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Dinosaurs Doing The Backfloat

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Correct me if I'm wrong... by EnVisiCrypt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... but the dinosaur's remains spread across the world due to the fact that their living bodies were all together on the super-continent pangea, which then separated, leaving the remains spread across the continents we live on today.

    Moreover, the article doesn't echo the article submitter when he said, "This helps to explain how creatures of such huge mass were able to spread around the world."

    In fact, the article merely speculates that this is how sauropods and the like moved without collapsing under their own weight.

    I'm not trying to knock the poster, but young people read this site, and I'd hate like hell for anyone to be misinformed.

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    1. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... by Mattcelt · · Score: 2, Insightful

      and I'd hate like hell for anyone to be misinformed.

      Then you'd be better off encouraging them to get their information somewhere other than /.!

  2. We care. by u-238 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And it matters. Really.