Long arms, bad posture
Looks like one of my profs from university!
The secrets of a long-armed, “totally bizarre” dinosaur have finally been plumbed after bone-boffins unearthed a much fuller specimen of the odd creature. Deinocheirus mirificus Since 1965, when scientists in Mongolia dug up two huge dino forearms measuring 2.4m, baffled boffins have wondered what kind of giant lizard they …
Based on the current number of reptilian species and the time scales involved, I would be surprised to find that there are not at least hundreds of thousands of Dinosaur species.
“The study of this specimen has shown that even in dinosaurs like Deinocheirus, an animal that has been known for almost half a century, we can still learn surprising things about their anatomy,” said Currie.
Having had the arms for almost 50 years, discovering more of the skeleton told them something new. Is this realy a surprise?
Not at all surprising. Keep looking and the darnedest things come up.
Frankly, I've thought of flogging a book on a dinosaur culture that was similar to ours, but died off and the concrete, steel and even plastics broke down and left the cemeteries dissolved over the millions of years since their passing.
If anyone wishes to take that notion up, good luck. Do badly, I'll cite this as copyright and institute legal action that leaves you homeless. Do a grand job, I'll be eternally thankful and own you a major favor.
The favor system has worked out quite well for me and participants of said system.
I just get a lot vindictive over those who turns a sows ear into a pigs breakfast.
"Frankly, I've thought of flogging a book on a dinosaur culture that was similar to ours, but died off and the concrete, steel and even plastics broke down and left the cemeteries dissolved over the millions of years since their passing."
Been done. Sort of. Harry Harrison beat you to it. Although considering how long we humans have been around and we are already doing genetic engineering, maybe there was a dinosaur civilisation experimenting way back then. They had way longer than we've had so far.
Given that the "incomplete skeleton" had been severely messed-around with by poachers, can they be sure that all the different bits are really from the same individual? Could the reason for the "ornithomimid-like arms, tyrannosaurid-like legs, Spinosaurus-like vertebral spines, sauropod-like hips, hadrosaur-like duckbill, foot-hooves" actually be that there were bones from parts of several different types of dino all mixed together?