Two New (Feathered) Dinosaurs Discovered

Bithy writes: "Thought you might find this to be interesting, especially on the heels of Jurassic Park 3. These beasts look like something out of an artist's imagination, especially the sloth-like herbivore." Apparently, this is the first time that that these "sloth-clawed" dinosaurs have been found in North America.

Pangee?

[Frederic54]

Does the unique continent Pangee broke after or before the end of dinosaurs?
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one big land

[spacefem]

Are you talking about Pangaea? Tricky, that started breaking up about 220 million years ago, the dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago, although dinosaurs were found that lived 200 million years ago (eg. Cryolophosaurus) so they're close (relatively speaking, of course)

Feathers on baby lizzards...

[ShaneX]

The way I understand it, They had sorts of feathers to keep warm after hatching to keep them warm (another 'feather in the cap' so to speak, of those who say they were warm blooded)

Jurassic Park

[DiSKiLLeR]

You know what would be cool?

If we made like, a Jurassic Park kind of thing using recovered DNA. (please don't go on about how the movies sucked -- i know they did -- do yourself a favour, and read Jurassic Park and The Lost World in dead tree form, they are real real good).

Has anyone recovered any decent amount of dinosaur DNA? I'm just wondering. Theres been alot of stories on slashdot over the past year or so about bringing back extinct animals, like the Tasmanian Tiger (look it up on slashdot), and various others in Australia, New Zealand, and other places in the world. (Then again, cloning doesn't seem to work well, according to a slashdot story just a week ago).

As for where to put these dinosaurs.... *evilish grin*, why not put them on a terraformed mars? Or some other planet. We could watch the dinosaurs evolve and spread over an entire planet, and not affect them in any way but by simply watching them from above. (This is starting to sound like a computer game or something..) Of course Mars isn't suitable atm, and Venus too hot.. but ahh wells.

D.