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New Dinosaur Species Discovery In Utah Released
A new species of dinosaur discovered in Utah's Grand Staircase was only recently released to the public. Dubbed Gryposaurus Monumentensis (derived from a combination of "hook-beaked lizard" and a tip of the hat to the discovery location) scientists estimate this duck-billed dino could have had as many as 800 teeth in his massive mouth. "While the diet is unknown, given the considerable size of the creature, the massive teeth and jaws are thought to have been used to slice up large amounts of tough, fibrous plant material. The teeth may hold important clues the dinosaur's eating habits. The Utah museum plans to study the composition of the dinosaur teeth, which when compared to other plant-eating dinosaurs from the Kaiparowits Formation, will help researchers decipher differences in diet."
This contradicts The Book of Moron, therefore it must be false.
and the diet is unknown? I think it's safe to say that this thing ate whatever the hell it damn well wanted to eat.
OMG they released a Dinosour in Utah! Run for the hills!
One conclusion we can make about this dinosaur is that it was clearly a polygamist.
Muthafuckin Mormons be gettin all the bomb-ass dinoz.
Practically whenever I see dinosaurs depicted in movies, TV or other mass media, they're shown living in deserts, among volcanoes, as if their environment were the same then as it is now, when we find their fossils in those harsh conditions. Since species go extinct when they're not fit to survive a changed environment, I expect they didn't actually live in places that looked like that.
This "new" dinosaur was found in a desert, near the Grand Staircase. Does the Staircase predate the death of these dinosaurs? Was it a desert when they died, or was it fertile? What did these ancient landscapes, including ones we're used to seeing amidst desert, really look like when dinosaurs roamed them?
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While certainly a fascinating find, bones alone can tell us only so much about these fascinating creatures.
For example: how did Jesus strap His saddle on a Gryposaurus?
Grip-osaurus?
Sounds like a looter to me, fucking scavengers...
"Yoink! I got your corpse!"
Now, this giant tooth masses would unroll from the jaws sort of like a massive roll of ultra-thick paper towels. Teeth would wear out at the chewing face and be continually replaced by teeth in the "roll" behind them.
And, when you use genus-species binomial nomenclature, the genus is capitalized but the species is not: it's spelled Gryposaurus monumentensis, which TFA got right.
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Too bad they didn't choose to name this species after a particularly vocal anti-science crusader. I don't have any in particular in mind, but, seems like nothing would be quite so annoying as that.
Might I suggest naming it after another soon-to-be-extinct species, hence the "Zuneosaur".
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Also, Dude, "hook-beaked lizard" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Saurian American," please.
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Please place all your cliche ID and creationism jokes here so that normal people, who are bored with those tired jokes, wont have to be bothered with them. It's the science-thread equivalent of "first post" so I know some people think they're clever when they do it.
It woun't be radioactive, it will just big a big deep lake of bullshit.
Did anyone else parse that as "Gripeosaurus"? I thought they were talking about my ex there for a second.
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Even the simple garden snail has hundreds of "teeth". Reference.
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...Utahraptor?
Every time the scientists dig up a fossil, they add two more "missing links" to the Creationists databases.
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I married one of those! They only seem to come in the female form... and they gripe all the time!
I scanned the article, but the usual estimate height/weight of the dinosaur is missing. Would some one please dig up the info and post it. (Height in number of school buses or stories high, and weight in number of baby elephants or the good old standby libraries of congress).
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This is something I often wonder about at night.
I don't see why this is such a discovery. Dinosaur in Utah...pft... I mean we already have a live one in captivity here. I mean who cares about stupid bones...we even know what awful noises it is capable of making.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
Is this the only specimen found for this species? If it's the only one, I wonder if science can tell whether it is a new species with a deformity, or whether the species actually look like that. Imagine some alien species in the distant future digging up bones of the elephant man or someone with a weird deformity and thought we all looked like that, or that we were a sub-species or something!
Talking about extint dinosaurs, how about that old SCOsaurius DarlMcBridesus that met extinction past week.
