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New Dinosaur Species Is a Missing Link

Posted by samzenpus on from the filling-in-the-blanks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new dinosaur provides a link between what paleontologists consider 'early' and 'later' dinosaurs. There's a gap in the fossil record between the oldest known dinosaurs, which walked or ran on their hind legs about 230 million years ago in Argentina and Brazil, and other predatory dinosaurs that lived much later. Daemonosaurus chauliodus helps fill in a blank in dinosaur history."

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  1. And now there are TWO gaps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And now there are TWO gaps!

  2. "Daemon"osaurus? by TheABomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did it run on Linux?

    Sorry, but it is /., so I had to ask.

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  3. Species 404? by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    The missing link?

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  4. Now there are two gaps .. by jc42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the ongoing "discussion" with the creationists, it has occasionally been pointed out that whenever a biologist finds a fossil that fills in a gap in the fossil record, one result is to replace the one gap with two gaps. Thus, no such discovery can ever persuade the creationists; it just adds to their list of known gaps in the fossil record To them, evolutionary theory can't be ready for prime time until all the fossil gaps are filled in. They don't acknowledge the patterns that biologists find in the (admittedly very sketchy) fossil record.

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