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First Fossil Evidence That Velociraptors Hunted in Packs
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The New Scientist reports that palaeontologists have excavated a fossil trackway in Shandong Province in China 100 to 120 million years old that contains footprints left by six Dromeosaurs, the more formal name for raptors, showing evidence of group behavior. Up until now, the popular stereotype from Jurassic Park of raptors hunting in packs has had no fossil evidence to back it up. The paths of the six 90 kilo raptors do not overlap where the animals walked alongside a river or stream. '"The odds of these tracks being made by different individuals that just happen to be moving in the same direction, without their tracks stepping on one another, are small," said Jerry D. Harris, director of paleontology at Dixie State College. "Groups that do that usually have relatively sophisticated behavior, and they're relatively intelligent," Harris added. "By moving together in groups, it's entirely possible that they hunted in groups."'"
Who needs fossil evidence? Just watch the movie. See? Packs.
let the XKCD references begin
seriously, i wish God would stop planting 'evidence' of dinosaurs, this is getting rather tiresome.
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
They were obediently following Adam and Eve around, and it was only 6000 years ago. Blasphemers!
Ok my karma is maxed out. When do I become Enlightened?
so velociraptors may have been pack hunters? thanks for the nightmares.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Now all we need to find is some evidence of raptors being able to open up doors, and we'll have proof that Hollywood knows more about Dinosaurs than Science.
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sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
This link is more relevant: http://xkcd.com/135/
.. with lots of free time and a sense of humor. :|
If they were so amazingly smart as to know that humans would come along a few tens of million years after their time, yet stupid enough to worry about it.... Nah, I think I'll discount that idea.
And this one. Where are your velociraptor entry-points?
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"The paths of the six 90 kilo raptors do not overlap where the animals walked alongside a river or stream. '"The odds of these tracks being made by different individuals that just happen to be moving in the same direction, without their tracks stepping on one another, are small," said Jerry D. Harris, director of paleontology at Dixie State College."
Wow, they must really be smart. They travel single-file, to conceal their number.
"They're moving in herds... they do move in herds!"
Well, it's not planted as such. At some point the great game designer in the sky thought it would be fun to have some big stuff running around the high level areas. And some 90 kilo birds that He planned to use later as the Blood Elves' mount.
But you know how that ends up working. You tweak a little here, a little there, and next thing you know they're whining that you've nerfed them to death and start cancelling their subscriptions in droves.
So, you know, cut Him some slack. What do you expect Him to do? Hide that they ever existed? Like that ever works. Try deleting just a post or two on a board and you end up with a whole rebellion on your hand. Try denying that the game ever had dinosaurs? Ooer... noone does... ermm...
Well, OK, so Sony's propaganda machine does try to present the new animal breeding on SWG like some revolutionary new feature, and not, say, like they had animal handlers in the first place and they removed them.
But I figure God is better than Sony, you know? (Ok, ok, so that's not hard to achieve;) He's not affraid to admit that some things weren't that well balanced in the first place and had to be changed.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
This is rediculous. Have you ever tried to play 3on3 without anybody's paths crossing?
For that matter, what are the chances that six raptors with beers would be able to walk a straight line?
You clearly need to put more thought into your hypotheses before you present them. Now go and completely rewrite this paper.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
No need to travel to a new place. Simply travel back in time 100 million years.
Understatement of the week.......
It was already known that Dinosaurs were sociable animals. They are still alive in a special place. It is called Congress.
Yeah, this just establishes that they died in packs; perhaps also that they had cults and poor judgment.
And this one as well.
What we're imagining is a velociraptor cluster.
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It's a trick. Get an Axe.
Wake me up when there's fossil evidence that Jesus had a pet dinosaur.
It goes way beyond that. This proves that they were marching 6 abreast. If some were walking behind the others, the footprints would still have overlapped. The theory of caveman dinosaur cavalry formations has never had any fossil evidence ... until now!
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
Fortunately, the difficulty in obtaining the dinosaur DNA and SGI workstations is more than compensated for by the ease of finding a smart ass obese slovenly IT guy...
Hermes Conrad: On to new business. Today's mission is to go to the brain slug planet.
Dr. Zoidberg: What are we going to do there?
Hermes Conrad: Nothing. Just walk around not wearing a helmet.