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Dinosaurs Doing The Backfloat

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @05:46PM from the see-you-in-bermuda dept.

Meshach writes "The Globe and Mail has an interesting article about how the scientific community is becoming convinced that dinosaurs were able to float. This helps to explain how creatures of such huge mass were able to spread around the world."

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Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... by eggstasy · 2003-10-28 18:45 · Score: 3, Informative

Pangaea broke up around 200 million years ago, and dinosaurs appeared around 210 million years ago, so only the very earliest of dinosaurs were around to see it happen, considering that they were around for another 135 million years after that.
I'd hate like hell for anyone to be misinformed ;)