, who helped describe the animal Monday in the journal Nature. "It is like a combination of different dinosaurs in a single species."
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Or....maybe the scientists mixed up the parts themselves. It wouldn't be the first time.
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:40:53 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I do know theyve fabricated all manner of evidence in the past..but..this maybe the first time theyve tried to pawn off a undeniable mix and match creation as a single “fossil” ...?
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:44:14 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: BenLurkin
Usin’ Baby boomer Howdy Doody Fans know what it is....FLUB-A-DUB!
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:47:10 PM PDT
by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
To: MeshugeMikey
What timing. Mismatched parts’ or whatever they call it in time for tomorrow’s fag marriage vote at SCOTUS.
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:47:21 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: BenLurkin
When I buried all those bones I figured they’d catch on almost immediately. I can’t believe they actually think they come from the same animal.
I wonder if they found the turkey bone yet...
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:47:42 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: BenLurkin
Another edition of MOTUS already?
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:48:20 PM PDT
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:51:20 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: cuban leaf; Darksheare
Huh. And here I figured it was probably Darksheare’s fault.
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:51:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin; cuban leaf
Carefully euthanized with coffee beforehand.
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:55:00 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: BenLurkin
It doesn’t look all that weird. For a dinosaur.
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:55:13 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
To: BenLurkin
And here I figured it was probably Darksheare’s fault. Nah, but it is Darksheare's fault that all the dinosaurs are dead. Dark gave them some of that coffee.....
To: Darksheare
Aw you beat me too it. :-(
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
04/27/2015 5:57:27 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/27/2015 6:34:56 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t get the platypus connection other than platypus lay eggs like dinosaurs.
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posted on
04/27/2015 6:42:17 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: mass55th
I’m thinking the editor figured nobody would know what they meant if they called it a chimera.
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posted on
04/27/2015 6:43:07 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: max americana
too much on our plates today...
Rioting in baltimore...and the BIG Supreme Court case of the century...
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posted on
04/27/2015 6:47:58 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: BenLurkin
They could have just said “A weird Michelle Obama-like dinosaur made of mismatched parts.”
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posted on
04/27/2015 6:52:50 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: BenLurkin
They often appeared that way during hunting season.
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