Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China 64
thomst writes "Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience reports that a farmer in southern Henan Province in China has dug up the first known ant-eating dinosaur, a half-meter-long theropod (the dinosaur family to which T. Rex belongs), whose fossilized remains were described as 'fairly intact'. The 83- to 89-million-year-old pygmy dinosaur has been named named Xixianykus zhangi by Xig Xu, De-you Wang, Corwin Sullivan, David Hone, Feng-lu Han, Rong-hao Yan, and Fu-ming Du, whose paper on the critter, A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, was published in the March 29 issue of Zootaxa (the abstract is available in PDF format for free, the full article is paywall-protected.)"
Ant eating dinosaur? (Score:2, Funny)
Photo (Score:4, Funny)
Missing from the summary: A photo [google.com] of the ant-eating dinosaur.
Question (Score:3, Funny)
WOW (Score:2, Funny)
A dinosaur named Xixianykus zhangi, discovered by Xig Xu!
Sorry, I don't have anything to add to this discussion. I just wanted to say Xixianykus zhangi and Xig Xu again.
Xixianykus zhangi!
Xig Xu!
Okay, I think I'm done. Now, to find some way to clean all this spittle off my monitor....
Re:Am I the only one that .... (Score:3, Funny)
And In Other News... (Score:3, Funny)
Paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence of a dinosaur that bitches at its mate when he gets home late from work and smelling of beer. The creature apparently has a tongue that's hinged in the middle and designed to wag at both ends simultaneously, and jaw muscles better fitted to an animal three times its size.
I have no intention of attempting to assign a scientific name to this creature.
I want to live.