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Old 05-September-2006, 04:15 PM
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Huge numbers of dinosaurs lie in wait

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They are natural history’s superstars, yet we know surprisingly little about the diversity of dinosaurs. Now a mathematical model provides an estimate of how many different genera of dinosaurs there were.

The good news is that at least 70% are still be waiting to be found, the analysis suggests. The work could also stoke the debate about what killed the dinosaurs off in the first place.

Steve Wang, a statistician at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and Peter Dodson, a palaeontologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, totted up the skeletons found so far from each known dinosaur genus and plugged the figures into an established mathematical model that links observed data to unseen genera.

Only 527 genera have so far been described, but the model estimated that there should be about 1850 in total – leaving plenty yet to be discovered.
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Weird. When I read the thread title, I pictured deinonycusses.

And after all, how many skeletons do we have? A dozen (or less) tyrannosaurus?
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I found a five foot fossil that a palaeontologist suggest (over the phone) was an end cretaceous marine reptile. In light of this news I'm going to return to the site and get much more details than previously (as I had assumed it was a well known species).
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are these collisionless non-baryonic "dark dinosaurs", by chance?

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I found a five foot fossil that a palaeontologist suggest (over the phone) was an end cretaceous marine reptile. In light of this news I'm going to return to the site and get much more details than previously (as I had assumed it was a well known species).
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Am I the only one to see that as a little on the low side. Would be interesting to see a comparrison say with existing mammals - and evidence of past mammal families
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Am I the only one to see that as a little on the low side. Would be interesting to see a comparrison say with existing mammals - and evidence of past mammal families
Mammalocentric, you are.

You should be ashamed.

After all, it was a variation of Chondrichthyes Dasyatidae that did in a Homo Sapiens Sapiens known familiarly as Steve Irwin.

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After all, it was a variation of Chondrichthyes Dasyatidae that did in a Homo Sapiens Sapiens known familiarly as Steve Irwin.
Thats only because certain people want you to think that.

It was actually a Dingo (Mammal) in a suit. Using controlled demoltion to launch the barb at Mr Irwin.
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CGI Irwin, that is. Even though we haven't seen the footage. Still CGI.
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The thread title is a little misleading, this was the first thing that popped into my mind.

http://calvinandhobbeshideout.com/calvin_dinosaur.jpg
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Those sneaky dinosaurs, lying in wait like that. You'd think it would be hard for them to hide, but the growing number of SUV's and such give them plenty of objects to hind behind, plus there's always the convenient building or dark, bushy corner.
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The thread title is a little misleading, this was the first thing that popped into my mind. [Snip!]
I'll say! This is the first thing that popped into my mind:

[Hunter S. Thompson mode]AUUUGGH!! Dinosaurs! They're out there, just waiting for us!!
BLAM!!
Just nailed a pink diplodocus!!
BLAM!! BLAM!!
Take that you green pin-striped T. Rex!!

Whew, gotta stop puttin' belladona in my Wild Turkey![/Hunter S. Thompson mode]
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I'll say! This is the first thing that popped into my mind:

[Hunter S. Thompson mode]AUUUGGH!! Dinosaurs! They're out there, just waiting for us!!
BLAM!!
Just nailed a pink diplodocus!!
BLAM!! BLAM!!
Take that you green pin-striped T. Rex!!

Whew, gotta stop puttin' belladona in my Wild Turkey![/Hunter S. Thompson mode]
Whatever CM's drinking, I want some too! (Hold the belladonna...)

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One recent week in the Gobi Desert produced 67 dinosaur skeletons for a team of palaeontologists from Montana and Mongolia who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs.

Montana State University palaeontologist Jack Horner said Wednesday that the same area yielded 30 skeletons last year, so researchers at MSU and Mongolia's Science and Technology University now have about 100 Psittacosaurus skeletons. The skeletons ranged in length from one to five feet and stood about two feet tall.

"That's what I was there for -- getting as many of those as we could possibly get" - Jack Horner .
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Weird. When I read the thread title, I pictured deinonycusses.
When I read the title I thought you meant the NEW dinosaurs (neosaurus?) that are going to evolve when the Earth's temperature returns to what it was in the Cretaceous.
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