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New Dinosaurs Found in Antarctica 31

Posted by michael from the land-of-the-lost dept.
WorkEmail writes "Two new species of dinosaur, one a quick-moving meat-eater and the other a giant plant-eater, have been discovered in Antarctica, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. The 70 million-year-old fossils of the carnivore would have rested for millenniums at the bottom of an Antarctic sea, while remains of the 100-foot-long (30 meter) herbivore were found on the top of a mountain."
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  • Don't you mean (Score:5, Funny)

    by sinergy ( 88242 ) on Friday February 27, 2004 @06:56PM (#8413070) Homepage
    "Jesus Horses?"

    • Re:Don't you mean (Score:3, Informative)

      by sinergy ( 88242 )
      Sorry, but this isn't off-topic. This was a joke on this past week's Saturday Night Live about the banning of the word "evolution" in Georgia.

  • Still on antarctic (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27, 2004 @06:59PM (#8413088)

    "For whatever reason, they were still hanging out on the Antarctic continent," Case said in a statement.

    Maybe they just wanted to get away from the hustle-and-bustle of everyday Jurassic life?

  • Original Article... (Score:5, Informative)

    by authenticgeek ( 706168 ) on Friday February 27, 2004 @06:59PM (#8413090) Homepage
    I don't remember hearing about one of these since I was younger - I suppose my focus has shifted since then :) It still excites me nonetheless.

    Anyway, the original National Science Foundation article can be found here [nsf.gov] and contains a little more info and some better pictures.

  • I was hoping for.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by webbroberts ( 249675 ) on Friday February 27, 2004 @07:07PM (#8413171)
    I was hoping for Old Ones and Shoggoths.

  • Spiffy! (Score:4, Funny)

    by Gothic_Walrus ( 692125 ) on Friday February 27, 2004 @07:08PM (#8413182) Journal
    Gentlemen, we have a breakthrough...

    The first known species of dinosaurs that could have survived the Ice Age!

    • Disclaimer: That was a joke. I'm not really that stupid...

    • Re:Spiffy! (Score:3, Informative)

      by Kethinov ( 636034 )
      Sorry, no. Star Trek Voyager showed us the Voth. A species which descended from dinosaurs and evolved into a space faring nomadic civilization. They left Earth before the ice age which makes THEM the first known species of dinosaurs to have survive the ice age...

  • I can see why the damn thing is extinct (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27, 2004 @07:13PM (#8413228)
    It apparently had to run on its side snapping at the ankles of its prey.
    • I love that picture also. Doesn't it look like a threatening carnivorous predator? The other thing I wonder when they render pictureas of dinosaurs is....who gets to decide what color they think it was? "It was probably brown Bob!" "No way Jim, not all brown, it probably had white under it's chin and some black specks on it's chest!" Ha Ha HA.

  • Scientists Confirm *saurs are Dead (Score:5, Funny)

    by GigsVT ( 208848 ) on Friday February 27, 2004 @08:12PM (#8413610) Journal
    It is official; Scientists confirm: *saurs are dead

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *saur community when scientists confirmed that *saur population has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 0 percent of all animals. Coming on the heels of a recent MIT survey which plainly states that *saurs have lost more population, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *saurs are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the census of all animals.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *saurs's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *saurs face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *saurs because *saurs are dead. Things are looking very bad for *saurs.

    Stegosaurus is the most dead of them all, having lost 100% of its core breeding population. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time stegosaurus breeders Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Stegosaurus is dead.

    Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *saurs are dead.

    Fact: *saurs are dead

  • This makes me happy. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Gewis ( 717661 )
    This makes me happy. I knew there were still paleontological digs and studies going on around the world, but I didn't know any were in Antarctica. (For those of you who don't know, it's COLD there.) It doesn't sound like these new discoveries have anything anatomical to make them significant otherwise, but the fact that paleotology found a useful place to do research in Antarctica bares out a good reminder that there's still a lot of stuff we don't know, even in fields unrelated to particle physics, nano
  • the use of the word milleniums in this article? Milleniums?

  • Religious dinos? (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by MachDelta ( 704883 )
    So does this mean they've found the dinosaur equivalent of Mohammed? And I wonder - was that carnivore at the bottom of the sea an egyptian?

    Sorry, i've got Passion of the Christ on my mind. :P

  • Antarctica and Jurassic Park (Score:5, Interesting)

    by feidaykin ( 158035 ) on Saturday February 28, 2004 @09:35AM (#8416281) Journal
    First, let me say that this discovery adds even more examples to the fact that Antarctica is a science sweet spot. From ancient fossils to some of the lowest natural temperatures on terra firma, Antarctica is a truly awesome place. It's really one of the last frontier's on the planet, second to perhaps the deepest oceans and the interior of the Earth.

    Next, I'd like to admit that I'm a huge fan of dinosaurs. Anyone else here credit an interest in dinosaurs to the original 1993 Jurassic Park movie? This was actually the first movie I ever saw in a theater, and it's hard to believe that come July that will be 11 years ago.

    When I saw the movie, I became obsessed with everything dinosaur. It shaped my entire future by also sparking a greater interest in science in general. So I'm basically the man I am today thanks to Jurassic Park. Which makes a good scapegoat for when people have a problem with me. ;)

    And for a good laugh be sure to check out the Jurassic Park game for the SNES. When you go inside buildings it turns into a weird FPS mode that looks like absolute ass. [mobygames.com] (That'd be a perfect spot for a goatse link, damn, I should be a troll...)

    • Re:Antarctica and Jurassic Park (Score:4, Interesting)

      by WorkEmail ( 707052 ) on Saturday February 28, 2004 @02:59PM (#8417925)
      I have read other places that there is deposits of water deep below the surface of Antarctica. Huge pockets of water surrounded by Ice that are as big as some of the great lakes they imagine. And whatever life, if any, is in them, has been there existing for possibly millions of years isolated from everything. They had huge debates about wether or not to eventually drill down and tap into these vast pockets of water for fear of what they may contain. Has anyone else read anything about that?
  • Too bad I missed this story the first time around.

    My son is 5, and I have strong fears that he's going to go in to the field of Paleontology. Rather than being a quasi-hip nerd like his old man (with a BSEE), he's looking to don the full Nerd jacket.

    I told him about these dinosaurs last week, he became very excited and wanted to know all about them. All he reads - all he wants as bedtime stories - all he plays with - are Dinosaurs. I've learned far more about the dinosaurs from helping him study than was ev

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