Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever I only have one word for this: AWESOME! Look at the pic..WOW!
I've seen that picture before. And if it is for real it will be THE FIRST dinosaur ever to be found complete. SEcondly. this concerns me. China? I would not trust them an inch...yes. EVEN in the scientific world.
Ummm Fossil was found in Germany. This only mention in the article about the Chiness is this: Which has NOTHING do this specific find.
possum hidin' under the couch `cause Uncle Ferd tol' him dat dinosaur gonna get him... Death of the Dinosaurs: New Proof of Asteroid or Meteor Impact Feb. 7, 2013 - Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts died out suddenly, 66 million years ago. For 30 years the prevailing theory has been that T. rex and its brethren were wiped out by a comet or asteroid crashing in Central America, kicking up so much dust and ash that the Earth cooled for years afterward and made survival impossible.
The theory that the asteroid was the straw that broke the camels back has been around for a while. What statisical studies can be done show although dinosaur biomass was pretty healthy, the diversity had been dwindling for a while. One possible culprit is the Deccan Traps in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps The climate and ecology was going to hell in a hand basket, and probably could have ultimately cleaned out the dinosaurs. The asteroid just appears to have hastened the process
That's a pretty cool find. You can picture just what the little dinosaur looked like 135 million years ago. Here's another study about that asteroid strike:
Long ago, the Chinese thought of dinosaur bones as the proof for the existence of dragons. Just a random factoid. . .
People tend to overuse the word awesome, in this case it might be an understatement. I'm surprised it survived excavation intact, usually these things are incredibly delicate.
It is interesting if you think that the dinos were left to play alone for almost 200m years , they grew and diversified and then what? nature "decided" to remove them ? wasn't synapsids removed in a similar way? Is this the future of our species too ?
This is the same as saying that the synapsids are still around because of mammals , not the same thing.
We can bring back that ancient climate, and resultant high moisture levels, by pumping carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Ive always loved dinasaur stuff since I was a kid, I often wonder how many fossils were destroyed unknowingly over the years.
Comet killed off the dinosaurs... Dinosaur-killing space rock 'was a comet' 22 March 2013 - The space rock that hit Earth 65m years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was probably a speeding comet, US scientists say.
New dinosaur found in Utah... New Horned Dinosaur Unearthed July 18, 2013 > A new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in the high rugged desert of southern Utah. Nasutoceratops - which means big-nosed horn face - lived 76 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period, in what was then a subtropical swampy environment.
