[AM2000]

Very cool.

[APBaer]

It looks similar to a:

ONE EYED, ONE HORNED, FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER

I saw the thing comming out of the sky.

It had one big horn and a great big eye.

I commenced to shaking and I said,"Ooh Wee!"

It looks like a Purple People Eater to me!



CHORUS:

It was a One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater

One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater

One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater

Sure looks strange to me.



It came from the sky and lit in a tree.
I said, "Mister Purple Eater don't eat me!"

I heard him say in a voice so gruff,

"I wouldn't eat you cause' you're too tough."

(CHORUS)

I said, "Mister Purple People Eater what's you're line?"

He said' "Eating purple people, and it sure is fine.

But that's not the reason I came to land...

I want to get a job in a Rock and Roll band."

(CHORUS)

He jumped from the tree and he landed on the ground.
He started to rock, a really rollin' around.

He sang a little ditty with a swinging tune

Like, " a bop bop a lupa lop a loom bam boom!"

(CHORUS)

Well, he went on his way and what do you know?

I saw him last night on a TV show.

He was blowing his horn and really knocking them dead

Playing Rock and Roll music through the horn on his head.

(CHORUS)

[keithtoo]

"If you didn't have the fossils, you wouldn't believe that such an animal would have ever lived,"

Yes, as a matter of fact you could discern that such creatures lived by the nearly universal dragon legends that come from virtually ALL ancient cultures. I believe at one time, these creatures and man coexisted. Weirder discoveries have happened. As when previously long extinct species, turn up somewhere when they should have died off long ago.

Isn't it interesting that, not only do all depictions or dragons look alike, they virtually ALL have wings! What are the odds of that? You can draw a picture of an imaginary lizard all you like, but why in the world would you give it wings?

[Paul Atreides]

Its descendent...

[murdoog]

Wow, 6 replies and no mention of James Carville.

[Cloud William]

Aim that bazooka carefully, Race!

[martin_fierro]

The find is so recent that I can't find any closer illustrations than this.

[green team 1999]

[medved]

The argentinian teratorn was a 200-lb eagle:

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That is known to be impossible in our present world. The biggest eagle you will ever see in our present world would be one of the largest berkuts, such as Atlanta, seen here with Sam Barnes:

Barnes is a big man, around 6-7 or so, 300 lbs., and you can judge for yourself Atlanta's size from the picture. A Kirghis khan gave Atlanta to Barnes around 1970 because she had flounce, for which no cure existed in the CCCP, and would have died shortly. Barnes had meds for that back in England.

Atlanta at 24 lbs. or thereabouts is as big as berkuts ever get. The khan told Barnes that they only got one or two that size every fifty years or so and that a bird that size if healthy, would be worth more than a dozen of the most beautiful women in Kirghiz. They raise berkuts in Kirghiz partly to kill wolves and while, a wolf would be just a day at the office for Atlanta, it's a major undertaking for a more normal sized berkut at 14 - 17 lbs, and the wolf sometimes wins. Therefore it would be a huge advantage if they could breed them to an AVERAGE of 24 lbs., i.e. have a small one be 20 lbs. and a big one be 35 lbs., but it cannot be done. When they get past 25 lbs, they start to have insurmountable problems with takeoffs and landings.

That's in our gravity of course. The Argentinian teratorn did not have that problem.

[Vidalia]

Searching for tax monies, Daschleo-Gephardo-thorus probably glided low over the middle class of the country, its lower cerebellum skimming the surface of lies and mismanagement, ready to nab any tasty tax increases or crusty middle-classeans it encountered, said Kellner, whose findings were not unusual....

OK, somebody sue me for lying...

[Maceman]

a big flying reptile

Dinosaurs were not reptiles. Reptiles are cold blooded, and the idea that dinosaurs were warm blooded has been generally accepted since the 1980s at least.

[Jhoffa_]

Sounds like something I read about in Revelations.

[Consort]

[xp38]

I'm sure I saw these used as airplanes on the Flintstones...Pterodactyl Airlines IIRC.

[green team 1999]

[Looking for Diogenes]

[scouse]

The most eye-popping characteristic of Thalassodromeus is its large, thin, cranial crest that looks with its V-shaped end like a giant spearhead or knife blade.

Commonly called the McAfee V shield.

[sheik yerbouty]

A Cherodactyl. It can be found near Hollywood.

[2sheep]

Dragon bump

[KSCITYBOY]

Ok - I've got a really stupid question - Why were these creatures so large. The are very few large creatures around today. I mean what in their environment encouraged them to be as large as they were? I mean food was plentiful - still is? What was different then?

[sandydipper]

UUUUMMMMMM - Pterosaur on toast!