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Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered
Cyclist110 writes "The BBC has the story of the discovery, in Inner Mongolia, of a Dinosaur bird twice the size of a man and weighing in at over 3000 lbs. From the article: 'Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia. The researchers had originally thought they had found the bones of a tyrannosaur — the group of dinosaurs to which T. rex belongs — due to their large size.'"
So this will be discredited when?
I'm more interested in how the Creationists will attempt to explain this one
Perhaps they'll claim it was man's best friend?
meh.
I've never heard of a human 4 metres tall nor have I seen height being measured from foot to shoulder.
So it's twice the size of a man and weighs 3000 pounds?
Waaaaaark!
BTW, she looks like she just smoked a big ol' rock doesn't she?
this thing wasn't even done growing either- it was 11 years old when it died and apparently had a lot more growing up to do before it died.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
I have already spent years mastering the control of these beasts!
If birdlike dinosaurs got that big then giant chickens must be possible. Just imagine the MacNuggets!
(score -1: really, really f'ing lame)
All pass beyond reach of medicine. None pass beyond the reach of love.
Phorusrhacids (marketed as Terror Birds!!! by the ever highbrow Scientific American) are cooler giant extinct birds. I like the way in the SciAm pictures they have a thoughtful, confident expression too, like they're thinking "I could bite that dude's head clean off. I don't think he knows that"
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E.g. see the picture here -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0
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It would have been more terrifying if I didn't first have to work out what those ridiculous Imperial units meant...!
[Eating_Chicken] Giant bird resembling a chicken walks up to me and stares menacingly.
[/Eating_Chicken]"I hope you two were not related"
[Loud Clucking]
[run]
Even more evidence that Nazis rode dinosaurs!
I am too lazy to find hard references, but Xing Xu, the researcher who found
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this fossil was once involed in the discovery of another "dinosaur bird" which
was shown as a fraud. To his credit, he was also involved in the team that discovered
the fraud (isn't it strange?)
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1
FTFA : In 2001 he was embroiled in controversy over the discovery of a fossil believed to be the 'missing link between dinosaurs and birds, which tests revealed to be a clever fraud.
Well, it's pretty simple, actually. I believe in some way, shape or form, God created the thing. Maybe He made it evolve, maybe He made it appear out of thin air...essentially I don't know, and don't need to. Creationism and science aren't necessarily exclusive. I simply believe that the scientific reasons behind what happens exist at the behest of a supreme being.
Quiz: True or False -- On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your middle name?
You rationalize like a creationist.
For starters humans are larger than most other primates and our fossil record shows a progression in height.
Aside from that, evolution makes no prediction about size. Evolution is not (does not have to be) linear. What is predictable, is that if size matters (either smaller or larger) a population will tend to the beneficial size over time.
-CF
I, for one, welcome our 3000 lb, twice-as-tall-as-a-man, giant dinosaur bird overlords.
Vivin Suresh Paliath
http://vivin.net
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Drie duisend pond is 'n blerrie groot voe"l...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
What was Oregon Trail written in?
Signed,
Grumpus Maximus
That, gentlemen, is a great big cock.
What?
It's basically a big rooster, right?
What's that look for?
NO CARRIER
probably needed two Pratt and Whitney JT9D's to get it to fly. I believe this was the first wide-bodied chicken and was put into service by various airlines in China. When it crashed, there was always enough food until rescuers arrived.....
It takes a lot of Big Macs to make a man 1500 lbs.
This thing cannot fly; it can only run. It is the Chocobo.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. But like anyone after much work, He was hungry; so at that moment He said: "Wait, one more thing...Let there be a KFC!" And with those words a giant dinosaur bird appeared, battered in the Colonel's secret recipe and deep fried. He took one bite of it and said: "Mmmm, tastes just like chicken."
What is not clear to me is why so many bird-like dino's evolved beaks, even (so far) indepedently of each other in some cases. Other than pecking into trees, which was probably a niche of only a few, I don't see what advantage beaks have over teethed jaws. If a beak cracks off, it is harder to grow back than teeth.
Another little mystery is why snails survive. Their method of locamotion seems rather expensive and slow compared to legs. Being able to pull into a shell helps, but what about slugs? The insects should have wiped their niche out long ago.
Table-ized A.I.
Anyone else see "giant dinosuar bird" and immediately think chocobo?
Maybe it's just me.
...some killer drumsticks that would be a hit at any SCA wingding, and family sized omelets! A *big* family!
