A Museum worker cleans fossils in Hohhot. Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus" (AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
Posted on 12/30/2008 10:26:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BEIJING (AFP) – Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus", state press said Tuesday.
Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas near Zhucheng city in Shandong province that contain thousands of dinosaur bones, the Beijing News reported.
"This group of fossilised dinosaurs is currently the largest ever discovered in the world... in terms of area," the paper cited paleontologist Zhao Xijin of the China Academy of Sciences as saying.
In one area measuring 300 metres (990 feet) by 10 metres, more than 3,000 bones were found, the report said. Since digging began in March scientists have discovered more than 7,600 bones.
Included in the find was the largest "platypus" -- or "duck-billed dinosaur" in Chinese -- ever discovered measuring nine metres high with a wingspan wider than 16 metres, the report said.
Zhao said the discovery of so many dinosaurs in such a dense area could provide clues on how the animals became extinct towards the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, the Beijing News said.
Scientists have also identified the remains of ankylosaurus, tyrannosaurus and coelurus, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
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A Museum worker cleans fossils in Hohhot. Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus" (AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
But I thought Godzilla was Japanese?
It’s almost as if the Dinosaurs were a huge experiment by God, and He decided to go a different direction. Wiped the slate clean and started over.
It will be fascinating to one day see what actually happened back then.
Terra Daily
So Michael Moore is Chinese?
...the discovery of so many dinosaurs in such a dense area could provide clues on how the animals became extinct towards the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago...
Huh?
Wingspan?
A flying Platypus?
God made the dinosaurs so we’d have oil. :D
I want to drink with Gary Larson.
Dinosaurs still exist. You can get them tastily prepared at your neighborhood KFC.
-ccm
You don't say! Our one-party media is a dinosaur too.
-ccm
Curious as to how she learned this fact I asked her why she would say that?
"Because bunnies are mammals and mammals don't lay eggs," she replied.
I then owned up and told her that the Easter Bunny was only a trick to take attention away from the real mammal that laid eggs, the Easter Duckbill Platypus so that no one would bother him.
She put out cookies for "Bill" after that.
Somehow I don't think alcohol was his inspiration. Call it a hunch.
” the remains of ankylosaurus,”
Long lost relative of mrs. clintoon’s.
A devout Catholic woman once made the case to me that A) dinosaur bones were put in the ground by the devil or B) the results showing dinosaur bones were millions of years old were a trick by the devil.
That’s one heavy shadow!
Looks to me like a rare “reporterosaurus journalisticus” an extinct creature from the old USA period. It evolved in to the current “drivebyosuras rex” found in plentiful quantities in the river “mainstream medius”.
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