05-12-2017, 09:02 AM
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First Line Centre
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Location: Calgary
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NAT GEO: The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada
Pretty cool!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...sil-discovery/
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The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes. Fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its sole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins at my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me later. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”
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Some 110 million years ago, this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea. The dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its skull still bears tile-like plates and a gray patina of fossilized skins.
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Huge Picture
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05-12-2017, 09:05 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
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05-12-2017, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Wow it's amazing how preserved that is. If one could ever go back in time it would be pretty cool to see what it was like when these giant reptiles ruled the earth.
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05-12-2017, 10:11 AM
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Incredible photographs. What a find.
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05-12-2017, 10:21 AM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Wow it's amazing how preserved that is. If one could ever go back in time it would be pretty cool to see what it was like when these giant reptiles ruled the earth.
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Yeah and get a personal tour of a T-Rex's digestive system.
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05-12-2017, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah and get a personal tour of a T-Rex's digestive system.
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05-12-2017, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah and get a personal tour of a T-Rex's digestive system.
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I'm no historian but I believe T-Rex's existed near the tail end of the Dinosaur era so you could probably avoid them easy enough although there were plenty of other large predators. It's crazy that humans are just a blip on the radar of the Earth's existence compared to dinosaurs who were around for millions of years.
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05-12-2017, 12:14 PM
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Yeah, I was reading before that mammals would have most likely been able to avoid large predators like T-rexes. We would have been an insignificant prey for them.
Not that there weren't smaller predators that our mammal ancestors wouldn't have had to worry about though.
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05-12-2017, 02:42 PM
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First Line Centre
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I just came in to post this. This is so cool, I feel like I'm 12 again.
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05-12-2017, 02:52 PM
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Aside from the content being cool, damn, that's just a really well written piece.
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05-12-2017, 11:12 PM
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My 2.5 year old absolutely loves dinosaurs right now and we're taking him to Tyrell at some point this summer. I can't wait to see this in person.
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