Huge Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed

Argentina Excavation Yields 105-Foot Herbivore, Believed To Be New Species

(AP)  The skeleton of what's believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found - has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday.

Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for "giant" and "chief," and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton's excavation.

"This is one of the biggest in the world and one of the most complete of these giants that exist," said Jorge Calvo, director of paleontology center of National University of Comahue, Argentina, lead author of a study on the dinosaur published in the peer-reviewed Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Scientists said the giant herbivore walked the Earth some 88 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.

Since the first bones were found on the banks of Lake Barreales in the Argentine province of Neuquen in 2000, paleontologists have dug up the dinosaur's neck, back region, hips and the first vertebra of its tail.

"I'm pretty certain it's a new species," agreed Peter Mackovicky, associate curator for dinosaurs at Chicago's Field Museum, who was not involved with the discovery. "I've seen some of the remains of Futalognkosaurus and it is truly gigantic."

Calvo said the neck alone must have been 56 feet long, and by studying the vertebrae, they figured the tail probably measured 49 feet. The dinosaur reached over 43 feet tall, and the excavated spinal column alone weighed about 9 tons when excavated.

Patagonia also was home to the other two largest dinosaur skeletons found to date - Argentinosaurus, at around 115 feet long, and Puertasaurus reuili, between 115 and 131 feet long.

Comparison between the three herbivores, however, is difficult because scientists have only found few vertebrae of Puertasaurus and while the skeleton of Futalognkosaurus is fairly complete, scientists have not uncovered any bones from its limbs.

North America's dinosaurs don't even compare, Mackovicky added in a phone interview. "Dinosaurs do get big here, but nothing near the proportions we see in South America."

The site where Futalognkosaurus was found has been a bonanza for paleontologists, yielding more than 1,000 specimens, including 240 fossil plants, 300 teeth and the remains of several other dinosaurs.

"As far as I know, there is no other place in the world where there is such a large and diverse quantity of fossils in such small area. That is truly unique," said Alexander Kellner, a researcher with the Brazilian National Museum and co-author of the dinosaur's scientific description.

[phil-in-fin]

Just to get things going, as everyone else does ...

George W. Bush, and his inadequate climate control policy, caused the dinosaurs to go extinct!

That mindless Bush-wacker went to war in Iraq, not for crude oil just to burn in our cars, but to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and kill every living dinosaur on the planet!

Bush-wacker should be impeached today!

Sieg Heil, Bush!

[jowand]

Bush-wacker should be impeached today!

Sieg Heil, Bush!


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Posted by phil-in-Fin at 04:15 PM : Oct 15, 2007

ZIG HELL and go polish your Iron Cross you nut job nazi lover.

[hawksprings]

Huge Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed...

No wait, IT''S ALGORE!!!!!!

[joshdestardi]

Well, Phil...considering the number of reasons Shrub himself has already proffered for this mindless, unplanned, inadequately prepared outing in Iraq, the reasons you listed COULD be next on his list to pull out of his behind.

Why don''t you ask him?

[phil-in-fin]

To jowand,

Thanks for understanding my joke, "L" for loser ...

[bobgee_1999]

Dinosaurs never existed. This is clearly just a man with arthritis.

[nexgen99]

I heard they named it Al Goreosaurus. Because Gore announced he invented it from his own DNA.

[rbburnerjr]

56 foot neck and 49 foot tail =105 feet long What no body? Sounds like a direct quote from W

[gaye5]

It continues to amaze me that they just don''t except that it is a species of its own.. we have different types of lizard, different types of humans, different types of dogs, cats etc, so why on earth do they have to presume that one dinosaur evolved from another..
All I can say is evolution is man trying to make a monkey of himself..

[mythoughtsr]

Oh I''m sure the Christians will chime in soon and say the dinosaurs never existed. Oh wait, they''re waiting for the "Rapture". Can''t wait to see little piles of clothes everywhere. ROFL

[hawksprings]

MyThoughtsR, the Bible, in the book of Job, talks about Dinosaurs. Christians never denied they existed.
I still think this one is Algore.


Go Rockies!

[fsm12]

Did they find a saddle with this fossil too?

[shanev137]

Why would the Bible know anything about dinosaurs that existed 88 million years ago? LOL

[actornaught]

Gaye5, what are those different kinds of humans?

[hungry1968]

MyThoughtsR, the Bible, in the book of Job, talks about Dinosaurs. Christians never denied they existed.
I still think this one is Algore.

Go Rockies!

Posted by hawksprings at 07:00 PM : Oct 15, 2007



You''ve been listening to singinrick too long. He pointed out this alleged reference to dinosaurs:

Job 40:15
Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.

This could be a water buffalo, an elephant, or a rhinoceros. But I guess to a Christian that''s "iron clad proof".

Unbelievable.

[hawksprings]

hungry, you need to read more of Job. You can''t just pick out that one verse. There''s more there that talks about his tail being huge and powerful, his scales being inpenetrable, laughing at chains. How a man would be a fool to try and take on a Leviathan.

When you read all the mentions of it in Job (which is the oldest book in the Bible) it sounds just like these dinosaur skeletons they keep digging up.