They said they where discovered under a pile of fosil excrement dubbed by archeologists as FUDiite.
In the case of the scosaurios, archeologists say, the fudiite has been found to be produced by the same dinosaur, suggesting that they practically drowned in their own crap.
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Modern Scholars are still debating if the scriptures refer the Bestest Friend Barney the Neighbor to the terrible purple one. No records of the schism exist other then references the book of Latter Day [Fruity] Pebbles which describes the war in Bedrock over the wonderful cereal (part of a balanced breakfast).
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Practically whenever I see dinosaurs depicted in movies, TV or other mass media, they're shown living in deserts, among volcanoes
There is actually some logic to this: grass had not evolved while the Dinosaurs were around. There are now not many places on the planet where there is no grass except where nothing grows so volcanoes and deserts are logical locations. This was mentioned in the "Making of Walking With Dinosaurs" as one of the biggest problems with finding good filming locations.
New Dinosaur Species Discovery In Utah Released:
Is it called the SCOXosaur?
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given the considerable size of the creature, the massive teeth and jaws are thought to have been used to slice up large amounts of...
Mammals: It's what's for dinner.
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More extensive coverage about this story was broken by the Salt Lake City Tribune a week ago.
Why is this news?
I read somewhere that we discover a new dinosaur species about once a month.
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I thought it said "Gyrosaurus" there for a second. Mmm...Gyrosaurus...
Dinosaurs went extinct cuz Utah is so fuckin boring. They died of boredom.
Balderdash!
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Genesis talks about a 'land of giants' and other things. Young-Earthers might moan (yet again) because they're laboring under a misconception; the 6,000 year idea came from a well-meaning priest trying to make use of Numbers to learn the time between Adam and Christ, but all five of his assumptions, which he listed like a good scholar, were wrong. It's true; get over it. We have 200+ ways to date things, and they will all nearly-agree.
But while there's no monolog about the creation of every secies of every animal isn't in there, the mention of the development of plants gets a summary that matches the fossil record. It's just not important; God made the plants and animals, sure, but what has his most interest is in _people_ not pre-Adam history. (And, it would make the canon a HUGE document!)
For centuries the Bible talked about the Hittites that used to exist; only aroun 1950-1960 did they actually dig up one of their cities. And the common understanding of Babylonian leaders seemed 'wrong' until it was later learned that two leaders co-existed at the time, one on a battlefield, one at the government desk.
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The point is, the Bible isn't one document, handed down from generation to generation; it's hundreds-of-thousands of documents, some written by disinterested parties like Roman Journalist that are used to decide if the documents found are true. There are many good reasons, for example, that the Gospel of Judas isn't in the canon. Teams of people are reasoning the existance of such documents, it's not blind faith.
But I know, a lot of folks will show up anyway, uninformed, that will yell and scream for well-meaning reasons, say a bunch of stupid things, but I'm here to clear the air; this isn't anti-Biblical. It just doesn't get much mention, for good reason. It's not a timeline published by the "Wall Street Journal" of the generations, it's a love letter from the entity that created all, hoping you'll give Him a proper chance. It's a lot more accurate than the people on the street might have you believe.
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The book of Mormon has a strong literary connection to Treasure Island. Sadly Dinosuar's weren't popular reading material for people back in dem'dere days.
Massive teeth and jaws you say? They should have named it the Bababooeyasaurus.
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Actually the number of missing links only go up by one :)
There was a missing link before, we break it and add 2 more, so +2-1=+1
This assumes that each new discovery creates 2 adjacent "missing transitional fossils". If between A and B, a "missing link" C is discovered, then the links D (between A and C) and E (between C and B) pop up. So yeah, it goes up by 2.
I don't think they're satisfied until every possible specimen is discovered so you have an actual 1:1 family tree.
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i thought dinos were extinct. How could there be any that are new?
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Because rock wouldn't give you the composition of such things as the percentage of nitrogen in the diet. This is more of a mummy.