Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 109
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."
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I kept thinking of Muppets like ABC's Dinosaurs.
And for today's news by Howard Handupme.
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Pics or it didn't happen.
No seriously, where's the picture of the actual skull? I want to see it.
(Even more seriously though, the picture of the skull itself can be found here [msn.com])
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Would you look at the size of that boy's head?
It's a virtual planetoid! It's like sputnik!
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Horns or GTFO?
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"Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur"
I was really disappointed when I realized what they meant by "horniest"
Me too. I thought they'd discovered Austin Powers!
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Nope, for some reason (probably the "fucking" tag) I was still thinking about sex. Even after I read it had 15 horns, I was waiting until the summary said "and a 9 foot penis" or some such.
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Maybe there are others like us. I should start a website.
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Who didn't start jerking off to Bakker's books? (Score:2)
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I'll reply instead of karma slashing you.
You have got to be joke-fishing here, except AC fell for it, and then you ruined your own joke replying to AC.
What should have happened was +1 Funny.
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I'm gonna call semi-whoosh. Not that you didn't get it, but that you feel compelled to explain it, and don't seem to get that everyone else also got it. Like a child who haughtily proclaims to a group of adults that no, the Tooth Fairy is not real, it's just make-believe, and everyone smiles and says, "Oh, really?"
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I also fantasize about dinosaurs fucking. Maybe there are others like us. I should start a website.
Rule 34 [google.com]
No exceptions!
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Huh. I for one finally understand what The Who meant in You Better You Bet. [ebaumsworld.com]
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The Tranny saw us Sex?
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What is very interesting is to read the original scientific article. I've been reading this site all day. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012292
Look at some of the photos of the skulls. This is one of the most unusual animal discoveries I have ever seen. Really strange. What would that frilly part even look like in real life, all bent downwards? What biological or evolutionary process would even cause that? This is one weird dinosaur.
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"Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur" I was really disappointed when I realized what they meant by "horniest"
Well, you know what they say about Dinosaur's with big horns...
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That man must give some seriously good blowjobs, for Taco to keep him on.
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It is quite obvious the title was totally intended to use double entendre.
Ancient Horny and Bone-headed Utah Resident Found! (Score:2)
Now that would have been a title.
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No kidding. I thought maybe paleontologists discovered ME!
Whew.
'scuse me while I go try and get laid....
I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
am glad that thing is extinct.
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For the love of God! (Score:2)
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>>>Slashdot still isn't sexy
Maybe somebody could submit this article: Top 10 Horniest Countries http://www.askmen.com/top_10/travel/top-10-horniest-countries_10.html [askmen.com]
No.10 - Mexico :-(
No. 9 - Switzerland
No. 8 - Spain
No. 7 - Malaysia
No. 6 - Italy
No. 5 - Poland
No. 4 - China
No. 3 - Russia
No. 2 - Brazil
No. 1 - Greece (where farming is king and the sheep are scared) - Note that Europe made this list 6 times, and North America not at all. Bunch'a prudes.
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Or maybe everyone in North America is getting some, and don't have to lie about it? After all, you're not going to be hungy if you just ate a 120 ounce steak [seriouseats.com].
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Look at this guy - the first on the list [ifoce.com]. He weighs 132 pounds,
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Was Mexico kicked out for not being white enough or something?
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Note that Europe made this list 6 times, and North America not at all. Bunch'a prudes. :-(
Mexico is in North America.
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Yes; like a cheap whore, the average Slashdot editor will accept just about any sentence in a submission, no matter how mangled. Doesn't Taco understand the needs of his audience. Nothing says "sexy" to the average Grammar-Trooper like a sultry "World's most Horny" in a headline.
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Fry: No thanks, I only read slashdot stories with the title of "World's Blankiest Blank."
Network guy: How about "World's Horniest Dinosaur?"
Fry: That'll do.
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Slashdot still isn't sexy :(
News for, um... what was that slogan again?
