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By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India - U.S. and Indian scientists said Wednesday they have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur species in India after finding bones in the western part of the country.
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The new dinosaur species was named Rajasaurus narmadensis, or "Regal reptile from the Narmada," after the Narmada River region where the bones were found.
The dinosaurs were between 25-30 feet long, had a horn above their skulls, were relatively heavy and walked on two legs, scientists said. They preyed on long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs on the Indian subcontinent during the Cretaceous Period at the end of the dinosaur age, 65 million years ago.
"It's fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of dinosaurs came to a close," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America."
Working with Indian scientists, Sereno and paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan reconstructed the dinosaur skull in a project funded partly by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society.
A model of the assembled skull was presented Wednesday by the American scientists to their counterparts from Punjab University in northern India and the Geological Survey of India during a Bombay news conference.
Scientists said they hope the discovery will help explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the shifting of the continents — how India separated from Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica and collided with Asia.
The dinosaur bones were discovered during the past 18 years by Indian scientists Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India and Ashok Sahni, a paleontologist at Punjab University.
When the bones were examined, "we realized we had a partial skeleton of an undiscovered species," Sereno said.
The scientists said they believe the Rajasaurus roamed the Southern Hemisphere land masses of present-day Madagascar, Africa and South America.
"People don't realize dinosaurs are the only large-bodied animal that lived, evolved and died at a time when all continents were united," Sereno said.
The cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is still debated by scientists. The Rajasaurus discovery may provide crucial clues, Sereno said.
India has seen quite a few paleontological discoveries recently.
In 1997, villagers discovered about 300 fossilized dinosaur eggs in Pisdura, 440 miles northeast of Bombay, that Indian scientists said were laid by four-legged, long-necked vegetarian creatures.
Indian scientists said the dinosaur embryos in the eggs may have suffocated during volcanic eruptions.
Norm!
(Sorry, but if I didn't do it, you know someone else would have.)
You might want to read post #1820 before you declare premature victory.
Also note that although MM's post was long on general declarations of evolution's demise, it contained no examples, and no specific evidence. It was just a diatribe that the reader was expected to take on faith.
People can (and have) written similar diatribes against Christianity -- does that prove anything?
Furthermore, for some perspective check out this web page on The Imminent Demise of Evolution. Creationists have been continuously predicting that evolution was about to come crashing down any day now since 1840... That page contais quotes predicting the crash of evolution from 1840, 1850, 1878, 1895, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1912, 1922, 1929, 1935, 1940, 1961, 1963, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. But surely, they're finally right *this* time, eh?
Ummmm, actually I don't think I ever posted to that thread.
They ran out of unsigned 16-bit integers...
You're forgetting it takes millions of years for wildly successful theories to fall. The punk-eek version of "evolutionary crashing" (a.k.a., ec) requires mechanisms that have not yet been completely described or understood in the creationist/ID model of anti-science. ;)
On the Apple/Linux threads, MySQL is considered a serious competitor to SQL Server. Using a 16 bit counter for records doesn't look like real software to me.
What does this have to do with your statement that we evos are saying that some humans have been miscegenating with "part-apes?"
This is yet another clue that you don't have any idea how evolution works. Statements along the lines of "A horse does not [turn into/give birth to] a cat" are another.
Time Scales and Heterogeneous Structure in Geodynamic Earth Models
Hans-Peter Bunge,* Mark A. Richards, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, John R. Baumgardner, Stephen P. Grand, Barbara A. Romanowicz
Abstract: Computer models of mantle convection constrained by the history of Cenozoic and Mesozoic plate motions explain some deep-mantle structural heterogeneity imaged by seismic tomography, especially those related to subduction. They also reveal a 150- million-year time scale for generating thermal heterogeneity in the mantle, comparable to the record of plate motion reconstructions, so that the problem of unknown initial conditions can be overcome. The pattern of lowermost mantle structure at the core-mantle boundary is controlled by subduction history, although seismic tomography reveals intense large-scale hot (low-velocity) upwelling features not explicitly predicted by the models.
What sort of ethics does a scientist have, when he can on the one hand author papers claiming the earth is no more than 6000 years old, and on the other author another that discusses geological processes over a 150 million year time-scale? Which of the two papers he co-authored does he not actually believe?
In my life, I've heard more from Santa and the Tooth Fairy. God would appear to be very limited indeed in communicating with me.
Note that if nobody answers creationists on a given point, it's supposedly because "There IS no answer" or "There's a CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE" to ignore creationism. But any person, any organization, any site that takes up the challenge and shoots down the nonsense is dismissed out of hand for "not being objective." Catch-22. To not answer you is bad. To answer you is worse.
You keep screaming that we have dismissed AiG out of hand. Well, I do, in a way. I've seen their crap enough times that I often don't need to reread the linked articles before responding. Nevertheless, if I answer you on an AiG article, what is posted to you addresses the text of their statements.
You just dismissed three of four articles in Patrick's post to you with an ad hominem on a whole site and all of the probably scores of authors published thereon. (Or did you in your religious horror not even check to see that the Tree of Life Project is not associated with TO?) You have not addressed in any way the content of Patrick's post, only his choice in web sites to support his position.
You are still judging the work before you have even seen it. This group of scientists has spent 5 years working onstudyingdiscrediting radiometric dating.
Creationists always get their man, in their own minds.
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