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[Marion Cobretti]

Whoa!!!!!!!


That's amazing. I wonder if it ends updated The Met.

 

[woodypop]

You could only have a creature of this size and scale on a flat earth.

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[JonnyDBrit]

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?

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.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Mindblowing shit.

 

[soldat7]

From another angle.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Fus Ro Dah!

Well, there was this edit on an imgur post:

 

[Inquisitive_Ghost]

What a gorgeous specimen.

 

[Fried Food]

Is that the most well preserved dino remains?

 

[Madness]

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

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Is that the most well preserved dino remains?

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.

 

[WorldStar]

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

regardless, very cool find

 

[Daingurse]

Holy shit, this is an incredible find!

 

[Ricky_R]

This got me hyped for Jurassic World 2.

 

[Wulfric]

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.

 

[marc^o^]

Simply amazing 0_o

 

[foxuzamaki]

That's incredible

 

[balladofwindfishes]

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

regardless, very cool find

Different type of dinosaur than the ones that had feathers.

 

[WorldStar]

Different type of dinosaur than the ones that had feathers.

How convenient

 

[GIANKRATOS]

WOW!!!

 

[Ahiru77]

Incredible!

Ah, scales like it should be. Now reinstate Pluto as a planet!

 

[Cuburt]

Me: How amazing could this really be?
*Sees picture*
Me:

 

[Green Mamba]

Couldn't be a dinosaur thread without endless feather whining shitposts.

 

[Goldrusher]

That is beautiful. Wow.

 

[XenodudeX]

Me: How amazing could this really be?
*Sees picture*
Me:

nutted but it's still suckin

 

[Mufc1427]

Amazing.

 

[Tagyhag]

What in the fuck...the level of preservation is mindblowing.

SCIENCE, CLONE IT!!!

 

[BorkBork]

Ankylosaurids > Nodosaurids

This is still really awesome.

 

[Clydefrog]

Mother of god

 

[exmachina64]

God damn it.

Thanks for trying.

 

[TheGameshark]

Looks incredible and wow look at that no feathers.

 

[SchrodingerC]

What in the fuck...the level of preservation is mindblowing.

SCIENCE, CLONE IT!!!

Ehh, they could probably 3D print it.

 

[lastplayed]

Oh look one dinosaur species without feathers turns up and suddenly all dinosaurs don't have feathers.

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[Gravidee]

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.

 

[The Giant]

Holy Shit. Damn good discovery.

 

[Eiji]

 

[Septimus Prime]

It's like a terrestrial Dunkleosteus.

 

[PSqueak]

So, can DNA be extracted from the skin samples mentioned?

 

[lastplayed]

So, can DNA be extracted from the skin samples mentioned?

It's made of rock.. so not really.

 

[jett]

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

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.

So in antiquity there were a bunch of fossilized dinosaurs lying around?

 

[Nostremitus]

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



So in antiquity there were a bunch of fossilized dinosaurs lying around?

Well, yeah...


The ones we're finding now were around back then too... Just buried.


There's a pretty good theory that the gryphon was based on triceratops fossils.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs,_Myths_and_Monsters

 

[GhaleonEB]

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

 

[Boss Doggie]

From another angle.

but that's a wyvern, not a dragon dinosaur

 

[HawksWinStanley]

Yeah sure they "found" it. They knew where to look because they put it there.

 

[Jaeger]

This is absolutely awesome. I hope we can find more in this condition.

 

[Stinkles]

How convenient

My man.

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



So in antiquity there were a bunch of fossilized dinosaurs lying around?

They'd have been unearthed many times for sure. And all over the world.

 

[chrisPjelly]

This Monster Hunter Switch marketing is getting out of control

 

[Mengy]

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

 

[op_ivy]

But the world is only 6,000 years old, how can this be true?

Apparent age. Duh

 

[The Artisan]

No feathers, thats my kind of dinosaur.

Feathers?

 

[xxracerxx]

Feathers?

Where have you been the past 20 years?