When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans

onehitwonder writes "Reuters reported yesterday on new scientific research that indicates how dinosaurs beat out another early reptilian species for domination of the earth. Roughly 200 million years ago, dinosaurs battled with another dinosaur-like animal, the crurotarsan, which is related to the crocodile. Some species grew to 39 feet long, according to the article, at an epoch when few dinosaurs exceeded 10 feet in length. Scientists used to believe that dinosaurs beat out the crurotarsans because the dinosaurs were physiologically superior. But new research indicates that dinosaurs might have won out due to a large stroke of cosmic luck, the nature of which is speculative."

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[Otter]

I realize that you morons know nothing about science, and therefore need to make the same stupid comment over and over again on every paleontology, geology and astronomy story. But surely news of dinosaurs battling giant crocodiles is exciting enough that even the most ignorant computer fixer could find something to say about it?

Incidentally, I'd bet that the lengths referred to in the article (like 33 feet) are over-exact conversions of metric approximations, as I'd mentioned in the underground fossil forest story, where you idiots were also making the same "6000 years old" again and again.

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So you're saying that the only reason you don't ridicule Black, Asian or Jewish people is that they can't help being whatever it is you would otherwise find ridiculous. Thanks for spelling out clearly just how racist you are.