Yet another example of astonishing fossil preservation

[Howlin Mad Missy]

that's one big cap.

[Andre]

that's one big cap.

Did they find it in a dinosaurs ass?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

that's one big cap.

Did they find it in a dinosaurs ass?

wouldn't it be great if they did?

Maybe it went next to the exhibit that said T-Rex was vegetarian.

[Kirkland Laing]

that's one big cap.

It'd be really difficult to walk round wearing a necklace of them.

[Kev]

Rather incredibly the BBC news website reports today how palaeontologists have actually drawn using ink from a 150 million year old squid.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Wiltshire | Ink found in Jurassic-era squid


So not only is this squid unevolved in over 150 million years of evolution it's ink sac full of ink has remained nice and wet for of all that time, no small achievement considering the nozzles on my last printer clogged and went dry after just a few months

Am I the only person here who is sceptical that ink can remain in a liquid form for over 150 million years? That's one hell of a fucking shelf life I'd like to see Epson manage that

Which part do you have problems with understanding? The fact that is hasn't evolved or they found ink?

Sharks haven't 'evolved' either, there's a very simple reason for this, hope you're paying attention - there is no need - they are top predators (apart from us) and their environment hasn't really forced change either. Same with squid hope that helps.

Actually the only real change they need to make to kill more humans.

They have evolved, they got smaller.




Of course that tooth is only 6000 years old.

No that tooth is just a massively oversized man made replica and is probably around 3 maybe 4 years old

[Kirkland Laing]

Which part do you have problems with understanding? The fact that is hasn't evolved or they found ink?

Sharks haven't 'evolved' either, there's a very simple reason for this, hope you're paying attention - there is no need - they are top predators (apart from us) and their environment hasn't really forced change either. Same with squid hope that helps.

Actually the only real change they need to make to kill more humans.

They have evolved, they got smaller.




Of course that tooth is only 6000 years old.

No that tooth is just a massively oversized man made replica and is probably around 3 maybe 4 years old

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers'

[Kev]

They have evolved, they got smaller.




Of course that tooth is only 6000 years old.

No that tooth is just a massively oversized man made replica and is probably around 3 maybe 4 years old

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers'

Yeah I've read it mate. It's 'interesting' that as the possibility of therapod to bird evolution has been questioned by the latest scientific research into the differences between birds and dinosaurs that more and more of these feathered dinosaurs are appearing, and always from Liaoning, that notorious hotbed of fraud and deception.

As a learned man I know you will be aware of the Archaeoraptor hoax that the National Geographic proudly put on the front cover of their magazine as the final 'proof' of dinosaur-bird evolution a decade or so ago and that turned out to be a forgery, rather embarrasingly for the scientific community.

These fossils havn't been properly assessed yet. Over the next few years if you keep following the journals then you'll see what they really are.

Either forgeries, the latest link you gave, was after all not discovered by paleontologists but as is usually the case, bought at market from the locals, who are very adept at forging fossils, it's a multi million pound industry after all.

Or else it's just misidentification, the creatures will likely just turn out to be birds after all.

It's always the way, they will announce the find with much fanfare and state that they have definitely found a missing link and proved their theories, then over the intervening years the finds will (very slowly as nobody gets access to the original material unless they agree witht the discovers viewpoint) be evaluated and critiqued and eventually rejected, but in total silence as far as the public are concerned, who will just remember that science 'proved' birds are dinosaurs.

Give it time, and remember me a few years from now when you'll see I was right, although by then of course it won't matter about this fossil as they will found an even better one with even more convincing proof.