Turkey Dinosaur
Last year I saw the "Dinosaurs of China" exhibition at the Museum of Melbourne. Imagine my surpise when I saw their velociraptor (the nasty smart ones in Jurassic Park) was covered in feathers. Their argument was that the closest relative of the velociraptor was covered in feathers so it made good sense that he was as well. Enter his mate:
Fossils from a new species of birdlike dinosaur resembling a 2.1 metre brightly coloured turkey and which could run at up to 40 kph have been found in southern Utah.
Fossils of the meat-eater's hand-like claw and foot found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near the Arizona border in Utah, give paleontologists reason to believe some dinosaurs known as raptors roamed from Canada to northern New Mexico about 75 million years ago.
A birdlike dinosaur? Is this more evidence suggesting that birds are descended from dinosaurs? Never. You have to appreciate the irony that this feathered fella was discovered in Mormon territory. The Big G definitely has a sense of humour.
Fossils from a new species of birdlike dinosaur resembling a 2.1 metre brightly coloured turkey and which could run at up to 40 kph have been found in southern Utah.
Fossils of the meat-eater's hand-like claw and foot found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near the Arizona border in Utah, give paleontologists reason to believe some dinosaurs known as raptors roamed from Canada to northern New Mexico about 75 million years ago.
A birdlike dinosaur? Is this more evidence suggesting that birds are descended from dinosaurs? Never. You have to appreciate the irony that this feathered fella was discovered in Mormon territory. The Big G definitely has a sense of humour.
posted by Engels at 5:11 pm
5 Comments:
You fool! There are no "missing links". Haven't you listened to Creationists?!?!! It's all a big conspiracy from the scientific community.
(Actually, they're correct...once a link has been found...it's no longer missing....but I guess that evades their nimble minds. ;) )
With BBQ sauce. Delicious.
Sorry Aidan. I must've let my Creationist subscription lapse...
I should add that last year scientists managed to extract proteins from a T-rex bone. Many of the proteins were identical to those found in osteriches.
Now if only DNA didn't break down over time. We could clone some giant turkeys. What could go wrong?
okay.. tell em this... i always thought "dinosaur bones" were actually mineral deposits which seemed into holes where dinosaur bones sat in mud, and then formed solid rocks etc... so the skeletons we call bones are really rocks.
but that cant be true if they are extracting dino dna... which i also read about.
So, since when do bones last 73 million years?
oh? what? Aaahhhhh... they are only 6 thousand years old? Weeeelll.. that would make sense then... i can see a bone lasting 6000 years maybe..
This is what I thought as well. I think, nearly all cases bones are fossilised. But very rarely, somehow the bones are preserved and the proteins (inside the bone).
Perhaps you can find an article somewhere on the web?
The six thousand years theory is starting to collect evidence...finally...
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