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Rare "Titanosaur" skeleton found 8

Posted by michael from the eats-plants-and-park-visitors dept.
Splatta writes: "Yahoo has this story about the discovery of a complete skeleton of plant eating dinosaur that lived on Madagascar 70 million years ago called the "Titanosaur"."
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  • The Dinosaur Name Game (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    1. Lots of the dinosaurs were big.
    2. Scientists have a strange Freudian fixation on who has found the biggest one.
    3. Scientists will eventually resort to "fucking big dinosaur" as a name, followed by the "really fucking big dinosaur," and the "really, really times a thousand fucking big dinosaur", in Latin, for the names of their new discoveries.

    Gives us the science, spare us the uncreative names.
  • Posted by insane.idoru:

    What I found amazing was that, during the prep-work, they would compare catalogs from previous seasons, and match skull frags with specimens they found two years ago. When he got back from his last In Gall dig, Paul Sereno complained about the difficulties of cataloging thousands of specimens, some (most?) no bigger than a quarter. Maybe this proves that the effort is worth it, no matter how much time it takes.

  • Or is that what they should call the cometh that wiped em all out
  • Do you think if Titanosaur was in Jurassic Park III more people would have gone to see it?

    Only if it stepped on Leonardo DiCaprio.
  • How can you tell a marsupial from a tooth?
  • Do you think if Titanosaur was in Jurassic Park III more people would have gone to see it?

  • Science Museum of Minnesota (Score:3)

    by AnotherSteve ( 447030 ) on Thursday August 02, 2001 @10:55AM (#2176412)

    This is a major find because it is a fairly complete skeleton, including the skull. Previous titanosaur finds have been only fragmentary. Now they can compare the partial remains with something more or less complete, which makes for tasty science. A fine day for paleontology.

    Congrats to the Science Museum of Minnesota [smm.org] and Kristi Curry Rogers [smm.org].

  • I thought JP3 was better then the second Jurassic Park. It was funny, horrific, and all the things that make a good movie. It certainly wasn't the Matrix but it was good. :)
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