4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx 140
Wired reports on a find described September 24 in a note at Nature and the day after at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: a dinosaur fossil bearing true feathers on four limbs. The fossil was discovered in northeastern China, in strata believed to have been deposited between 151 million and 161 million years ago. If that estimate is correct, the newly discovered Anchiornis huxleyi is at least one million years older than the believed age of the more famous winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
Well then (Score:1, Funny)
We're all doomed if they manage to bring these birds back to life in the future. This is almost as bad as flying mantas.
Fake (Score:1, Funny)
Hoo Hum... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's next? (Score:4, Funny)
Followed by an N-Winged pseudo-bird
four wings? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fake (Score:4, Funny)
And I've got the primative writing skills to prove it!
Re:Hoo Hum... (Score:3, Funny)
Wake up! [stallman.org]
Re:One massive problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fake (Score:2, Funny)
Kind Regards,
Cthulhu.
Re:What's next? (Score:4, Funny)
I summon; Mega-Ultra-Chicken.
Re:PBS covered this... (Score:5, Funny)
hey back off, on an evolutionary time scale, that's lightning fast.
Gilette Mach 5 Uber-Bird (Score:5, Funny)
"Fuck it, we're going to five wings."
all you smarty pants scientists (Score:3, Funny)
did you ever think why these so-called missing links are dead and buried in the ground? god killed them, that's why. doesn't that teach you anything? THEY AREN'T HERE ANYMORE. don't you wonder why that is and why you shouldn't dig this stuff up? god killed them fair and square. who gives you the right to mess around with god's intention?
Re:PBS covered this... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? The story comes 151 million years after the fact! And that wasn't even the release date!
Re:What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
I won't be happy until I get my p-winged quantum bird.
Nutjobs out in force (Score:5, Funny)
The really depressing thing is the article comments. It seems the Creationists found out about the article, and are pinging the bejeezus out of it in the comments.
My personal favorite bit of ignorance starts like this:
am nor a scientist or even an academic of any kind but as I understand it and please tell me if I am wrong but for a Theory to become fact it has to ...
*raaaaaaaaz*! Thanks for playing.
hook, line, and sinker (Score:2, Funny)
Loving Troll Father, we thank you for this cornucopia of naivete,
And for all your blessings of the easily duped to us.
Lord Troll Jesus, come and be our guest,
And take your place at this trollish table of bounty.
Holy Troll Spirit, as the trolled fool feeds our trollish pride,
So we pray you would nourish our trollish souls. Amen.
so beeth the prayer of the troll upon a successful catch
Re:Nutjobs out in force (Score:1, Funny)
...If I bread these two penguins in a big deep hole...
Isn't it obvious? God would grant them flight, and we would get a new species.
But how would they fly with those seven herbs and spices all over them?
Re:Nutjobs out in force (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't it obvious? God would grant them flight, and we would get a new species.
Too late; it's already happened [youtube.com].
[Note the March 31, 2008 date on the video. ;-]