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Newly Discovered: Animal Fossils

This is worth a watch

Attenborough & The Giant Dinosaur

Tells the story of the largest dinosaur yet discovered, a new species of titanosaur, a plant eater living around 100 million years ago, found in Argentina. Virtually the whole skeleton was present, bones cast & reconstruction of the skeleton made. Lots of discoveries along the way. The size of the thing is incredible - estimated to have weighed around 70 tons & thought to be not a fully grown animal!

Available on iplayer for 29 days.
 
hunck said:
This is worth a watch

Attenborough & The Giant Dinosaur

Tells the story of the largest dinosaur yet discovered, a new species of titanosaur, a plant eater living around 100 million years ago, found in Argentina. Virtually the whole skeleton was present, bones cast & reconstruction of the skeleton made. Lots of discoveries along the way. The size of the thing is incredible - estimated to have weighed around 70 tons & thought to be not a fully grown animal!

Available on iplayer for 29 days.
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Quality. Cheers hunck.
 
It worked for me on post #96? Seems many of our furry friends characteristic's haven't changed from my read on it.
 
Jim said:
It worked for me on post #96?
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That's what is perplexing..

I, almost religiously...:cool:.... 'preview' a post and check any URL is working.

For sure, that might have been an exception, however, it worked for your good self?

Post #96 no longer exists in original format and if anyone has a copy of the initial posting, would certainty be interesting for clarification.
 
Jim said:
It worked for me on post #96? Seems many of our furry friends characteristic's haven't changed from my read on it.
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In my teens, one of our working dogs who laboured under the name of Dickens would bounce on the spot if he found a snake in the paddocks. The feed at the time would've been knee high, so Dickens was clearing three feet or so, on the spot.

He would do this a number of times, then pounce, and on the bounce back, he would fling it, the snake, almost with a flick - over his shoulder. Invariably the snake would have a broken spine.

He got the name when, as a pup, he would run/work with his Mum and do this in the middle of a paddock.

We couldn't call him 'Bloody Hell', so Dickens it was, as in - what the dickens is that dog doing now.
 
EnolaGaia said:
The crossed-out link is the tail end of the exact link you posted. Just add "http://www."
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So... the link was inadvertently truncated... Fair enough..!

How though did Jim find it working... :headspinner:

Split the difference with you... don't trouble ourselves... its proverbially, 'trying to unscramble an omelette'...

:(
 
Mungoman said:
In my teens, one of our working dogs who laboured under the name of Dickens would bounce on the spot if he found a snake in the paddocks. The feed at the time would've been knee high, so Dickens was clearing three feet or so, on the spot.

He would do this a number of times, then pounce, and on the bounce back, he would fling it, the snake, almost with a flick - over his shoulder. Invariably the snake would have a broken spine.

He got the name when, as a pup, he would run/work with his Mum and do this in the middle of a paddock.

We couldn't call him 'Bloody Hell', so Dickens it was, as in - what the dickens is that dog doing now.
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Clever dog - he was using the whipcrack effect to kill the snake. Where did he learn that from?
 
Mythopoeika said:
Clever dog - he was using the whipcrack effect to kill the snake. Where did he learn that from?
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I reckon that Animals are habitual Mytho, once they've discovered something that works - they will also adapt another Animals actions. like those monkeys who learnt to wash their grain to seperate the sand out.

I never saw his Mum chase snakes - she was a good working dog and would detour around 'em, or jump over snakes...I reckon Dickens sussed that out himself.

He did eventually die from a bite though.
 
Not to get off topic but I've seen dogs eat snakes, bees and rats. I really wondered about one that made a point to eat as many bees - wasps, etc. as it could. It never seemed to suffer ill effects.
 
Jim said:
Not to get off topic but I've seen dogs eat snakes, bees and rats. I really wondered about one that made a point to eat as many bees - wasps, etc. as it could. It never seemed to suffer ill effects.
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I've got an old fella who eats clay - doesn't seem to do him any harm.

It's funny, I come out some mornings and there's a space in the lawn - divot parked neatly next to it, with a little depression in the soil.
 
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Mungoman said:
I've got an old fella who eats clay - doesn't seem to do him any harm.

It's funny, I come out some mornings and there's a space in the lawn - divot parked neatly next to it, with a little depression in the soil.
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I'm really never surprised at what dogs eat. My dog eats a bit of dirt, as well as leaves, sticks and on occasion pop.
 
A feathered dinosaur tail has been found preserved in amber (back in 2016, so sorry if this has already been posted) ..

