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Comment preview: i want this to be an egg because it's very cool but the shell looks rather thick. i like dinosaurs but have little palaeontological experience just geological and the fact i work with birds. you should take it to a local natural history museum and they usu ....
Comment preview: Lee is probably in bed now, but I'm a separate hemisphere and wide awake so I'll bite. We can generally tell from the fossil record which dinosaurs DID have feathers, but since feathers are difficult to fossilize - and only in rare cases fossilize - it's d ....
Comment preview: Colour is rarely preserved in fossils, but it [does happen sometimes](http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2012/fossil-focus-the-preservation-of-colour/). Usually all you get are patterns (e.g., [stripes in certain shells](http://www.app.pan.pl/art ....
Comment preview: Paleontologists can rarely get that much information from a fossil. There is [a lot we can get from morphology](http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000321), but those fine details like "attack patterns" aren't something ....
Comment preview: It takes at least 10,000 years for a fossil to form. Since this fossil is a fern, that means it existed in a tropical environment, which means it must have predated the most recent ice age, from 110,000 to 10,000 years ago. Since the fossil looks like sedi ....
Comment preview: Hi, my name is Eric Wilberg. I am a visiting assistant professor at Georgia Southern University. My research focuses on the evolution of crocodiles and their extinct relatives. In general, the term "living fossil" is a bit misleading. Crocodiles are often ....
Comment preview: I am no expert on Dinosaur eggs, but here are some interesting facts about these amazing fossils(I have added additional links for more information): * It is hard to match a specific dinosaur(e.g Velociraptor) to eggs unless we find their bones in the vici ....
Comment preview: This is what I was thinking. You buy him some fake shit and he goes to show all his friends his REAL fossil and it says "Made in China" at the bottom and then he's all confused and starts thinking that China makes Dinosaurs. So he gets out of college later ....
Comment preview: I went to a creationist museum when I was young on a field trip. They showed us a bunch of "proof" that dinosaurs existed like fossils and audio recordings and I bought it, I didn't know any better or have any reason to assume I was being tricked at that a ....
Comment preview: Vertebrate paleontologist here. Birds are dinosaurs, so everything we know about bird genitalia falls under "dinosaur dicks". However, for extinct forms, we can also make inferences using a technique known as phylogenetic bracketing. Dinosaurs are archosau ....
Comment preview: Robert Plot, the curator of an English museum, described and drew a thigh bone that he believed belong to a giant man. It had probably belonged to a Megalosaurus, a dinosaur. This was in the 17th century. The genus would later be coined in the 20th century ....
Comment preview: > why do we not seem to have a fossil record to support this? We don't have any fossils anywhere in the "transitionary phase" so to speak. Am I wrong about that? Yes, you are wrong about this. We have thousands of transitional fossils - they're *all* tr ....
Comment preview: lol. Best question ever. Semi Serious Answer if you're interested (cos I'm not an expert, pop over to /r/Paleontology for more): No one can say for certain what color they were which is why everything you see is an artists interpretation. But... You can ge ....
Comment preview: So right now, we don't know much about dinosaur color. The exception is that for some fossil feathers, we have clues about *certain* colors. But that's only sometimes, and many colors are not even preserved then. We do get skin impressions from many dinosa ....
Comment preview: Meteorites are very common, just in general. The "t-rex bone", however, I'm extremely skeptical about. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. When we find fossilized dinosaur bones, we're not actually finding their bones. We are finding mineral deposition ....
Comment preview: In ancient times dinosaur bones fuelled mythology. In Asia there are many [beautifully preserved fossils](http://research.amnh.org/paleontology/f/25.jpg), and they were (and are still in some places) sold as [dragon bones](http://paleo.cc/ce/chinese-dragon ....
Comment preview: Bill Hicks did the lower-right one, really, really well. >If the world's 12,000 years old and the Bible covers it, why didn't someone bring up fuckin' dinosaurs? You'd think SOMEONE would have brought that up ...SOMEWHERE in the goddamn book. >12,000 ....
Comment preview: There's a lot of people gettting downvoted for saying the simple truth; there really is no way to put an accurate number on it. Fossil preservation is exceedingly rare, and only happens in certain environments. Those are not good datapoints to extrapolate ....
Comment preview: If you haven't already, you guys should check out the Academy of Natural Science right across the street from the Franklin Institute. I volunteer there helping in the Live Animal Center and the Paleo exhibit. I think it's a much more interesting place, to ....
Comment preview: The oldest certain find of dinosaur bones, not speculating or inferring, was by Chang Qu, 4th Century BC, Sichuan http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/where-did-dragons-come-from-23969126/ The reaction was mystification and wonder, support for the ....
Comment preview: If you don't believe in dinosaurs, I'm not interested. I went on a date with a girl, and somehow the topic of dinosaurs came up. She proceeded to tell me she didn't believe in them and that it was all a big conspiracy, headed up by plastic manufacturers. ....
Comment preview: > According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and the ....
Comment preview: Well, there is quite a difference between touching your first real dinosaur fossil and touching the first real dinosaur fossil that *YOU* found. I can tell you that the second one is much, much more exciting. Kind of a fun story, but the first dinosaur fos ....
Comment preview: My chemistry teacher has this "dinosaur theory." You'll see why I quote it, but it's pretty elaborate. I'm giving it my own creative spin, as well as his original details. --- Humans have lived for only a fraction of a million years, and we've come very fa ....
Comment preview: I did a little bit of research into the origins of this picture... and I uncovered something of a mystery. As far as I can tell, nobody is certain where the image came from, nor what prompted the subject to declare an absence of prehistoric reptiles. The p ....
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