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Scientists now think these dinosaurs were more muscular than previously thought

The scales are still visible on the fossilised skin

1 posted on 12/11/2007 6:25:54 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: Fred Nerks; blam; SunkenCiv

“December 3, 2207 | U/A”
I have to question your date, but it is nice article.

;)


2 posted on 12/11/2007 6:28:36 PM PST by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: Fred Nerks

Excellent news. Finally science will be able to answer the age-old question about dinosaurs: did they taste like chicken?


3 posted on 12/11/2007 6:29:25 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Fred Nerks

Upon close examination it still breathed after 67 million years.

LOL!

Sorry Fred, couldn't resist. Seriously, this find is amazing, as is the honeycomb structure of the skin!

5 posted on 12/11/2007 6:31:47 PM PST by SolidWood (Al Gore: "I have never heard of this, but I think it is a very good idea,")
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To: Fred Nerks

Must have been buried very quickly when it died. Like in some great flood.


6 posted on 12/11/2007 6:38:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Fred Nerks

nice find


8 posted on 12/11/2007 6:43:04 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Fred Nerks

That bottom photo looks like tire tracks.


11 posted on 12/11/2007 6:52:33 PM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: Fred Nerks; aculeus; dighton; Lijahsbubbe; martin_fierro
The scales are still visible on the fossilised skin "There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking."

"That's a good-looking mummy" to-ask-out-on-a-date-when-you-can't-lick-a-frog ping.

15 posted on 12/11/2007 7:12:56 PM PST by Ezekiel
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To: Fred Nerks

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19 posted on 12/11/2007 7:49:20 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: Fred Nerks
I wish these articles would tell the whole story, like for instance all the results they toss out in the dating scheme in order to arrive at the desired date.

In other words, intact soft tissue should be an indicator that maybe 67 million years might be wrong.

24 posted on 12/11/2007 8:25:40 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: Fred Nerks
The preservation allowed scientists to estimate that it was more muscular than thought, perhaps giving it the ability to outrun predators like T. rex.

Since T-rex was unable to run at all I guess that would not be too hard.

26 posted on 12/11/2007 8:31:39 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Fred Nerks

YEC INTREP - maybe the specimen is not 67 million years old!


27 posted on 12/11/2007 8:36:47 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Fred Nerks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7130014.stm is nearly as cool: mammoths bones with meteorite fragments embedded.
29 posted on 12/11/2007 8:45:21 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Fred Nerks
predators like T. rex....and just exactly how does anyone know this?
38 posted on 12/12/2007 3:49:46 AM PST by Banjoguy (The stench that surrounds us, emanates from Washington, D.C.)
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To: Fred Nerks

alas:

Mummified dinosaur may have outrun T. Rex
(Dakota the DinoMummy, a duckbilled Hadrosaur)
AP on Yahoo | 12/2/07 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap
Posted on 12/03/2007 12:54:16 AM EST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933838/posts

Secrets of the dinosaur mummy
The Australian | December 04, 2007 | Nicola Berkovic
Posted on 12/04/2007 10:22:23 AM EST by Diamond
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934471/posts


39 posted on 12/12/2007 9:15:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, December 10, 2007____________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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