New Dinosaur discovered

Charlie P · 03-21-2006, 10:11 AM

Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species that had one of the longest necks relative to body length ever measured.
A typical neck bone in this creature was about the size of two loaves of bread.
The species, Erketu ellisoni, belongs to the group of massive four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs called Sauropoda, the largest land animals ever to walk on Earth. This giant group also includes Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and the largest of them all, the 120-foot long Argentinasaurus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11928145/?GT1=7850

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kevin1 · 03-21-2006, 10:17 AM

Gee , I wonder what it was before it became an E. Ellisoni ...

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RedAllison · 03-21-2006, 11:29 AM

lmao Iffy, I thought the iron was a waffel iron?

Taint no miraculous discovery if you ask me. Looks like they found the body from a murder scene.

SOMEBODY iced their mother-in-law and shortly there will be a trial...

RA

The Mind · 03-21-2006, 11:50 AM

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Based on the specimen's partial remains, researchers estimate the neck was more than 24 feet long all together. However, estimates of body size, based on limb bones and not including tail, indicate the body was probably about half as long as the neck. This gives E. ellisoni one of the longest necks relative to body size of all sauropods.

Partial ? How partial ?

Wow - thats pretty much set in stone, aint it ?

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Museums and movies have long reconstructed sauropods in postures similar to a giraffe "” with their heads held high, grazing hard-to-reach leaves. But based on how vertebrae fit together, recent studies and computer modeling suggest that these dinosaurs may actually have walked with their necks and heads held parallel to the ground.

You mean they've lied to us all these year on how Sauropods walked ?

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The giant vertebrae also shed light on how sauropods managed life with the burden of such long necks

They found ONE vertebrae and are basing everything on it ?

Give "science" a few years and this will be changed and altered and it won't even be reported the same. Almost gauranteed

burniegoeasily · 03-21-2006, 12:25 PM

Finally, we discovered Rosie Odonell's missing link.

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