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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 10:54 AM
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Huge new dinosaur species found in Argentina
Source: Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur which roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years ago.

The herbivorous Futalognkosaurus dukei measured between 105 and 112 feet from head to tail.

"It's a new species, it's a new group," Argentine paleontologist Juan Porfiri told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro.

The fossil was 70 percent preserved, which compares to about 10 percent for other giant dinosaur finds in the world.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1536246420071015
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 10:55 AM
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1. Shoot, I thought you meant....ALIVE!!! Still cool tho.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 10:56 AM
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2. Now that would be news!
Yeah, it is still cool though.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 10:57 AM
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3. No, today's only living dinosaurs are Republicans.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:32 AM
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16. What about the chicken?
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 11:34 AM by BrotherBuzz
All birds for that matter.

On edit: I read reptile, not republican.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 12:27 PM
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25. That's ok. This administration is full of reptilian republican chickens.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:08 AM
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10. I always have one of those "Calvin moments" when I see these headlines ...
They should say "dinosaur FOSSIL discovered"! :D
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:01 AM
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4. NOT A FOSSIL! There are christian groups actively searching
the Caves of Africa and South America for the hiding dinosaurs. Because they walked the earth of Adam and Eve, not adam and steve.
the study of so-called Physicks is nothing more than a test of faith, and if you succumb to logic and rational thinking, you lose! Burn in heck, you evil, devil worshiping, science-based person, you!
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:05 AM
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6. It's a trick
planted by Satan! Check carefully for the "Made in Hell" registered trademark.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:03 AM
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5. Gonna create more problems for the Noah's Ark logistics calculations - dang scientists always
confusing things with new data.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:06 AM
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8. 2 bits, 4 bits, Cubits, a dollar
all creationists, stand up and hollar!
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Seedersandleechers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:05 AM
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7. Pictures
Would love to have seen some pics. Will try the google for some....
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:07 AM
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9. delete
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 11:09 AM by buzzard
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 04:02 PM
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34. The small picture at the top of the article in the OP links to a gallery of pics of it n/t
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:17 AM
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11. The devil put those fossils there to test our faith
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 11:17 AM by theHandpuppet
If two of 'em couldn't fit on Noah's ark, they never existed.
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bigworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:19 AM
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12. another article + pic
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3731126
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Seedersandleechers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:37 AM
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17. Thank you for the link.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:24 AM
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13. I think that name could be abbreviated to Funkosaurus...
...and we'd all be happier for it.
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:25 AM
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14. Futalongkosaurus -- ? -- Foot Long What!?
nm
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:16 PM
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28. Farfegnügensaurus was already taken
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booksenkatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:28 AM
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15. My 8-year-old son will want to know...
is it bigger than Argentinasaurus? I can't get the link to open.

I always thought that little boys outgrew the dinosaur thing, but my son still has it going very strong. I guess SOME of these little boys have to grow up and really become paleontologists, though, right?
:D
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:40 AM
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18. Up to 112 feet long, if that helps. n/t
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:42 AM
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20. Try these links
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3731126

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_sc/giant_dinosaur_1

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/15/ap/tech/main3367553.shtml


Hopefully one of these will work better for you.
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booksenkatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:58 AM
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23. Thanks!
These are great.
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jordi_fanclub Donating Member (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:41 AM
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19. Here's a picture...
Thanks to R. Juarez, picked from here: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/456745
And a manuscript received on July 12, 2007; accepted for publication on August 1, 2007
by J.Calvo, J.Porfiri, B. González-Rigaz and A. Kellner about the "animal": http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v79n3/a13v79n3.pdf
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:43 AM
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21. That's awesome.
Thanks!
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:28 PM
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27. Great link. Thank you. n/t
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 11:44 AM
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22. What would happen if Futalognkosaurus fought Ditka?
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 12:00 PM
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24. Of course Ditka would win! DA beearse
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 01:46 PM
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26. cool -- and i can even say ginormous and mean it.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:23 PM
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29. Phooey, No artist's rendering.
I wanna see what it looked like!
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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:44 PM
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31. If you click through all the photos, there is a silhouette of the beast.
Looks like a sauropod.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:30 PM
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30. But most of them are dead.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:45 PM
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32. I Always Want to See a Pic with these Announcements

Artist's restoration of Futalognkosaurus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futalongkosaurus

OK, so it it looks like a lot of the other brontasaurus-like species. But still....
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 03:51 PM
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33. painting of the animal on this page
As best they can reproduce it. Down the page. If you can read Polish please translate. It looks like Polish.

http://www.dinozaury.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=825&Itemid=703if
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