New Dinosaur 'Siats Meekerorum' Discovered In Utah 33
minty3 writes with word of the discovery of a new carnivorous dinosaur from a time when T-Rex's ancestors were the size of small dogs "Named Siats meekerorum, after the man-eating monster from the Ute tribal legend, the fossil belongs to a species of giant meat eaters known as carcharodontosaurs and is the second one discovered in North America. 'This thing is gigantic,' Lindsay Zanno, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University, who discovered the species, said. 'There's simply nothing even close in this ecosystem to the size of this animal that could've been interpreted as an apex predator.'"
Leaps of Imagination (Score:5, Interesting)
It always amazes me, the staggering conclusions not just the media but the scientists themselves draw from such sketchy evidence.
Three-clawed, they say (as opposed to T-Rex's two) .. but with NO, repeat, NO hand bones. Not a trace of the head: do we even KNOW it's a carnivore?
Yeah, I know .. if you want to get published, you have to use a little imagination. Still ...
I submit that Siats probably would enjoy a nice tea and biscuit snack if he were still around.