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China finds new species of big, bird-like dinosaur
Yahoo News/Reuters ^ | Wed Jun 13 | Tan Ee Lyn and Ben Blanchard

Posted on 06/13/2007 8:09:23 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China has uncovered the skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.

Eight meters (26 ft) long and standing at twice the height of a man at the shoulder, the fossil of the feathered but flightless Gigantoraptor erlianensis was found in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia, researchers wrote in the latest issue of Nature.

The researchers said the dinosaur, discovered in April 2005, weighed about 1.4 tonnes and lived some 85 million years ago.

According to lines of arrested growth detected on its bones, it died as a young adult in its 11th year of life.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bird; crevo; dinosaur; evolution; fsmdidit; godsgravesglyphs; scam
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Can we all say, "Peaking Man?" HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
1 posted on 06/13/2007 8:09:28 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday
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To: EndWelfareToday; DaveLoneRanger

A fossil from China. Seems to me archeoraptor was also *found* in China.

Does it have *Made in China* stamped on its butt?


2 posted on 06/13/2007 8:11:18 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: EndWelfareToday

The Chinese will figure out how to eat it.


3 posted on 06/13/2007 8:16:20 AM PDT by SolidWood (3,184 terrorists killed since January 2007)
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To: EndWelfareToday

Peking Duck.


4 posted on 06/13/2007 8:16:49 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (WE WILL NOT DISARM!!!)
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To: EndWelfareToday
That's Pekin Man.



Fossil: Pekin Man

Site: Zhoukoudian Cave, China (1)

Discovered By: W.C. Pei, 1928-1937 (1)

Estimated Age of Fossil: 400,000 ya - 500,000 ya, * determined by Faunal, archaeological, radiometric, paleomagnetic & pollen data (1, 4)

Species Name: Homo erectus (1), Homo erectus erectus (25)

Gender: Male (based on size) (15)

Cranial Capacity: 1043 cc (8)

Information: Original bones disappeared during WWII (casts made and now reside in New York) (1, 3, 7, 8)
Remains of 40 individuals found (along with stone tools and animal remains) (1, 7)

Interpretation: First evidence of human use of fire found here (1)
No evidence of fire in Zhoukoudian Cave (bones naturally burned and washed into cave) (7)

See original source for notes:

Source: http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=43

5 posted on 06/13/2007 8:17:24 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: EndWelfareToday

6 posted on 06/13/2007 8:24:30 AM PDT by Ingtar (...right wing conservatives are growing tired of crawling on bloody stumps looking for scraps - JRob)
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To: Coyoteman
That's Pekin Man.

Yeah! That's him. ;-) He was found to be a hoax much like I suspect this Gigantoraptor erlianensis will be. (LOL)

Thanks.

I wonder what "evolved" from the Gigantoraptor erlianensis?
Any ideas?

7 posted on 06/13/2007 8:25:09 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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To: EndWelfareToday

I believe the answer is in post 6.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 8:26:50 AM PDT by nhoward14
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I believe the answer is in post 6.

So that's where liberals came from!?

9 posted on 06/13/2007 8:30:45 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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To: EndWelfareToday
He was found to be a hoax much like I suspect this Gigantoraptor erlianensis will be.

Sorry, not true.

(Where do you come up with this stuff?)

10 posted on 06/13/2007 8:34:12 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

From sources evolutionists don’t like. Real Scientists. ;)


11 posted on 06/13/2007 8:40:54 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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To: EndWelfareToday
From sources evolutionists don’t like. Real Scientists. ;)

You claimed Pekin Man was a hoax. Lets see your evidence.

(Or are you confusing Pekin Man with Piltdown Man, which was a hoax?)

12 posted on 06/13/2007 8:44:23 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: EndWelfareToday

Polly wanna human?

13 posted on 06/13/2007 8:50:45 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: EndWelfareToday

More like Peking Duck.


14 posted on 06/13/2007 8:51:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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To: Hang'emAll

Darn you!


15 posted on 06/13/2007 8:52:00 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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To: Larry Lucido

First thing that came to mind. Peking duck is good though.


16 posted on 06/13/2007 8:54:25 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (WE WILL NOT DISARM!!!)
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To: Coyoteman
I apologize if I have offended you Coyoteman. After spending almost half a century following the lies that have been perpetrated upon society by the evolutionists I am really not open to get into a flaming competition with you or anyone else. I know for a fact that evolution is nothing more than a theory which has NO evidence to support it's claims. For me to sit and try to argue with you about who's sources are more credible will only further the evolutionist's agenda by giving it attention it does not deserve. For over 150 years people have been buying into Darwin's drug induced hallucination's while at the same time ignoring his own conclusions. The original Pekin Man as your own post shows was never brought to a lab and examined. In fact he supposedly vanished during a military action never to be seen again.

Look... If it makes you feel better to believe in junk-science then please don't let me rain on your parade. I posted this article more as a lark for those of us that know the truth than to upset those of you sensitive to the challenges to your religion.

I hope that you will forgive me.

Be well!

17 posted on 06/13/2007 9:00:08 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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To: EndWelfareToday
I know for a fact that evolution is nothing more than a theory which has NO evidence to support it's claims.

No flame wars, just asking for you to support a claim you made. Pekin Man was not a hoax; I still think you must be confusing that find with Piltdown Man, which was a hoax.

And I am aware that evolution is a theory; I have posted definitions many times of what a theory is in science (they are on my FR home page). But in science, a theory is one or more related hypotheses which have a lot of supporting data, which make predictions, and which have withstood the test of time. "Theory" in science does not mean "guess" or "hunch."

By the way, the Pekin Man find was not just one individual. It was quite a few, and they were studied by the scientist who found them. Since the war, other finds have been made in the same area, though none as spectacular as the original ones.

(See? No flame war.)

18 posted on 06/13/2007 9:08:03 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: EndWelfareToday
Sorry to break in and risk some sort of escalation.

But I don't see where finding, or maybe finding, or claiming to have found, a new, bigger and better, bird like fossil makes a case for or against darwinism(?)
Evolution itself, changes in, and adaption of, structure over time, is pretty well assumed. Other implications of that theory are what causes debate.

What is not universally granted, what is possibly the minority view, is that life results from cataclismic soup and that humankind itself is part of Gigantoraptor Erlianensis' family tree.

I don't see where disagreement over the validity or lack thereof of Peking Man bears on that debate. There is a huge pile of evidence telling us that humans differ from each other across time and geography.

What's wrong with simply marveling at the possibility of another critter in the record?

It ain't like anyone is going to posit a featherless, huge, beaked, upright, lizard (or not) as somekind of missing link to Paris Hilton.

Rosy O'Donnell - maybe.

19 posted on 06/13/2007 9:25:18 AM PDT by norton
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To: Coyoteman
I'm not confusing anything my friend. Just do a Google search if you'd like. Every single "missing link" to date has been proven to be a hoax.

Sorry. As I said I am not interested in arguing. If I knew that I was going to upset anyone I would not have posted this article. I find Junk Science and all it's facets (Evolution, Environmentalism, etc.) to be absolutely hilarious. I was trying to put a smile on people's faces.

I hope you understand.

20 posted on 06/13/2007 9:25:25 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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