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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)


1 posted on 12/30/2008 10:26:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

But I thought Godzilla was Japanese?


2 posted on 12/30/2008 10:28:22 AM PST by shoutingandpointing
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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.


3 posted on 12/30/2008 10:29:02 AM PST by brownsfan (We are sooooo screwed.)
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4 posted on 12/30/2008 10:29:17 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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(including the remains of an enormous "platypus")

So Michael Moore is Chinese?

5 posted on 12/30/2008 10:31:33 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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...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...

6 posted on 12/30/2008 10:32:01 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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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.

Huh?

7 posted on 12/30/2008 10:32:44 AM PST by doodad
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Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media

You don't say! Our one-party media is a dinosaur too.

-ccm

12 posted on 12/30/2008 10:39:16 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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” the remains of ankylosaurus,”
Long lost relative of mrs. clintoon’s.


15 posted on 12/30/2008 10:45:21 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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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.


16 posted on 12/30/2008 10:54:02 AM PST by exist
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After the Creosote extinctions, mammals were able to take advantage of the fact that they were endothermic (liked flowers), placental (had bad breath) and quadrupedal (didn't know any better) to spread and diversify.

In the Tutelary Age, mammals became the dominant class and grew quite large at times. The great Irish bunny, for example, often had antlers eight feet across.

Link

17 posted on 12/30/2008 10:54:23 AM PST by Tarantulas ( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
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19 posted on 12/30/2008 11:04:21 AM PST by skimask (Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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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”.


20 posted on 12/30/2008 11:06:09 AM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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The evolutionary question is how did that Platypus’ bill size migrate to Obama’s ears?


21 posted on 12/30/2008 11:19:11 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: NormsRevenge

“Duck-zirra!”


23 posted on 12/30/2008 11:28:15 AM PST by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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