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Dinosaur Mummy Found
sckienle writes "Although the dig was a year ago, MSNBC has an article about a very rare dinosaur find. It starts off with "A mummified dinosaur, unwrapped from the rocks of Montana, has revealed how the creature looked and how it lived 77 million years ago -- down to the texture of its skin and the contents of its stomach, scientists say." Unfortunately, the details are mostly missing in the article. This isn't the first mummified dinosaur found but it is the first in a long time."
Kind of like the Stego in Animal Crossing!
Well with a dinosaurs tiny brain, at least the imbalmers didnt have to spend too much time taking the brain out through the nose.
I'm not dead yet.
I'm getting better.
Now they can finally have the cross-over movie where Brandon Fraiser has to kick the crap out of old dinosaurs that have been cloned and are taking over a tropical island in egypt.
just you wait and see...
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I wonder if they'll find that lawyer from Jurrasic Park in it's stomach?
Are you saying that the aliens who built the pyramids were actually DINOSAURS?
Dinosaurs had prior art.
that the dinosaur ate pringles and drank bawls for energy for those long nights of arguing on slashdot. :)
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Nowhere in the article does it say how they know it's 23 foot long.
I'm assuming they go by some sort of measuring tape. What I'm asking all the geeks here is this: when scientists spout off numbers like this, what scientific means are they utilizing to back them up and how accurate are they?
I don't doubt the thing could very well *be* that long. I just wonder: how do they know?
If it was a scientist that said $77 million, then it the accuracy is of $1 million years.
Now that's an expensive dinosaur!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Rocks are very easy to date
But people look at you funny if you take a rock out for dinner!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Don't you realize that (we) geeks are largely unsuccessful at dating.
I generally begin with something naive and simple, say, a movie and a rootbeer float. Then just stare into it's eyes. After a couple of these perhaps you move onto something a little more romantic but you don't want to move too quickly or you may excite the situation and the whole relationship just decays.
"The closer we are to when it died, by a long shot the more accurate the dating is."
Lay off the Yoda-ese you should.