The dinosaur that gave up meat

[NeoNSX]

I have two questions: 1) how do they really know if they weren't there, and 2) if Dinosaurs gave up meat, at what stage did they give up smoking?!


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<IMG SRC="http://www.ananova.com/images/web/266744.jpg" align=right width=150>Scientists have discovered a species of dinosaur at the point of evolving from meat-eater to vegetarian. The falcarius utahensis ate plants but its bones show it was still evolving from its carnivorous ancestors.

The species, which lived 125 million years ago in Utah, could help scientists understand how all plant-eating dinosaurs descended from meat-eaters. Bones from hundreds or maybe thousands of these dinosaurs were discovered at a two-acre dig site, south of Green River.

Paleontologist James Kirkland describes the two-legged, feathered creature in Nature journal. It had five inch claws on its outsized hands, and measured 12 feet from its snout to the tip of its long skinny tail.

Falcarius retained the rather horizontal posture and built-for-speed legs of its meat-eating ancestors. But it had already lost the flattened and serrated teeth used to tear meat and acquired the smaller, more densely packed teeth of a vegetarian.

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[hlweyl]

Question 3: If God created man in his own likeness AND dinosaurs existed millions of years before man, why didn't God create the dinosaur to look like himself? What gives?

 

[CDX_NSX]

Question 3: If God created man in his own likeness AND dinosaurs existed millions of years before man, why didn't God create the dinosaur to look like himself? What gives?

Dinosaurs have two eyes, a nose and a mouth; who's to say that they weren't?

 

[NeoNSX]

Question 3: If God created man in his own likeness AND dinosaurs existed millions of years before man, why didn't God create the dinosaur to look like himself? What gives?

But who said they lived millions of years ago? carbon dating? lol... very unreliable. If dinosaurs co-existed at the same time as man, i bet mankind would have gone hunting after them... we always try to conquer the big stuff. Plus the myth of dragons in chinese legends could be based on truth.

I still think our understanding of dinosaurs are largely made up by supposed "experts" who think their educated guesses are right. They find a jaw bone and create an entire evolutionary story about it and preach it like it's factual. If there's one thing i've learned in life is that humans get things wrong ALL THE TIME. ...oh, except for NSXTASY.


First scientists say there was no life on mars... then their might have been... then there definitely couldn't, now they are certain they think there was... ummm.... will it kill somebody to just stand up and say "We don't really know".

 

[steveny]

If dinosaurs co-existed at the same time as man, i bet mankind would have gone hunting after them... we always try to conquer the big stuff. Plus the myth of dragons in chinese legends could be based on truth.

YUM! BBQ for me and 500 of my close friends. If 250 of them get too drunk and have to sleep over in the cave we can have an omlet from one big dinosaur egg.

 

[NSXTech]

Dinosaurs have two eyes, a nose and a mouth; who's to say that they weren't?

Well if that's the case,
AND if all the petroleum pools underground are really Dino Compost,
THEN who really owns all the oil?

 

[NeoNSX]

YUM! BBQ for me and 500 of my close friends. If 250 of them get too drunk and have to sleep over in the cave we can have an omlet from one big dinosaur egg.

hahaha... just be careful one of your friends doesn't leave a dino-sized mess in the bathroom (like that photo you post )

 

[NCC-1701D]

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They’re the modern stone age family.

From the town of Bedrock,
They’re a page right out of history.

Let’s ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet.

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you’ll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabb-a-doo time.
You’ll have a gay old time.