Some men are longer than others....I guess
This story has been posted for long enough. Where's the "I bow before our new feathered overlords?" Or how about "I'm allergic to down, you insensitive clod!"
/. really *is* getting less worth my time!
Man
No sig for you!!
It's twice the size of a man but weighs 3000 pounds (about twenty times what a man weighs)...
and it flew??
I for one mourn the loss of our Gigantoraptor overlords. May we always be rulled by beings as humble and powerful as the Gigantoraptor.
Error:
over 3000 lbs. From the article: 'Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant
That's a relief.
I, for one, welcome our giant bird dinosaur overlo--- oh, wait, just the fossils? Nevermind then.
-David
You're right. This theory of evolution doesn't make any sense, so Christianity must be right. Let's all pray to God and ask for forgiveness.
Not all fossils out of China are hoaxes, and I have yet to see one scientific site discredit this find. So for now the fossil stands:
Gigantoraptor:
flightless birdlike dinosaur
feathers (some paleontologists theorize feathers first provided an evolutionary bonus for their insulation value)
young adult
3,080lbs
26ft long
10 - 12ft tall
11 years old
evolutionary side branch from birds.
Science has no truths, ideally, science can only disprove hypothesis and theorem, so until someone disproves this find, it stands as the current science of palaeontology.
-Magdalene --"there are 10 types of people in the world, those who read binary, and those who don't"
This story was posted at 9:35. This comment was posted at 9:39. Thats a whole four minutes on a story about dinosaurs, ect., without someone trying to be funny by making a lame creationist joke. Yep, didn't see that coming. Seriously, could someone please tell me so many people on /. feel so threatened by creationism that they feel the need to make bad jokes about it every other story? You'd swear that half the people here are closet creationists who are trying to deny it by doing this stuff.
Back in the day, cavemen would breed these things. They'd take two of them, and have them mate. Then they'd take a select male and a select female offspring mate them. Then they'd pick out a male and female pair from that litter and mate those! Then, maybe they'd do it one more time. The result was a bird so fucked up, it couldn't walk, let alone run. Then they'd race them.
That's what the bugger is, just a giant chocobo.g s ci_nat_enl_1181757285/html/1.stm
Compare yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FFX_Chocobo.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/
I think I figured it out, Slashdot gives people with a sense of humor modpoints during the week, & everyone else modpoints on the weekend. :)
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
much bigger than the mcnuggests of today...
Fancy how big the first algae and bacteria must have been!
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I though it was only a dinosaur if it couldn't fly.
Otherwise its just a large flying reptile existing in the same period as dinosaurs right?
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Okay, we've all seen the pics of the T Rex with thighs that look like a speed skater's, and being told that at that scale, it wouldn't be able to hold itself up. Now we have a dino-chicken in similar scale with those little spindly things? I think not.
How do you say, "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?" in Mandarin Chinese?
What is the operator? It's not XOR.
You're absolutely right. But dinosaurs also existed before Imperial units, so according to your logic the story should have read:
Happy now?
Then again, you do know that dinosaurs existed way before humans, and therefore any measurement system, right?
I know! Let's just use SI units and get over ourselves, eh? Whadda ya say?!
they will tell us they have found the fossilized remains of a Snufalufagus!
3000 lbs is more than twice the size of man.
"Another little mystery is why snails survive. Their method of locamotion seems rather expensive and slow compared to legs. Being able to pull into a shell helps, but what about slugs? The insects should have wiped their niche out long ago."
I was out hunting in Oregon's coast range once and came across a fresh coyote poop. Clearly visible (I ain't poking around in poop, especially one this nasty!) was the remains of a slug. Other than being bitten in half it had gone through the entire digestive tract without visible damage. Slugs are really nasty and hardly anything will eat them. That poor coyote won't try it again either--with as slimy as the things are it probably was tasting the slug for a week.
Also in Oregon the slugs can reach lengths of up to 9 inches, maybe more, so there's a whole lot of predators that just look at them and try not to barf.
...Kentucky fried Gigantoraptor.
... maybe in 200 million years they will find Jesus, stoned, in the mud.
... sea.
;D
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He'll be a fake aswell thought
Chocobo!!
As I predicted:
"When all the disgusting ugly giant flying reptiles disappear from the face of the Earth, Mankind will have only four years left".
- Ze Laws ov Termodynamics? BAH!
Kelvin vas a fool!
Mit Hydrogen + Pinoqachole ve can break zes laws anytime!