Sounds like a crime scene.
Posted on 10/17/2005 2:52:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
LYME REGIS, England: The snout, teeth, vertebrae and ribcage of a 15-foot reptile that lived off the coast of England 190 million years ago have been found.
Geologist Paddy Howe, who is monitoring work on the site in Lyme Regis, says the ichthyosaur looked a bit like a dolphin but was a reptile that swam in the sea at the same time dinosaurs roamed the land, the BBC reported Friday.
The remains were found during work to prevent landslides along the coastline and took months to painstakingly remove.
"Now it's a case of waiting to identify the exact species and how rare the fossil is before deciding whether or not to try and find the rest of it," Howe said. "We hope that the fossil will eventually go on display at Lyme Regis Museum."
placemarker
Jurassic Flipper?
Sounds like a crime scene.
Jurassic Shark.
This has been posted for a good ten minutes and no one has observed that this is Bush's fault.
I saw that on Discovery. Everything's on Discovery.
It might be rare in England but not Nevada.
http://parks.nv.gov/bi.htm
One of my alltime favorite dinosaurs as a kid. Why I became a geologist. That and ankylosaurus.
Discovery said its Bushs fault.
If you know a lot about dinosaurs, please answer me a question. Why were so many of the dinosaurs so big? What was the biological advantage from being so large? And if it was such an advantage to be big back then, why aren't there many animals today that are that large? Was there a corelation between animal size, food supply, land mass available, and population?
Sorry for so many questions but I have been facinated by dinosaurs since a small boy and have never been able to find the answers to these questions.
I like allosaurus. He was one mean fighting machine. Pound for pound, as tough as any of them. And triceratops looked so cool with his big old hood. I hated those duck-billed sissy things that grazed on the trees; what were they?
Bones or Fossils? The use of the term "remains" makes it sound like a frsh kill.
And ceratosaurus with the look of Ally and horn. Triceratops got me into breeding Chameleons especially the mountain varities that had horns and shields/flaps that could be extended. Duckbills or hadrosaurs are what you are thinking of I think.
I don't know myself, but have thought about it alot. The super continents were huge and the majority of the land mass was tropical for a LONG time. I guess that would lend a easy life food and climate wise, and since reptiles live so long...just my $.02. The megafauna of the last 5 million years would seem to refute that even though they were mammals. Go figure.
Yeah, ceratosaurus was a good one -- I can still see my ViewMaster pictures of him fighting a dim-witted stegosaurus. He and ally seemed like little brothers of Tyrannosaurus. Hadrosaurs, yep, that's the one. Wasn't there one called Tracheodon? Archaeopteryx (sp?) was pretty wicked too.
Bring in a front end loader, scoop up a bunch of dirt, pile it off to the side, and get back to work. Let the experts dig through the pile of dirt to their hearts content. But GET BACK TO WORK!
The chalk and clay along that stretch of coast are full of fossils & it's great scenery too.
Ha Ha you had those same viewmasters with the dramatic volcanism cracking the ground as they fought?? LOL Wait, I bet they are worth a fortune.
Trachydon was a hadrosaur.
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