Posted on 07/26/2019 2:11:00 PM PDT by sodpoodle
This is one bone you don't want to pick with. Paleontologists have unearthed a 140-million-year-old dinosaur bone, 6.5 feet in length, weighing 1,100 pounds in France. The thigh bone was discovered in Charente, an area that dates back 140 million years and has been a treasure trove for archaeologists in the past. “This is a major discovery,” Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris said in an interview with Reuters. “I was especially amazed by the state of preservation of that femur.” “These are animals that probably weighed 40 to 50 tons," Allain added. More than 7,500 fossils have been found in Charente since 2010, including those from 40 different species. It's unclear exactly what sauropod the bone belongs to just yet, but the group includes brachiosaurus and brontosaurus, seen famously in "Jurassic Park." "This femur is huge! And in an exceptional state of conservation," Angouleme Museum curator Jean-François Tournepiche told The Local. Allain added that it is "very rare" to find fossils this size, as they usually collapse on themselves and break up into fragments. The giant sauropod femur is not the only dinosaur discovery to make headlines this week. In the badlands of North Dakota, a California college student found the 65-million-year-old fossil of a partial Triceratops skull among plant fossils from the Cretaceous period. USA Today reported that the skull was found in the Hell's Creek formation, which spans Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Fox News' Frank Miles contributed to this report.
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That’s the biggest chicken bone I ever seen!
Can you get them extra crispy?
Mmmmmmmm
Tibia or not tibia, that is the question.
The 1100 pounds is due to the bone becoming rock; not that the bone weighed 1100 pounds when the dinosaur was using it, right?
It’s probably the bone off the rack of ribs that always caused the Flintstone’s car to overturn.
Like the day that I went to the town hall to get a dog license for Sex. The clerk asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted a licence for Sex. He said, “I’d like to have one, too.” Then, I said, “You don’t understand. She’s a dog.” He replied, “Look man, I don’t care how she looks.” “No no, I’ve had Sex since I was 5!” He replied, “You must have been an early bloomer.”
When I decided to get married, I told the minister I wanted to have Sex at the wedding. He told me I’d have to wait until after the wedding. When I protested that Sex had played a big part in my life and that my whole life revolved around Sex, he said he didn’t want to hear about my personal life.
After my wife and I got married, I took the dog with us on the honeymoon. When I checked into the hotel, I told the clerk that I wanted a room for my wife and wanted one for Sex. She replied, “Sir, every room in the hotel can be used for sex.” I said, “You don’t understand. Sex keeps me awake at night.” The clerk said, “Me too!”
When my wife and I separated, we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. When I told the Judge I had Sex before I was married, he grinned and said, “Me too.”
One day my dog Sex and I took a walk and he ran away from me. I spent hours looking for that dog. A policeman came by and asked what I was doing in this alley at midnight. I told him, “I’m looking for Sex!” My case comes up next Tuesday.
Now that I’ve been thrown in jail, married, divorced and had more trouble with that dog than I ever imagined, I’m in counseling. My psychiatrist asked me what my problem was. I said, “Sex has left my life. It’s like losing a best friend and I’m so lonely.” He said, “Look, you and I both know that sex isn’t man’s best friend. Why don’t you get yourself a dog...”
I pinged SunkenCiv - our resident FReeper paleontologist, but the jokesters have taken over;)
Guess I’ll have to stick to humor threads.
God bless
Yes, you’re right. Even so did you see the size of it? With a thigh bone that big that critter must have had a ham that would feed a party of 500.
Yabba dabba doo, we got Dino.
Now all they need is the intercostal clavicle!
Current theory has birds as the descendants of dinosaurs, so dinosaur probably did “taste like chicken”.
I think that’s right and good catch...
Many of the therapods like Allosaurus had hollow bones, and would have been much lighter I’d think...Fossilization must account for much if not most/all of the reported weight...But can’t let that get in the way of sensational reporting, can we?
Oh....THIGH bone. Phew.
seriously 1100 lb
fossilized bones are mineralized with every pore filled with stone
haven’t dinosaurs even larger than that been found long ago ?? Brachiosaurus ... 80+tons
Hype Much ????
Asked my question..seems a bit heavy for even a very big bone.
You seem very knowledgeable - try posting a few threads on the subject.
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