New Dinosaur Discovered In Utah

[The Mind]

New Dinosaur Discovered In Utah
Dinosaur Resembled 7-Foot Turkey

Fossils discovered In Utah are from a new species of dinosaur that resembled a large turkey, according to scientists. [/align][/align](well that sounds factual enough, doesn't it ? )[/align][/align]The remains were found buried in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, according to the Local 6 News report. [/align]
Scientists stumbled upon a whole foot that had been safely preserved for 75 million years. [/align][/align]( 75 million - how was that age determined ? )[/align][/align]
Paleontologist Mike Getty said he spotted something in the monument and when he checked it out, he said he knew he'd found a bone of small meat-eating dinosaur. [/align][/align]( could have been ANY kind of bone, but he immediately knew it was a new dinosaur ? )[/align][/align]Lindsay Zanno, a graduate student at the University of Utah, did much of the work putting pieces of the dinosaur puzzle together to come up with the bird and for her efforts she was allowed to pick the name for this new species discovery. [/align][/align]
The dinosaur species has been named Hagryphus Giganteus which means giant four-footed bird-like god of the western desert. [/align][/align]

The scientists who found the animal's foot said they're thrilled to find this body part, because any other part may not have given them so much information about the species. [/align][/align]A foot, and they've already named this bird a new species, it if even was ? Heres a picture of it BTW[/align]




But really, THIS is the picture of the dinosaur bird thing, the one above is all GUESSWORK






C'mon now guys, we all know they cannot re-create an animal from such a small % of skeletal remains. The whole story is made up, what ifs, maybes, and best guesses. I'd be shocked if later these bones aren't classified as something else, dated hundred of millions of years differently etc etc.

Science like this equals guessing.

[Champlain Islander]

I believe I believe
I hope it doesn't turn out to be a collection of bones from a bag of Hooters wings. Or KFC "chicken parts"

[Tazman]

I would love to see a link to that.

[DougMD]

LOLOLOLOL! Champlain!

[The Mind]

http://www.local6.com/news/8474346/detail.html

orig report

now we have

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=186363

Strange New Dinosaur Discovered in Utah[/align]April 4th, 2006 @ 4:41pm[/align]Ed Yeates Reporting
A seven foot tall, two legged bird-like creature has been discovered in a remote area of southern Utah.

Meet Hagryphus giganteus, an odd but ominous dinosaur that certainly looks more like a bird than a dino.
Scott Sampson, Chief Curator, Utah Museum of Natural History: "This specimen in front of me is the only one in the world. This is the only specimen from hagryphus giganteus anywhere on the planet. So it's very rare and very special."

Special in many ways because the well preserved bones were found in our own backyard, in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Though a dedicated egg sitting, toothless dino with a beak, this animal was something you would not want to mess with.

Wow, now they know, by the foot bones, that it layed eggs, was toothless, and had a beak ? AMAZING !

Scott Sampson: "This particular animal was almost certainly a carnivore. To have claws like this generally suggests this is a meat eating animal."

Hagryphus Giganeteus lived 75 million years ago, very near the end of the dinosaur times we're most familiar with. If this was another part of a long and grand transition period, it would explain the oddity.

Scott Sampson: "We know birds are dinosaurs, direct descendants of dinosaurs. If you like eating chicken, you like eating dinosaurs. These particular animals, these overraptors, are closely related to birds; they're closely related to dinosaurs that led to the rise of birds."

Wow, another BOLD statement !

For paleontologists, Grand Staircase is turning out to be a gold mine for dinosaur specimens and new dinos never discovered before."

Scott Sampson: "Grand Staircase represents the last major dinosaur bone yard in the 48 states that hasn't been explored yet."

Hagryphus is just one of many new dinos discovered so far in a five year collaborative project between Grand Staircase and the University of Utah.

[Canuck_Buck]

Is it a dino or a bird-o ?

[boysda]

did i read that right? a seven foot tall turkey?


does john madden know about this??!!

[bawanajim]

ORIGINAL: Champlain Islander

I believe I believe
I hope it doesn't turn out to be a collection of bones from a bag of Hooters wings. Or KFC "chicken parts"

You've seen Hooters with Wings. WoW I gotta get out more.

Around here we just have plan ole Hooters!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[burniegoeasily]

C'mon now guys, we all know they cannot re-create an animal from such a small % of skeletal remains. The whole story is made up, what ifs, maybes, and best guesses. I'd be shocked if later these bones aren't classified as something else, dated hundred of millions of years differently etc etc.

Why not, It happens every day in police forensics. Even to the extent of knowing the race and facial features. But I keep forgetting science is all a myth.

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[boysda]

Burnie, is that supposed to be someone beating a dead hyracotherium?