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4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx
Wired reports on a find described September 24 in a note at Nature and the day after at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: a dinosaur fossil bearing true feathers on four limbs. The fossil was discovered in northeastern China, in strata believed to have been deposited between 151 million and 161 million years ago. If that estimate is correct, the newly discovered Anchiornis huxleyi is at least one million years older than the believed age of the more famous winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
8-Winged Meta-Bird?
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We're all doomed if they manage to bring these birds back to life in the future. This is almost as bad as flying mantas.
"Chance favors only the prepared mind." -Archimedes
My sister's husband's brother's cousin knew a kid who met a Chinese kid on the internet who said he was part of the team that made this thing. Those Chinese can make anything.
*Yawn* wake me when they find a Yeti....
so i guess two wings didn't do the job of flight for this proto birds
who are you? that kid from Jurassic Park who keeps asking about "that other guy's" book?
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
hey back off, on an evolutionary time scale, that's lightning fast.
"Fuck it, we're going to five wings."
did you ever think why these so-called missing links are dead and buried in the ground? god killed them, that's why. doesn't that teach you anything? THEY AREN'T HERE ANYMORE. don't you wonder why that is and why you shouldn't dig this stuff up? god killed them fair and square. who gives you the right to mess around with god's intention?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Are you kidding? The story comes 151 million years after the fact! And that wasn't even the release date!
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
The really depressing thing is the article comments. It seems the Creationists found out about the article, and are pinging the bejeezus out of it in the comments.
My personal favorite bit of ignorance starts like this:
am nor a scientist or even an academic of any kind but as I understand it and please tell me if I am wrong but for a Theory to become fact it has to ...
*raaaaaaaaz*! Thanks for playing.
Loving Troll Father, we thank you for this cornucopia of naivete,
And for all your blessings of the easily duped to us.
Lord Troll Jesus, come and be our guest,
And take your place at this trollish table of bounty.
Holy Troll Spirit, as the trolled fool feeds our trollish pride,
So we pray you would nourish our trollish souls. Amen.
so beeth the prayer of the troll upon a successful catch
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it