But this one, it sounds like Algore.



Go Rockies!

[actornaught]

scales being inpenetrable, ...
Posted by hawksprings

Scales aren''t a dinosaur characteristic, or they''d be part of the extensive fossil evidence.

It''s entirely likely that early and prehistoric people lived among easily found bones of mammoths and such, as well as easily found dino fossils. Stories to explain them would logically be next. And a tail like a tree trunk, trees can be fossilized, as well.

[hawksprings]

You need to read Job instead of picking it apart based on these posts.
A Mammoth''s tail, if it''s anything like an elephant''s tail, wouldn''t strike fear in anyone.

I gotta go home and have supper.


GO Rockies!

[hawksprings]

You need to read Job instead of picking it apart based on these posts.
A Mammoth''s tail, if it''s anything like an elephant''s tail, wouldn''t strike fear in anyone.

I gotta go home and have supper.


GO Rockies!

[jn122736]

The bible mentions the %u201Cdragon%u201D numerous times, all the way from Nehemiah through revelations. Of course all books of mythology speak of dragons or dragon like creatures.

King Arthur%u2019s knights of the roundtable often fought dragons.

I wonder, how many dinosaurs of this size Noah managed to get into his, relatively small, ark?

[iceman_1960]

"The skeleton of what"s believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found -"

See ? If you really want to bulk about, forget those steaks.

Switch over to the vegetarian diet.

[iceman_1960]

"You need to read Job instead of picking it apart based on these posts.

GO Rockies!"
- Posted by hawksprings at 07:57 PM : Oct 15, 2007

I have read it.

Nowhere in the Book of Job does it say "GO Rockies!"

[iceman_1960]

There is no realistic, scientific description of dinosaurs in the Bible. Just mythological creatures meant to scare people into obedience.

Where is the dinosaurs" patterns of reproduction or their typical manner of obtaining food, mentioned anywhere in the Bible ?

[hawksprings]

Oh Iceman, don''t be so obstinate. The Bible isn''t a biology book that describe the feeding and mating habits of animals.
Read Job 41, here''s part of it.
"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words? Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life? Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls? ...Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering. No one is fierce enough to rouse him.
...I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form. Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle? Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth? His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.

Sounds a lot to me what I was taught some dinosaurs were like.

Go forth Rockies and destroy the enemy!

[hawksprings]

Here''s some more of Job 41 describing a dinosaur:

They (the plates on his back) are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted. His snorting throws out flashes of light...
Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him. The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing. The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin. Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood. Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance. His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. Behind him he leaves a glistening wake;
one would think the deep had white hair. Nothing on earth is his equal-- a creature without fear.
He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud."


Sounds like how I would describe some of the dinosaurs I saw on Jurassic park!

Go forth Rockies and smite the Snakes, the Native Americans, and the Crimson Stockings.
Destroy them in three days, no, four.

[big_family1]

As Adam and Eve carried the DNA for all of the human genetic characteristics seen today, the original dinosaurs would have been the same. Very few varieties would have to be created to develop the flying, swimming, and land based dinosaurs. Being the current fossil record is well over 99% plant, insect, and fish based, one could assume there were only a few hundred dinosaurs of the different varieties that ever existed. Of course, the great flood did a beautiful job of preserving them for us.

[hungry1968]

Posted by hawksprings at 08:56 PM : Oct 15, 2007


It stills sounds like a rhinoceros, hippo, or elephant. If it said something like, "It stands over 24 feet tall..." then maybe.

Oh wait - that was Goliath. I''m sorry - a man could only be 24 feet tall in a book of fairy tales. Not something as factual as the Bible.
(Eyes rolling...)

[hawksprings]

hungry,
Goliath was somewhere between 8 and 10 feet tall, not 24. Where ever you picked that up you need to get your money back.

Plus the animals you mentioned have little piggy-like tails, not the kind described in Job 41. Plus they don''t have skin like the kind described in Job 41.

It''s describing a dino, accept it and move on.



Go Rockies.

[old5hita55]

Golith was 11 feets tall because thjey fount his bones and measured him up. You have be an idiot to think he was 24 feets tall and I dont know where you ever got that there information no how.

[gaye5]

actornaught we have pygmies, reports of people who were over 7 feet tall, different colors and different sizes.. different looks but basically the same..

MyThoughtsR, I have read also that the bible talks about dinosaurs, and something else that I have read is that Dinosaur foot steps and human footsteps have been found in the same rock together...
Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24

* It %u201Ceats grass like an ox.%u201D
* It %u201Cmoves his tail like a cedar.%u201D (In Hebrew, this literally reads, %u201Che lets hang his tail like a cedar.%u201D)
* Its %u201Cbones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.%u201D
so whatever a behemoth is, it is large, In fact, there is no animal living today which fits the description. Therefore, it is an extinct animal.

[hawksprings]

I still think it''s Algoresaurus.

[fibonacci_]

"Scientists said the giant herbivore walked the Earth some 88 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period."

[fibonacci_]

"Scientists said the giant herbivore walked the Earth some 88 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period."