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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:17 AM
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Eggs found inside dinosaur fossil
BBC


A dinosaur that died just before it was about to lay two eggs has been found by an international team of scientists.

The creature, which lived 65-98 million years ago, was discovered in China's Jiangxi Province.

The fossilised remains comprise little more than a pelvis with the shelled eggs still viewable in the body cavity.

Tamaki Sato and colleagues tell Science magazine the dinosaur's reproductive system shares similarities with both primitive reptiles and modern birds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4446769.stm

Sunny-side up or easy-over?
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:18 AM
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1. Why do you hate jesus?
.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:21 AM
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3. ???????????????
don't get your judgement..........
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:24 AM
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6. The World is only 6,000 Years Old
And dinosaurs never existed, heretic.
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:26 AM
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9. I think she means because all good Christians know
that God created the world in 6 days, about 6,000 yrs ago.
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:51 AM
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19. Actually She (God) created the world yesterday
Complete with people and false memories.
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SweetLeftFoot Donating Member (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:24 AM
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5. Actually
God planted the fossils there sometime late on the fourth day. It's got to do with scientician stuff that we shouldn't bother our pretty little heads with. Just enlist and/or donate.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:27 AM
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10. Jesus had a pet dinosaur...named Larry
It's in the Bible..(of course those were the pages that got wet in the flood, and the ink ran :(
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:27 AM
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11. So WTF has "jesus" to do with it????
???
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:33 AM
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13. Any one who suggests the earth is billions of yrs old
hates Jesus, don't you know ? That's what the fundies say.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:34 AM
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14. Ok. That must be it.
??
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:46 AM
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18. Sorry for the confusion
it was a joke.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:54 AM
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20. Phew! Thought for one moment I was gonna have to expound
on why it was John the Baptist who did the cross number and how the Cult of the Snake - ie the Catholic Church - has made a huge $$$$$$$$$$$* profit covering this up for the last 2000 years or so...


* can't find keyboard symbol for shekels here...
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:20 AM
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2. It Was Only Laying Two Eggs?
Somehow I thought of dinosaurs as laying a whole brood all at once, like sea turtles. I guess it depends on the species.

I'm just amazed at what keeps coming out of the ground. So many finds. A lot of them in China nowdays.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:25 AM
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7. Such a small brood lends itself to a lot of interpretation
For example, a small brood suggests fewer young, which suggests more care is taken with the young.

If one were to pick up the speculative ball and run with it, this would seem to mesh with other theories that dinosaurs may have lived in small groups -- perhaps even social groups. (IIRC, they've found clusters of fossils that suggest groups of some dinosaurs lived together).
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SweetLeftFoot Donating Member (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:30 AM
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12. Dinosaurs
It's becoming more and more obvious that dinosaurs were very birdlike - in physical structure, appearance and probably, by extension, behaviour too.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 11:00 AM
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21. They recently found tissue in a dinosaur fossil
Didn't they say the structure it was very close to modern bird tissue?
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:38 AM
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15. I Was Thinking Predator
Carnivorous species tend to have fewer offspring, no?
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:42 AM
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17. Mammalian predators do, but not always reptilian ones
I think alligators lay a lot of eggs (over 20 at at time), for example.
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jukes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:23 AM
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4. uh-uh!
nope! those are LEVIATHAN eggs, created only 6K years ago by yahweh hisdamself!

any other interpretation is only a THEORY!
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:25 AM
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8. Whole lotta sarcasm in GD today...
Thanks again for the science stuff emad.

:)
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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 10:39 AM
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16. Do the primitive reptiles bear an uncanny resemblance to Tom Delay?
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 11:01 AM
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22. I'd be the first one in line to buy ticeks to Jurassic Park
:)
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