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-...r8A89D_LAuQDYjN3e6TBTiPRhI7rM_TbeaFhDThOZlJsg
 
Paleontologists find perfectly preserved dinosaur skin in South Korea

By Brooks Hays
April 9, 2019 at 2:39 PM

April 9 (UPI) -- Paleontologists have discovered a set of dinosaur footprints with preserved skin patterns inside each.

"These are the first tracks ever found where perfect skin impressions cover the entire surface of every track," Martin Lockley, a professor of geology at the University of Colorado, Denver, said in a news release.

https://www.upi.com/amp/Paleontolog...d-dinosaur-skin-in-South-Korea/3011554832473/
 
430 Million-Year-Old Ancient Fossil Uncovered Revealing Underwater "Cthulhu" with 45 Tentacles

By Richelle H. Concio | Apr 10, 2019 10:39 AM EDT

'According to the researchers, its 45 "tube feet" extend to every direction around its body. This trait makes the creature look bigger when under water. The creature uses the 45 tentacles to creep along the ocean floor, snatch up food, and of course, to terrify its predators. Each of the tubular appendages is covered with a sort of protective armor'.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sc...ling-underwater-cthulhu-with-45-tentacles.htm
 
Ancient 'Texas Serengeti' had elephant-like animals, rhinos, alligators and more

Date: April 11, 2019

Source: University of Texas at Austin

During the Great Depression, Texans were put to work as fossil hunters. The workers retrieved tens of thousands of specimens that have been studied in small bits and pieces while stored in the state collections of The University of Texas at Austin for the past 80 years. Now, decades after they were first collected, a researcher has studied and identified an extensive collection of fossils from dig sites near Beeville, Texas, and found that the fauna make up a veritable 'Texas Serengeti.'

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101824.htm
 
Callichimaera perplexa

'Beautiful Nightmare' Crab Sported Lobster Shell, Shrimp Mouth and Soccer Ball Eyes
By Laura Geggel, Associate Editor | April 24, 2019 02:00pm ET

This newly discovered critter — named Callichimaera perplexa, which means "perplexing beautiful chimera" — had a hodgepodge of body parts. That name references the mythical chimera from Greek mythology, which had a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake's tail.

But unlike the mythological version, this bizarre chimera actually existed: It had the mouth of a shrimp, the claws of a modern frog crab, the shell of a lobster and the paddle-like appendages of a sea scorpion, the researchers found. Its eyes were so giant that it would be like a human with soccer ball-size peepers, said study lead researcher Javier Luque, a postdoctoral fellow in paleontology at Yale University and the University of Alberta in Canada.

Full story and artist's impression of the living creature:
https://www.livescience.com/65316-ancient-crab-giant-eyes.html
 
Fossil of new dinosaur discovered in Texas by Hillsboro paleontologist

HILLSBORO, Texas (KWTX) Andre Lujan loves fossils. Spend any amount of time at his museum "Texas Through Time" in Hillsboro and this paleontologist will fill your head with more dinosaur facts than you may be able to retain. And now Lujan has even more to teach museum goers as he recently uncovered the fossil of a brand new dinosaur in Texas.

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/F...s-by-Hillsboro-paleontologist--508882331.html
 
Fossils found in museum drawer in Kenya belong to gigantic carnivore

Paleontologists say mammal was larger than a polar bear

Date: April 18, 2019

Paleontologists at Ohio University have discovered a new species of meat-eating mammal larger than any big cat stalking the world today. Larger than a polar bear, with a skull as large as that of a rhinoceros and enormous piercing canine teeth, this massive carnivore would have been an intimidating part of the eastern African ecosystems occupied by early apes and monkeys.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190418080758.htm
 
I reckon this belongs here.

A new species of lizard has been found in the stomach of a dinosaur.

A team of palaeontologists discovered the new specimen of the volant dromaeosaurid Microraptor zhaoianus with the remains of a nearly complete lizard preserved in its stomach.

The animal is unlike any previously known from the Cretaceous and represents a new species, Indrasaurus wangi, researchers said.

It had teeth unlike any other previously known from the Jehol Biota – a collection of 130-million-year-old fossils from northeastern China

https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...es-discovered-in-dinosaur-stomach-936311.html
 
Maybe this should go inthe Star Wars Thread ...

Thanks to a mass of beautifully preserved fossils, scientists have discovered a peculiar ancient predator: a giant of Cambrian times with the silhouette of a spaceship.

The species’ profile evokes a galactic freighter called the Millennium Falcon from the film Star Wars — a resemblance that helped to inspire the second part of the creature’s scientific name, Cambroraster falcatus. Cambroraster, a distant relative of modern insects, measured up to 30 centimetres long, making it many times bigger than most of its contemporaries, according to an analysis by Joe Moysiuk and Jean-Bernard Caron at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02317-w
 
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