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Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."
"Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur" I was really disappointed when I realized what they meant by "horniest"
am glad that thing is extinct.
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I read the title twice... only to confirm what I took for a mistake, but nooooo... it really says the world horniest... And after reading the first sentence, the dream was gone. Slashdot still isn't sexy :(
There were elephants with four tusks, where the extra tusks offered virtually no advantage as far as anyone can tell. The horns on a dinosaur were of dubious defensive or offensive value and may well have been to improve cooling (greater surface area to radiate from) or for display. It would have made dealing with thick vegetation a problem - more ways to get tangled up. Ok, so if we go with improving cooling, in order to provide any serious advantage there has to be a significant source of heat that the triceratops did not face. Perhaps this dinosaur moved faster, or was more active in general.
Ever since paleontologists discovered proteins inside dino bones and even found a fossil that partially preserved the colour of the skin, the understanding of dino lives has changed dramatically.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I can only imagine what the reaction must have been when the team accidentally broke that T. rex femur -- probably going from "oh, shit" when it first broke, and then to a very different sort of "oh, shit!" when they realized it still had the marrow in it.
Cheers,
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
This is similar to another recent discovery: http://www.theonion.com/video/paleontologists-discover-skeleton-of-natures-first,14320/
Randy.
more cowbell
Possibly even hornier than the dickwolves.
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Jee, is everyone writing on the web 13 years old ?
...there is a Guardian copy editor who is going home proud of themselves for a job well done.
Weekly World News called. They want their headline back.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/22/horniest-dinosaur-kosmoceratops-utah/print
Sig this!
Big deal. So they've discovered Larry King.
"Salt Lake City, hello..."
Is it just me, or does that illustration look like the world's Roy Horniest dinosaur?
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In "Predator," Jesse Ventura assured me that chewing tobacco would make me "a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like [him]." I presume this is how Kosmoceratops got this way.
Hold on...Utah? They're saying Larry King's Mormon?
Maybe it's just that the world's horniest dinosaur prefers to prey on Mormon girls. That must be it.
The PR from University of Utah http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=092010-1 lots more details than any of the NEWS sites have published also check out http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100922121943.htm
I know, I know... I take all the fun out of stuff.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Really? I'd like to know how many people actually knew what they were talking about when they saw the title.
I take all the fun out of stuff.
No, you're just missing the point. It may be hard, but don't let the puns get a rise out of you. They'll never erect a statue in honor of you horning in on the conversation.
The enemies of Democracy are
I believe this particular one will be called the "hefnersaurus"
...does it look like a parrot with an emo fringe?
"These animals are basically oversized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. ..."
wah? mammals on the triassic????? fuck me
A photo of the world's leading pornographer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Bob_Bakker.jpg
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
I thought this article was going to be about promiscuous dinosaurs, but it's about dinosaurs with many horns! Damn you slashdot! By the way, I didn't RTFS or TFA
Ever since Walking With Dinosaurs, things have gotten a bit silly. Creative licence should be revoked at times. There's no way they can know what skin colour these guys had.
Maybe dinosaurs died out because all the elaborate colours and plumage made them all easy prey for each other. The ones left over starved. Makes sense, let's go with that.
Don't even bother replying to stiffs like this guy. Your life is rough and busy enough I'm sure, and getting into a long and hard argument with a pr*** isn't worth it.
Humans are terrible replicators of Godly things.
So they found it in its mother's basement?
That's a Chernobyl chicken!
They should better double check if it's really it's own head. They have already made such a mistake with brontosaurs.
Now that would have been a title.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Takeoffyourtops?
Reallyfuckingsoreass?
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Now THAT site is what scientific publications should be all about. No steenking membership. No steenking expensive annual fees.
You go there, you look around, you get to read abstracts _and_ the full damned paper (with ALL the images, hooray!). Great stuff.
Every scientific publication (or at least the ones being funded by OUR tax dollars) should work that way!
Cosmo Kramer + Michael Richards + Dinosaur = Kosmoceratops richardsoni
Excuse me, are you referring to the guardian as a scietific publication or am i missing something?