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Scientists find dinosaur that was scourge of Jurassic Europe
Reuters ^ | March 5, 2014 | Will Dunham

Posted on 03/06/2014 6:37:05 AM PST by C19fan

In Europe 150 million years ago, this dude was the biggest, baddest bully in town.

Two scientists in Portugal announced on Wednesday that they have identified the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Europe, a 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) brute called Torvosaurus gurneyi that was the scourge of its domain in the Jurassic Period.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: dinosaur; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; jurassic; paleontology; portugal; torvosaurusgurneyi
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To: Sawdring

>> “I wish Noah could have made a special room on his barge to keep two of these creatures. What a shame!” <<

They were probably on the ark as eggs.

Didn’t likely matter, since the ice age that ensued from the hot ocean water of the flood probably wiped out lots of cold-blooded critters.


21 posted on 03/06/2014 10:10:29 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FiddlePig

We don’t need no steeenking science; we need grants!
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22 posted on 03/06/2014 10:14:03 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: KoRn; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
Thanks KoRn.

23 posted on 03/06/2014 3:37:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: C19fan

Scourge, eh?


24 posted on 03/06/2014 4:50:24 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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200 million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur uncovered in Wales
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/p-2mj011516.php


25 posted on 01/22/2016 12:54:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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