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Scientists Find Preserved Dodo Bird Bones
nz17 writes "BBC News is reporting that a team of Dutch and Mauritian scientists have found what appears to be a mass dodo bird grave. From the article: 'Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th century. No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755.'"
Just in time for the discovery of turkey remains tomorrow!
This was clearly planted by an Intelligent Designer to challenge our faith.
Big ones, small ones, some as big as yer 'ead!
Give 'em a twist, a flick o' the wrist...
I didn't know SCO was headquartered on Mauritius.....
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The marker said Bush family plot.
That would be neat if we could clone the birds somehow, I'm not sure if that's possible any more, but maybe in the marrow or something...
Take that DNA, clone those fuckers, raise 'em on a farm, and sell me some Dodo McNuggets!
The current hypothesis among those working on an intelligent design theory is that a worldwide flood buried animal remains in mudslides in such a way that rapid fossilization occurred.
there's no mention of this in the bible, dodos are just a theory of atheist scientists
who ya gonna believe, the bible or your own lyin eyes??
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"...Dutch and Mauritian scientists..." At first glance read that as ..."Dutch and Martian scientists..." and thought WTF? Now it has lost most of it's appeal for me...nevermind.
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Am I the only one who saw "Preserved Doo-doo bones" and thought, "What kind of horrific creature has excrement so large that it needs its own internal bone structure?"
"I already downloaded the latest Dodo record on my iPac, so this information is incorrect", he announced.
Subject says it all really. They weren't extinct back then and the easiest way to get a complete skeleton is to remove the owner.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Check to see where he was living 2000 years ago.
I live in Mauritius. There is word that a team of researchers, mostly foreigners, recently-discovered Dodo bones on a dig site at Mare aux Songes. These bones are said to have been sent to Holland without authorisation from some local authorities who deal with issues of National Heritage. It was not known if these remains were stolen or sent abroad secretly.
Now, at least we know where the remains are.
Note: Till date, not enough bones have been found to build a complete Dodo skeleton.
Seeing as the Dodo came from there until man BSOD it :-)
Heh, slashdot.
Dodo: This is our private stockpile for the Ice Age. Sub arctic temperatures will force us underground for a billion, billion years.
Manfred: So you got three melons?
Whats the big deal, every day I find perserved bird doodoo on my car...
Did they find a preserved watermelon or two as well?
Unbeknownst to most ornithologists, the dodo was actually a very advanced species, living alone quite peacefully until, in the 17th century, it was annihilated by men, rats, and dogs. As usual
Give the DNA to that Korean faux-cloning boffin and we'll have the birds up and walking in no time!
Enjoy your burn, unfortunately you may not believe in hell but it believes in you. Welcome to it.
Says the anonymous coward.
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Next Story: The owners of these bones inherit the rights to all license fees; Species with derivative DNA should now be prepared to pay retroactive license fees. Interest to be limited by the laws of South Dakota.
A shovel: $15
All your bones: Priceless.
Also you probably don't want to add human to your list for legal or ethical reasons but there is no reason not to try hufu, the healthy soy-based human flesh alternative!
Sounds like if they could clone it, dodos would make good domesticated animals. The eggs and bird seem tasty and docile enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own _correspondent/2255991.stm
The Dutch, who settled the previously uninhabited island in the early 17th century, referred to the dodo as the walgvogel, or "ghastly bird."
This was apparently because, no matter which way you cooked it, its flesh was as tough as old boots. However, that didn't stop the colonisers hunting the poor dodo down.
Destroyed in a fire? That's a little misleading. It was purposely put in a fire because someone thought it was ugly. It wasn't as if the museum was on fire. Someone walking by tried to save it but only got a few parts out.
You can find this in the awesome book "A Short History of Nearly Everything."
it seems the mystery is solved! the dodo birds all jointed together in a giant cult and then drank the koolaide! i should have suspected.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
As for your taste for the flesh of obscure critters, I hear petsorfood is running a special on baby seal this week...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Im hungry.
Netcraft confirms it. Dodos.....
C-x C-s C-x k
"Cornish Game Hens" are just small chickens - not a distinct species at all. Also, they are neither Cornish nor game - they exist only as a domestic breed.
clone it, and bring it back to life!! that would be intresting. Question is, do animals go extinct for a reason? and if we brought it back , would it hurt the ecosystem?
