One of the most complete dinosaur
mummies ever found is revealing
secrets locked away for millions of
years, bringing researchers as close
as they will ever get to touching a
live dino.
The fossilized duckbilled hadrosaur is
so well preserved that scientists have been
able to calculate its muscle mass and learn
that it was more muscular than thought,
probably giving it the ability to outrun
predators such as T. rex.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_sc/dinosaur_mummy
11 comments:
Alright Lads if you would please
turn to page 147 of Dr Grordbort's guide to all things saurian. Make
the appropriate changes.
***Remember to change your weapons setting accordingly!
Always the practical one aren't you Bill? ;-)
Don M said...
Always the practical one aren't you Bill? ;-)
Someone has to think of these things ;-P
This might account for the dissappearance of 'Strangely' Browne, who always did underestimate the speed of some of these beasties...
Settings recalibrated, good call Bill!
Tas said...Settings recalibrated, good call Bill!
He was a Command Sergeant Major,
Armor branch....weapon setting are kind of his thing....)
Tas said...
This might account for the dissappearance of 'Strangely' Browne, who always did underestimate the speed of some of these beasties...
Understandable that, as they say
pioneers take the arrows...)
***From the report:
"Oh, the skin is wonderful," paleontologist Phillip Manning of Manchester University in England rhapsodized, admitting to a "glazed look in my eye."
"It's unbelievable when you look at it for the first time," he said in a telephone interview. "There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking."
Manning said there is a pattern of banding to the larger and smaller scales on the skin. Because it has been fossilized researchers do not know the skin color. Looking at it in monochrome shows a striped pattern.
He notes that in modern reptiles, such a pattern is often associated with color change.
***My word, that beasties "pelt"
will make for a rather fetching
display on the loge wall, what...
La Coloniale said...
Understandable that, as they say
pioneers take the arrows...)
Quite...
Joe said...
***My word, that beasties "pelt"
will make for a rather fetching
display on the loge wall, what...
Mount it right next to the
Wooly Mammoth head...)
***My word, that beasties "pelt"
will make for a rather fetching
display on the loge wall, what...
A rather splendid cape with matching hat comes to mind too!
Tas said...
A rather splendid cape with matching hat comes to mind too!
That's it, your our official
dandy....)
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