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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 12:35 PM
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ARMA MORTAL - Giant dinosaur claws from Argentina
Descubren un dinosaurio con garras de 70 cm



Es el animal carnívoro de extremidades más grandes
# Vivió hace 90 millones de años en lo que hoy es Neuquén
# El primer ejemplar fósil fue encontrado en 1996 en la Sierra de Portezuelo
# Ahora, nuevos hallazgos reformulan su anatomía

Tenía manos grandes, grandes y filosas. De un sólo zarpazo podría haber partido en dos a una persona. Pero su dieta era otra: dinosaurios de 30 metros de largo y 50 toneladas, a los que desgarraba y despedazaba con garras de 70 centímetros armadas, cada una de ellas, con tres temibles uñas en forma de cimitarra.

"Las garras eran su arma mortal", dijo a LA NACION Fernando Novas, el paleontólogo argentino que descubrió y puso nombre al Megaraptor namunhuiquii . Este dinosaurio que habitó hace 90 millones de años lo que hoy es la provincia de Neuquén, ostenta el privilegio de ser considerado el dinosaurio carnívoro de garras más grandes.

Pero si bien el primer ejemplar fósil fue descubierto en 1996 en la Sierra del Portezuelo, a 120 kilómetros al oeste de la ciudad de Neuquén, es el reciente hallazgo de los restos de otros tres ejemplares en la costa norte del lago Los Barreales (90 kilómetros al noroeste de esa ciudad) el que le confiere al megarraptor el mencionado título.

More at La Nacion
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Soloflecks Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 12:39 PM
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1. That animal was definitely not
a nail biter. I'm going to brush up on my Spanish and see what else it says about him. :wow:
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 12:46 PM
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3. Fucking huge claws man. errr, Raptors.
Damn, we sure could use a few of them Pub eating Dinos
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 12:45 PM
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2. Mas grande!
Some very intersting discoveries have been coming out of the Argnetinian badlands in recent years....
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 01:03 PM
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4. Fascinating!
Which makes me once again wonder how T. rex was living with thos dinky little forearms and flat feet.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 04:25 PM
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8. T rex's feet weren't any flatter than any other dinosaurs
Unless you're refering to the lack of the killing claw in Deinonychosaurs....

In any case, T rex lived a-ok because all of its armiments were moved to its head :-)
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 04:42 PM
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9. Actually, yes I was refering to the claws
and one of the popular questions about whether or not T. rex was a scavenger, an ambush hunter or a stalking hunter.

I have no doubt at all _that_ T. rex lived a-ok, just curious about _how_ T. rex lived so a-ok.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 02:14 PM
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5. wow, cool! One of Dick Cheney's ancestors!
The sharp, grasping talons are diagnostic, I'd say.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 04:23 PM
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7. LOL not even, Dick's closer to flatworms than he is to Megaraptor
:-)
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 04:46 PM
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10. Now you've gone an insulted the animals I study, I am pissed.
To think that you would compare Dick Cheney to any of the lovely beasts. Even the hermaphroditic parasitic forms suffer from such a comparison.

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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 05:10 PM
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11. LOL
So are they lophotrochozoans?

Well, ok, let's just say Dick's a....... Dick's a slime mold (and I know now the mycologists will come on here a yellin... :-) ).
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 02:33 PM
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6. Declaw THAT, *sucker*..!
holy guacamole!
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