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Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the begun-the-clone-wars-have dept.

damn_registrars writes "A fossilized hadrosaur has been uncovered in South Dakota that has preserved soft tissue. This is described as a "mummified" dinosaur, and allows for a look at the skin and musculature of some parts of this animal. The find was reported by a 24 year old Yale graduate student of paleontology."

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  1. North Dakota, Not South Dakota by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny
    First line of the summary:

    A fossilized hadrosaur has been uncovered in South Dakota that has preserved soft tissue. First line of the article:

    A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin and muscles, scientists will announce today. For those of you who have not visited both North & South Dakota, I have. They are, in fact, not the same place. The submitter was probably confused as the belief that nothing comes from North Dakota is a well known fact. However, this news and fossil flies right in the face of that so I have to rework my post graduate thesis on black holes--it seems information can escape.

    Also, since I just watched Bender's Big Score repeatedly, "It's DOLOMITE, baby!"

    You see, beneath the fossil's crunchy, mineral shell, there's still a creamy core of hadrosaur nougat!
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    My work here is dung.
    1. Re:North Dakota, Not South Dakota by Jesus_666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      There was, in the early nineties. It didn't work out and they had to re-release Classic Mexico. It was the biggest failure of the North American nation industry until the Crystal Canada fiasco.

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      USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
  2. Also In news: Dinosaur Saddle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A team of creationist paleontologists from the Discovery Institute's main field research arm announced today that they had discovered the remains of a large manmade object confirmed to be an ancient dinosaur saddle. The Discovery Institute's discovery was discovered in the remote Dusty Rivers area of southwestern Arizona. A spokesman for the paleontological team said that the dinosaur saddle provides irrefutable proof that man and dinosaurs lived simultaneously, as predicted by most creationist or "intelligent design" doctrines.

    http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=126

  3. A quote from Dr. Malcom by sexybomber · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. God creates dinosaurs
    2. God destroys dinosaurs
    3. God creates man
    4. Man destroys God
    5. Man creates dinosaurs