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National Geographic: The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada

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JonnyDBrit

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Freeza Under The Shower said:
Neat... dinosaur.

But this means the coloring will also be known, right? Because that's still one of those topics that is in need of settling: how did non-avian dinosaurs use colors?
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If they can even find traces from amongst the fossilised skin, yeah. It's a bit like how they reconstruct the colours of marble statues - no, they weren't sheer white in ancient Greece and Rome.
 
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soldat7

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skyrim_dragon.jpg


From another angle.
 
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Madness

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You just know if it was alive today some poachers would be killing it, somebody would make medicine out of it, a corporation wiuld want to make boots and belts out of the skin, and some would definitely want to eat it.

But that looks amazing. That much detail being preserved. I recently was watching Planet Earth II, won't be long till we have exterminated most non-domestic wildlife on the planet. Even today, thread about a guy beating a goose for attacking his son, and others saying geese are territorial and a menace, but no one ever thinks, where do you want them to go? Raze a forest and raise chickens and sheep on a farm and then kill wolves because they eat them. Build a mansion in a mountaintop and then kill grizzly cubs or cougars because they eat out of the garbage or attack your pet cat.

Also, finally #TeamNoFeathers
 
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JonnyDBrit

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Fried Food said:
Is that the most well preserved dino remains?
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Depends on what metric you use. It's technically an incomplete skeleton, and it is heavily calcified; but as a creature with all the insides represented within the portions we do have available, and with particular regards to exterior appearance itself, I'd heavily wager so, yeah.
 
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WorldStar

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love how it clearly doesn't have feathers, yet some still choose to believe that dinosaurs had feathers

regardless, very cool find
 
Wulfric

Wulfric

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That's amazing! It looks like a Skyrim dragon.

It really is humbling to see fossils and realize we're fragile meat snacks in comparison.
 
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Gravidee

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With this find as well as that dinosaur tail and claw found in amber, I hope that someday we can find an even better specimen in a preserved state.
 
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jett

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That's really interesting. It looks really close to our imagined depictions of dinosaurs.

Stinkles said:
And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.
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So in antiquity there were a bunch of fossilized dinosaurs lying around?
 
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GhaleonEB

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That's an amazing find. Stinkles is right in noting the dragon similarities, that first picture is pure fantasy, fossilized.
 
Mengy

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Wow, that is an amazing find. I'd absolutely love to see that in person!
 
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