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Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever
New Scientists ^ | 13 October 2011 | Jeff Hecht

Posted on 10/16/2011 7:07:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Dinosaur fossils don't come much more impressive than this. With 98 per cent of its skeleton preserved, this young predatory theropod from southern Germany may be the most complete dinosaur ever found. Oliver Rauhut, curator of the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, announced the find yesterday.

Although Chinese bird and dinosaur fossils are famed for delicate details such as their feathers, they don't match this 72-centimetre-long theropod in terms of clarity and completeness of preservation.

The young dinosaur has been dated at 135 million years old, putting it in the early Cretaceous, but it has yet to be named and described formally. It will go on show to the public at the Munich Mineral show, which starts on 27 October.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: cretaceous; dinosaur; dinosaurs; evolution; fossils; geology; germany; godsgravesglyphs; mesozoic; paleontology; theropod; youngearthdelusions
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To: SunkenCiv

How can I be “ dead wrong” when it’s my question that hasn’t been answered?it’s an odd grasp of logic you have when I can be dead wrong for asking a question.


61 posted on 10/17/2011 1:57:43 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: SunkenCiv
I was taught to write for level of the group that would read the article.

The technical forum here on FR is the best place to have those kinds of discussions.

62 posted on 10/17/2011 6:29:24 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: mountainlion

I suggest starting a new thread with the other thread hijackers and trolls.


63 posted on 10/17/2011 6:08:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: muir_redwoods

My message was in response to this, from you:

> So you defer to an unnamed other authority and have no answer. Thanks

So, in other words, wrong again.


64 posted on 10/17/2011 6:32:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wrong again? When was I wrong the first time? When I asked a reasonable question about the illogic of assuming complexity requires design? Please try some consistency


65 posted on 10/18/2011 1:58:32 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: muir_redwoods

You’re trying a straw man argument, and this is the second time — my response wasn’t to whatever drivel you posted during your thread hijack, and while it’s possible that you’re not understanding this, it’s just as likely that you’re lying.


66 posted on 10/18/2011 3:08:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah, the ad hominem, now I’m a liar, I guess you’ve run out of anything useful to say. If you’re keeping score, it wasn’t I who mentioned a designer first, I simply took issue with the illogic of the respondent who did so I hijacked no thread. Careful reading is an important life skill; look into it.


67 posted on 10/18/2011 3:31:08 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: SunkenCiv
Please realize that some consider the theory of evolution a religion. Others see it as unproven like global warming and open for attack like some attack religion. There is little common ground and people become quite polarized.
68 posted on 10/18/2011 7:05:43 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: mountainlion; SunkenCiv
Please realize that some consider the theory of evolution a religion.

So? Those people almost universally have no idea what they are talking about and are also accutely unaware that "insulting" science by calling it a religion mocks their own choice to follow a religion.


69 posted on 10/21/2011 1:44:24 PM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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