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Dinosaurs Doing The Backfloat

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 eggstasy · · 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 ;)

  2. Correction: by Ieshan · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've got it all backwards.

    When Noah floated around in his Ark, the Dinosaurs had to go somewhere, so obviously they had to float. I mean, it just wouldn't do to have huge carnivores on the boat with Noah, would it? Clearly, a floating dinosaur is rendered harmless (very small rocks are harmless, and they float too!), and therefore, everything works scientifically according to God's design. Unfortunately, when the waters began to recede, the Dinosaurs floated all over the place, and most of them died from lack of proper places to pray, thus creating the fossils as we know them.

    Sheesh. You evolution people make me sick.

    Laugh. It's a joke.