'Monster' fossil find in Arctic

How disappointing. I was hoping they'd found Nessie or Champ or something.
 
Sounds like a great find. I really want to visit the Burgess Shale or another great fossil site.
 
Zygar said:
How disappointing. I was hoping they'd found Nessie or Champ or something.
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Rriiiiiggghhttt! (he forced out slowly). Wrong place for either - not that it matters as they are fakey stuff to bilk tourists and make money from people easily deluded (or who like watching people who are ).
 
fuelair said:
Rriiiiiggghhttt! (he forced out slowly). Wrong place for either - not that it matters as they are fakey stuff to bilk tourists and make money from people easily deluded (or who like watching people who are ).
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ummm... fuelair... :rolleyes:
 
Not the Loch Ness Monster, but it must be a cousin or nephew or something!http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/05/monster.fossil.reut/index.html

Such pliosaurs are known from remains in countries including Britain and Argentina but no complete skeleton has been found, he said. The skull of the pliosaur -- perhaps a distant relative to Scotland's mythical Loch Ness monster -- was among the biggest on record.
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(bolding mine)

Also, the pliosaur was the cousin of the mythical jawas of Tatooine, and the next-door neighbor of mythical Zeus.

Really, does that bolded phrase make any sense at all in a science article?
 
fuelair said:
Rriiiiiggghhttt! (he forced out slowly). Wrong place for either - not that it matters as they are fakey stuff to bilk tourists and make money from people easily deluded (or who like watching people who are ).
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I am aware on all counts... Maybe I need to work on my sarcasm.
 
I wonder what it would have been like for the dinosaurs to live at the same time as a giant reptillian monster like what was described in this article. This kind of news is always interesting but I don't get what makes this so newsworthy this time.
 
Zygar said:
I am aware on all counts... Maybe I need to work on my sarcasm.
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Sorry - I try to make my sarcasm more obvious just in case. We get a lot of zealous believers in here who would easily have said and meant that. Since you are on the side of truth, justice and the Amuhrican way, welcome in - and apologies for misinterpreting!!!:) :) :)
 
latent aaaack said:
I wonder what it would have been like for the dinosaurs to live at the same time as a giant reptillian monster like what was described in this article. This kind of news is always interesting but I don't get what makes this so newsworthy this time.
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From the link - "Jorn Harald Hurum, co-director of the dig, said he was taken aback by the sheer density of fossil remains in one area.

"You can't walk for more than 100m without finding a skeleton. That's amazing anywhere in the world," he told BBC News."

So, not that they found a few fossils. They found a mess of em ;)
 
latent aaaack said:
I wonder what it would have been like for the dinosaurs to live at the same time as a giant reptillian monster like what was described in this article.
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I don't understand this.

One is a land creature, the other a sea creature. What was it like for a Diplodocus to live at the same time as an Allosaurus? :confused:
 
Well, use your imagination. Two dinos go to a beach at night. Female dino starts swimming naked. [starts Jaws theme]

You know the rest.
 
fuelair said:
Sorry - I try to make my sarcasm more obvious just in case. We get a lot of zealous believers in here who would easily have said and meant that. Since you are on the side of truth, justice and the Amuhrican way, welcome in - and apologies for misinterpreting!!!:) :) :)
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Actually, I was going to use a ;), but they wouldn't let me till I had 15 posts...
 
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