You have really made me re-evaluate my stance towards Christianity. Other than a smug, giddy exuberance over the idea of someone else's eternal suffering, you're a great human being. Obviously your faith has worked wonders within your soul. It's eerie how like the Sermon on the Mount your words are--when reading them, all I could see was love, humility, kindness. You, sir, are a Christian.
Well, we kinda were the reason they became extinct...
True, but not for the most commonly cited reason which is hunting. The Dodo was probably not hunted into extinction by humans since contemporary accounts indicate that grilled Dodo tasted like sh*t. The most probable reason for the Dodo's demise is that it was driven to extinction by feral animals like pigs who were introduced by human settlers. These new animals destroyed it's nests outcompeted it for food but the last nail in it's coffin may have been habitat distruction due to human activity.
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...so a new generation of folks can exterminate 'em again!
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
...when you read the "news for nerds" first on some city's subway free newspaper... /days/ before!
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"It was not known if these remains were stolen or sent abroad secretly."
They were secretly taken abroad to be cloned, where some escaped spreading a disease now known as Bird Flu. Bird Flu is how they were originally wiped out.
Enjoy your burn, unfortunately you may not believe in hell but it believes in you.
"To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from Him for ever by [one's] own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called 'Hell'."(1033) Thus, Pope John Paul II said (see link below), "The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. Rather than a place, Hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy."
Ya gotta remember, atheists already believe they are in this state.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
While I believe that our brains were designed to make us intelligent and inquisitive, I also believe that there is such a thing as "asking too many questions." It's one thing to learn how to invent things that help feed mankind, etc. It's quite another to let fundamental questions about the world show disrespect, distrust, or outright contempt to He that created it. Just a friendly warning. :)
WTF over? I posted this to the MSNBC thread - BEFORE the dodo bird thread was even active.
British matelots would fry up just about anything to get their 4 square per day so long as it came with a side of lime.
Which is why they whupped them pasty French & Spanish epicureans non-stop for about 200 years & spread the red (but not the cuisine).
Which part of "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female" do they not understand? No, the flood theory is not acceptable under the Intelligent Design version.
Fossils were obviously Intelligently Designed. Is there a fossil with a "half-eye"? No. And they weigh more than a duck, which renders them useless for witchcraft as well.
The dodo had an important role to play.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Mauritius is also famous for having a great many highly endangered species. (Think numbers in the single digits.) They're also infamous of having released some, after rebuilding the population in captivity, only for the locals to devour them back out of existence.
The entire island is heavily overpopulated with humans, the environmental concerns are badly neglected (or deliberately overlooked), yet the biodiversity that still exists - albeit in captivity in hopelessly underfinanced, understaffed, underequipped shelters* - exceeds that of virtually the entire USA combined.
*By this, I do not mean they can't go and buy a billion dollar gadget once a week. Accounts usually depict the staff involved in saving the native species as being borderline starvation cases, constantly under threat of one kind or another - particularly of malicious closure, and probably earn less in a month than a kid in a Nike sweatshop can make in an hour.
It is precisely because of conditions like that that I am not the least bit surprised that Dutch scientists would have smuggled out anything they could. You know what? I'm not the least bit sorry for Mauritius. When you treat scientists with enough contempt - hey, scientists are human too, and even the most professional will eventually return the compliment.
I doubt anything will change - except maybe for the worse - in my lifetime. My only hope is that there is something left to salvage by the time attitudes change.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Or God is Satan.
What do they call that sort of argument, again? I had a friend who took philosophy in college, said something about elephants and their trunks. Someone'll know what I'm talking about.
I just wish the rapture would happen already. Soon. Now would be nice. Please, God?
At work. Oh and /.
No, Really. The proof is here: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6214/1220/1600/ dodo.0.jpg
Just chew a scab from your knee and you're there.
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Maybe they tasted really good?! After all they were "killed by sailors for extra food," and their eggs were stolen by ship animals (BBC News). Clone the Dodo! KFD! KFD! KFD!
Oh wait, nevermind. I'm quite sure that you would be giddy to see Christians persecuted - the same sort of joy the Germans felt when they killed off millions of jews for simply being jews.