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Museum IDs New Species of Dinosaur

Posted by Hemos on from the dinosuars-rock dept.

Uryugen writes "A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said. The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops — which came 10 million years later. However, this animal belonged to a subfamily that usually had bony nubbins a few inches long above their eyes"

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  1. Re:Oh no he didn't by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not at all. The fossils are real, but the dinosaurs co-existed with humans relatively recently, probably between the time when God created the Earth and the middle ages - and some dinosaurs probably still exist today. I can prove all of this because it's written in an old book. It's also written plainly in the Dinosaur article on Conservapedia.

    (I'm thinking of signing up as a Conservapedia editor purely to expand on articles like these.)

  2. Re:Two Responses by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Human: "Oooh, look at me! I've got an enlarged Broca's region in my frontal lobe! DE-FENSE!"
    Zuniceratops: "Oh yeah? Well how about this--BAM, the ole' horn in the eye!"

    Human: Oh, we have those, too. They're smaller, but they travel faster from these bow things we invented, and we can hit you from 100 feet away.
    (Arrow "thwip" sound)
    Zuniceratops: Ow! My eye!
    (Arrow "thwip" sound)
    Zuniceratops: Ow! My other eye!
    Human: Ha ha ha! We're going to eat you!
    Zuniceratops: Noooooo!
    Human: And use your balls as an aphrodesiac.
    Zuniceratops: OK, now that was unnecessary.
    Human: And *these* are spears!
    (woosh!)
    Zuniceratops: Argh!

  3. A New Source of Oil by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool, a new source of oil!

    And you guys said it wasn't renewable. See, that's why I like science. They are always finding new species. More oil. More oil. I'm going to go buy a Hummer.

    Dino-Poop Power for the People.

    Wait...Oh, I see the flaw. Nevermind.

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  4. Re:Oh no he didn't by the_womble · · Score: 4, Funny

    Conservapedia have done it, they have beaten wikipedia!

    Yes, Wikipedia are no-longer the least authoritative source of information on the internet.

  5. Fair enough. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not 100% sure what that link points to, but it definately doesn't work.... Lets try http://www.filmdeculte.com/photo/dossier/scorsese/ portrait/2.jpg Preview works wonders...
    Your browser obviously doesn't support the Monday Morning HTML standard.
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  6. When I read the headline... by Hanners1979 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it translated in my head as "Museum Intelligently Designs New Species of Dinosaur".

    I've obviously been getting involved in too many evolution-related debates.

    1. Re:When I read the headline... by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

      Those aren't horns... they're handle bars for Adam to hold onto while riding it.

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