Early form of Wireless? (Score:3, Interesting)
There were elephants with four tusks, where the extra tusks offered virtually no advantage as far as anyone can tell. The horns on a dinosaur were of dubious defensive or offensive value and may well have been to improve cooling (greater surface area to radiate from) or for display. It would have made dealing with thick vegetation a problem - more ways to get tangled up. Ok, so if we go with improving cooling, in order to provide any serious advantage there has to be a significant source of heat that the triceratops did not face. Perhaps this dinosaur moved faster, or was more active in general.
Ever since paleontologists discovered proteins inside dino bones and even found a fossil that partially preserved the colour of the skin, the understanding of dino lives has changed dramatically.
Paleontology to paleo-organic-chemistry (Score:3, Interesting)
I can only imagine what the reaction must have been when the team accidentally broke that T. rex femur -- probably going from "oh, shit" when it first broke, and then to a very different sort of "oh, shit!" when they realized it still had the marrow in it [google.com].
Cheers,
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Oh yeah. And before anyone points out that people have suggested that the protein was contamination, there was enough to see things that looked suspiciously like blood vessels and the protein resembled what would be found in chicken bones - which the hollow T. Rex bone strongly resembled. Similar results were apparently found in other T. Rex bones, but owing to the extreme rarity of T. Rex fossils in the first place, never mind the extreme reluctance of museums to go sawing their prize pieces in half, it's
The Onion (Score:2, Funny)
Nicknamed (Score:1)
That IS horny! (Score:2, Funny)
First the BBC, now Slashdot (Score:5, Interesting)
Jee, is everyone writing on the web 13 years old ?
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... is everyone writing on the web 13 years old?
No. Some are dogs [wikipedia.org].
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Somewhere in England.. (Score:4, Insightful)
The Weekly World News Called (Score:5, Funny)
Weekly World News called. They want their headline back.
Better link to article (Score:3, Informative)
Matches the age of the stories on CNN, too (Score:2)
"Salt Lake City, hello..."
Must be a dietary thing (Score:2)
Maybe it's just that the world's horniest dinosaur prefers to prey on Mormon girls. That must be it.
No no no... (Score:5, Funny)
I believe this particular one will be called the "hefnersaurus"
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the "hefnersaurus"
likes hot food and Chinese cars.
"Horn"iest? (Score:2)
Is it just me, or does that illustration look like the world's Roy Horniest dinosaur?
Jesse "The Body" Ventura? (Score:1)
Original story is "Amazing Horned Dinosaurs" (Score:1)
The correct term is "most horned", not "horniest" (Score:2)
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I take all the fun out of stuff.
No, you're just missing the point. It may be hard, but don't let the puns get a rise out of you. They'll never erect a statue in honor of you horning in on the conversation.
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Title Fail (Score:2, Funny)
Is it just me or... (Score:1)
ha! (Score:1)
oh gee (Score:2)
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They're BLUE now? (Score:1)
Ever since Walking With Dinosaurs, things have gotten a bit silly. Creative licence should be revoked at times. There's no way they can know what skin colour these guys had.
Maybe dinosaurs died out because all the elaborate colours and plumage made them all easy prey for each other. The ones left over starved. Makes sense, let's go with that.
Palintologists (Score:1, Troll)
Do they mean all of Fox News' ancient viewers who order Viagra between segments when McCain's VP candidate is on?
Location (Score:1)
That's no dinosaur... (Score:2)
That's a Chernobyl chicken!
Mixed head (Score:1)
They should better double check if it's really it's own head. They have already made such a mistake with brontosaurs.
What was it called? (Score:1)
Reallyfuckingsoreass?
Screw the rocks! What a GREAT Publication Site! (Score:3, Insightful)
Now THAT site is what scientific publications should be all about. No steenking membership. No steenking expensive annual fees.
You go there, you look around, you get to read abstracts _and_ the full damned paper (with ALL the images, hooray!). Great stuff.
Every scientific publication (or at least the ones being funded by OUR tax dollars) should work that way!
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Seinfeld Dinosaur (Score:1)