Zegh's Dinosaur Thread

zegh8578 said:
I like how it was "probably" a meteorites, as oppooosed tooooo? A fiery sky chariot? :D
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Fucking Odin man.

Anyway, on a more serious note at this point I am really kinda surprised that we havn't seen one hiting a city or destroying a building or something. They believe that such a meteroite or what it's called was responsible for the Tunguska event.

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (N.S.).[1][2] The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 km2 (770 sq mi) of forest yet caused no known human casualties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event​
 
Crni Vuk said:
Anyway, on a more serious note at this point I am really kinda surprised that we havn't seen one hiting a city or destroying a building or something. They believe that such a meteroite or what it's called was responsible for the Tunguska event.
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Up untill end of underline could be the perfect beginning of a conspiracy theory website concluding that all meteors are sneaky political cunstructs and that no evidence exists for meteors being real :V

Btw, the recent Russian one, while it didn't destroy buildings, it did quite a bit of structural damage across the nearby city, including shattering a whole lot of windows.
That was probably as hands-on as we have seen so far

Cities, though, are very very small targets. You know, in relation to non-city planetary landscape.
 
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...covered-embryos-fossils-paleontology-science/

Hundreds of Pterosaur Eggs Found in Record-Breaking Fossil Haul

The well-preserved eggs illuminate how the winged reptiles bred—and how their babies may have behaved.

In a world first, paleontologists working in northwestern China have discovered a cache of hundreds of ancient eggs laid by pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Some of the eggs contain the most detailed pterosaur embryos ever found.

Although scientists have studied pterosaurs for more than two centuries, no eggs were discovered until the early 2000s, and fewer than a dozen turned up in the intervening years. The new haul, discovered by Chinese Academy of Sciences paleontologist Xiaolin Wang, includes at least 215—and perhaps as many as 300— stunningly preserved pterosaur eggs.

His team also found 16 embryos within the eggs, and they suspect that more remain locked away in the stone. Wang and his colleagues announced the finds today in Science.
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I wouldn't be surprised if someone at some point will reverse engineer the genetic code of dinosaurs to create one.
 
Lately, I am more and more cynical regarding amazing fossil finds. Each amazing discovery shared with the world, reminds me of all those that are secretly dug up, prepared, and sold to rich collectors, usually illegally (and in China subject to harsh penalties, at least in theory)
The "fossil trade" is ... discretely pervasive in that it's not really a very prioritized crime, therefore does not really get pursued a lot - but the results are very depressing

Fossil poachers know what they're doing, they follow the research closely, and they know what's "in". You can't simply "go and fetch" a legendary fossil though, you have to dig for it. So they do. And since it's illegal, they're not gonna go and hand over the "scrap" fossils to researchers. What they consider scrap, are still treasures of incomplete dinosaur species unknown to science, they'll typically shuffle such "small fry" away on Ebay and such sites.
The big sorrow though, is the truly magnificent fossils, complete material of popular dinosaurs, for example numerous complete Tyrannosaurus skeletons that have been nabbed and sold to private collectors - or the one, first and only ever complete Spinosaurus skull, kept in a private collection, with no access for research, not to mention countles Oviraptorids and other Maniraptorids (small fluffy bird-o-raptors) of all kinds - the more spectacular, the more stunning, the better.
Trophy-collectors pay top dollar, and they're not gonna quit anytime soon. Basically the same driving force that pushes for any other kind of poaching, be it elephant or tiger, or rare parrots simply *because* they are rare.
That's the kind of arrogance that really makes me fume, some rich fuck gloating "there's only 4 left in the world!"
Someone like that take pleasure directly from the fact that they are holding something that is not shared, that is absolutely exclusive - SO exclusive - noone on earth can partake.

Reminds me of these shits who're trying to patent humanity or human genome or the concept of faces or whatever

ugh

had to rant

Nice discovery though, and from what I can tell, its not in China's main dino hotspots, which makes it even more surprising.
 
Crni Vuk said:
Not so adorable anymore when they disembowl you. But they would probably make a happy face.
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Disembowel? The little duck-o-raptor is around 70 cm long, and no taller than a carton of milk. You'd have to be, like, mindbogglingly feeble to get killed by something that would be hard pressed to intimidate a current living duck :V
 
zegh8578 said:
Disembowel? The little duck-o-raptor is around 70 cm long, and no taller than a carton of milk. You'd have to be, like, mindbogglingly feeble to get killed by something that would be hard pressed to intimidate a current living duck :V
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*Shrugs*
 
Plot twist: Darwin had a reincarnated immortal soul of St Nicholas, who was in turn reincarnated from Genghis Khan, who was in turn reincarnated from a pig rapist, who was in turn reincarnated from Moses, who was in turn reincarnated from Queen of Sheba, who was in turn reincarnated from Archon of Lemuria, who was in turn reincarnated from Mary Magdalene, who was in turn reincarnated from Howard Hughes who will be reincaranted from Monica Belluci who is actually Isis, but above all, a matron Deinonychus, which essentially proves that Deinonychus, and Dromaeosauridae to an extent, were cannibals.
 
MutantScalper said:
Not dino but Neanderthal stuff, evidently they did some art. Even 'hashtags'.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43115488
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Yeah, it's intriguing stuff. Humanity is complex, I love it. Reminds me of some news before that, where charchoal traces had been discovered (iirc), and surmised to suggest simple forms of face-paint in neanderthal culture. Now of course, to sit back and watch white supremacists or someone turn it into something else
 
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