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The Mini Dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-bigger-than-a-baby's-arm dept.

FiReaNGeL writes "When unusually small dinosaur fossils were found in a quarry on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in 1998, it was initially assumed that these were the remains of a group of young dinosaurs. This was a fallacy, as the Bonn palaeontologist, Dr. Martin Sander, recently discovered. At a maximum estimated weight of one tonne, they were only a fiftieth the weight of their closest relatives, the brachiosaurs, and thus by far the smallest of the giant dinosaurs which have ever been found."

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  1. Small Giants by crazyjeremy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh heh... he said "smallest of the giant dinosaurs"

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    1. Re:Small Giants by Lectrik · · Score: 5, Funny
      Heh heh... he said "smallest of the giant dinosaurs"

      's a bit like being the most civilized monkey in the zoo...
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    2. Re:Small Giants by NickFortune · · Score: 2, Funny
      Shush you - or I'll set my minature giant space hamster on you.

      Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!"

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  2. Canarysaurus by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone was going to say it. Get it? Hartz Mountain Inc. sells bird seed? Little dinosaurs? No? I'll go back to Digg now...

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  3. Dinosaur Racing by monkaduck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's get that cloning going and get some dinosaur racing going on! C'mon, what's cooler -- betting the ponies or betting the 'saurs?

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  4. ObUnits by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA: "Their cousins, by contrast, were up to 45 metres long and weighed in at 80 tonnes - as much as a small town of over 1,000 inhabitants."

    I don't understand. How many Volkswagen Beetles is that?

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  5. 'Conspiracy' theory by Netochka · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone ever notice how as you go further and further back in history animals get bigger and bigger compared to their present day counterparts? Like, you go back a little while and you have stuff like mastodons, saber tooth tigers, etc... Then you go back farther and you have stuff like dinosaurs... Trilobites are just like huge bugs... Doesn't anyone else find it weird, like maybe the bones are expanding as time passes or something? Anyways, I don't actually think this is true, I'm just randomly rambling, being stupid.