A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.
Writing in Science magazine, the palaeontologists make some broad statements about gender differences in pterosaurs, including the observation that only males sported a head-crest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12242596
Pterosaurs, also sometimes referred to as pterodactyls
Somewhere, Pterodactyl Handler has a hard on.
Pray none of the juicy stuff is left or some moron will try to make one.
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 23, 2011, 05:19:43 PM
Pray none of the juicy stuff is left or some moron will try to make one.
(http://www.legalmoviesdownloads.com/still-frames-movie-pictures/jurassic-park/jurassic-park-12-jeff-goldblum-sam-neill-dr-ian-malcolm-dr-alan-grant.jpg)
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 23, 2011, 05:19:43 PM
Pray none of the juicy stuff is left or some moron will try to make one.
Why not?
Kentucky Fried Pterodactyl
Looking back at the movies, for the most part it was only the Raptors and maybe trex that caused any problems for the humans
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A tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each forelimb.
Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot and was found in sediments between 84 and 75 million years old.
The dinosaur belongs to a sub-branch of the theropods, the dinosaur group which includes T.rex and Velociraptor, and which gave rise to modern birds.
Details are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12262349
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50921000/jpg/_50921881_linhenychus_csotonyi_rev1000pixels.jpg)
Another cool find.
Why are all the good findings coming from China?
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 25, 2011, 04:41:46 PM
Why are all the good findings coming from China?
Big land area, with a lot of geological traits that are likely to yield fossils (i.e. sedimentary deposits).
Also, dinosaurs love Communism. Which is why they're extinct.
Quote from: Cainad on January 25, 2011, 05:01:49 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 25, 2011, 04:41:46 PM
Why are all the good findings coming from China?
Big land area, with a lot of geological traits that are likely to yield fossils (i.e. sedimentary deposits).
Also, dinosaurs love Communism. Which is why they're extinct.
:lulz:
Quote from: Cainad on January 25, 2011, 05:01:49 PM
dinosaurs love Communism. Which is why they're extinct.
Newsfeed?
Quote from: Able on January 24, 2011, 02:24:17 PM
Looking back at the movies, for the most part it was only the Raptors and maybe trex that caused any problems for the humans
-><-
Read the books. The Pterodactyls were ASSHOLES.
You also forgot the Spitter.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B6qxl61VThw/Snhal7t9P-I/AAAAAAAAArE/8iN8T-FkiRg/s400/spitter+on+hill+web.jpg)
I always thought he was adorable.
Quote from: Able on January 24, 2011, 02:24:17 PM
Looking back at the movies, for the most part it was only the Raptors and maybe trex that caused any problems for the humans
-><-
ooooooo really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iea5Bw1ys1Q
Good to see the concept art including the feathers more often.
Jurassic Park would have been awesome if the dinos where feathered like they should have been.
Quote from: Telarus on January 25, 2011, 06:17:37 PM
Good to see the concept art including the feathers more often.
Jurassic Park would have been awesome if the dinos where feathered like they should have been.
Mmm, Archaeopteryx.
I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was little, even before Jurassic Park came out.
As such I totally approve of cloning any and all dinosaurs possible, and letting them run rampant. It's not like anyone will miss San Diego that much anyway...
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2011, 10:08:14 AM
I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was little, even before Jurassic Park came out.
As such I totally approve of cloning any and all dinosaurs possible, and letting them run rampant. It's not like anyone will miss San Diego that much anyway...
I agree. And this will make being a Mammoth cowboy so much more FUN! I mean, we'd have pteradactyl eggs for breakfast, and ride triceratops out on the range, and fight off velociraptor-riding banditos in the afternoon! That would be the BEST DAY EVAR! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2011, 10:08:14 AM
I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was little, even before Jurassic Park came out.
As such I totally approve of cloning any and all dinosaurs possible, and letting them run rampant. It's not like anyone will miss San Diego that much anyway...
That would be my dream job.
It would be really bad form not to recreate Dinosaurs if we possibly could, just to make up for all the other Animals that we made go extinct. It would be nice for man, as a species to give something back to the environment for a change. It would ensure that generations in the future would have a good supply of fossil fuels to use. Then they wouldn't have to evolve nuclear weapons.