Dinosaur "mummy" discovered
Several years ago, paleontology graduate student Tyler Lyson, then a teenager, found an incredibly well-preserved duck-billed dinosaur on his North Dakota property. Now, a team of researchers, including Lyson, have announced details of the discovery and excavation. Amazingly, the hadrosaur, roughly 35 feet long and weighing 35 tons, was naturally "mummified." Mineralization left much of its soft tissue, bones, tendons, ligaments, and skin intact. Seen here, a bit of its scaly skin. The scientists have named the 67 million-year-old creature Dakota. From National Geographic:
Link"This specimen exceeds the jackpot," said excavation leader Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at Britain's University of Manchester and a National Geographic Expeditions Council grantee.
Most dinosaurs are known only from their bones, which are seldom found joined together as they would be in real life.
But "we're looking at a three-dimensional skin envelope," Manning said. "In many places it's complete and intact—around the tail, arms, and legs and part of the body."
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You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Fred Flintstone did.
I see one. Look, there it is.
"The Dino-Mummy from Hell Creek" sounds like an awesome B-movie.
I'm sure "Cank" was just joking with "somebody actually saw Adam and Eve." Oh really?, WHO? What was his/her name that saw these two mythical progenitors? I guess because it's in a book that means it's real? If so, Bram Stoker warns "watch out for vampires!" Hmmm. . . we should believe hearsay evidence, but disbelieve actual, physical (albeit fossilized) evidence? No thanks.
Whenever another important fossil gets discovered I go to the AOL homepage, click on the story, and see what all the ignorant nutbags are saying about "it can't possibly be 6 million years old-- the earth is only 5000 years old, blah blah blah blah blah."
*sigh*
Whether Cank was kidding or not, s/he's wrong! Of course people saw dinosaurs. Cavemen lived side by side dinosaurs after the Earth was created 6,000 years ago. Duh!
"Whenever another important fossil gets discovered I go to the AOL homepage, click on the story, and see what all the ignorant nutbags are saying about "it can't possibly be 6 million years old-- the earth is only 5000 years old, blah blah blah blah blah."
Funnily enough I avoided the comments on this topic most of the day because I knew it'd be the opposite.
this is really exciting. the amount of information gained from just dinosaur bones is amazing, i can't imaging how much this could advance our understanding
Although an amazing discovery, and a leap ahead by an order of magnitude, this is not the first time dinosaur soft-tissue has been discovered.
There was an interesting episode of NOVA Science Now detailing all the advances (to that date) in paleontological soft-tissue discoveries. A good primer before looking into this new discovery.
Just google 'christian dinosaurs' and you will find all you need to know about dinosaurs.
I have collected documented mosaics, cave paintings, bronze seals etc. of dinosaurs made by the ancient man here:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/dinosaur.htm
Dinoglyfs and dinolits from the antiquities they are, really.
Such fresh fossil samples indicate that the geologic time scales are naiiive. Here's another news along the lines:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/TRexin_verisuonet.htm
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I know of 3 Dino mummies in the area. The first video is on the riverbank and Dino Skin.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3003450669139294561
The following is of a 8 foot fish head. The monster must have been over 20 feet long.
http://ia341042.us.archive.org/2/items/fishstone6/fishstone6.jpg
The 3rd one is 2 dolphins that are 10' to 12 feet long. Swimming in sandstone.