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New Type of Dinosaur Unearthed

MileHighScience writes to mention that a new type of sauropod has been discovered by scientists from Utah's Brigham Young University. Dubbed Abydosaurus mcintoshi, the new addition to the long necked dinosaur family was discovered at Dinosaur National Monument. "The circumstances of its discovery were both unusual and dramatic. The researchers stumbled on four skulls in a quarry at the preserve. Two were still intact. Sauropod skulls are rarely found in the fossil record because the soft tissue from which they are constructed is unlikely to be preserved after death. 'Their heads are built lighter than mammal skulls because they sit way out at the end of very long necks,' Brooks Britt, a BYU paleontologist said in a news release. 'Instead of thick bones fused together, sauropod skulls are made of thin bones bound together by soft tissue.' Of more than 120 known species of sauropods, there have been only eight instances in which scientists have been able to recover intact skulls."

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  1. Nay, I am Moroni! by copponex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The last living white skinned follower of Jesus in North America! And you have blasphemed Elohim, and are doomed to come back with darker skin!!

    Seriously. Mormons are slightly less dumb than Scientologists. That's not a compliment.

  2. Re:Right into the trap... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it's not fear

    You may be right. "Hatred" of gays, women, and athiests might be more precise.

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  3. New or just previously undiscovered? by hyades1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Soft head...tiny brain...a Paleoconservative, no doubt.

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  4. Re:I'll be damned! by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I define christianism in the way Nietzsche did it: the perversion of everything that is beautiful and sacred about the human spirit. The worship of the weak and diseased. The poisoning of life itself.

    So, yes, mormons are christians too. They fit the definition pretty well.

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  5. Re:Right into the trap... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    BULLSHIT. Religion should be treated without exceptions.

    If you believe that ALIEN are out there, and wear a TINFOIL hat everywhere, BAM! in the nuthouse you go!
    if you believe that GOD is out there, and wear a KIPPAH hat everywhere, BAM! to the funny house with you too!

    Why should we make this differeces? Religions are no different from delirium tremend, and should be treated with anti-psychotics too!

    And anyone defending this criminally insane people should be executed on sight.

    Damn you people. It's 2010 already. how much longer are you going to pretend that religion is OK?

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