"Museum IDs New Species of Dinosaur" Oh dear... More evidence that EVOLUTION is real.

[in_cog_ni_to]

My, my, my....Poor little RW wacko fundie brains are gonna be exploding over this one. Damn those facts.


Museum IDs New Species of Dinosaur
By Associated Press

CLEVELAND - A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.

The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops _ which came 10 million years later. However, this animal belonged to a subfamily that usually had bony nubbins a few inches long above their eyes.
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The creature was about 20 feet long and lived 78 million years ago.

The oldest known horned dinosaur in North America is called Zuniceratops. It lived 12 million years before Ryan's find, and also had large horns.

That makes the newly found creature an intermediate between older forms with large horns and later small-horned relatives, said State of Utah paleontologist Jim Kirkland, who with Douglas Wolfe identified Zuniceratops in New Mexico in 1998. He predicted then that something like Ryan's find would turn up.

"Lo and behold, evolutionary theory actually works," he said. (emphasis is mine)

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/03/03/601709.html&cvqh=itn_dino

[sakabatou]

1. .

:popcorn:

[Fridays Child]

2. Now, wait a minute! Didn't dinosaurs become extinct when they...

...were chased from the garden of Eden and fell off the edge of the earth?

[alarimer]

8. No they drowned during the Flood

Noah didn't have room on his boat for the Brachiosaurus and the Velociraptors, well, they killed everything else.

[soothsayer]

11. I thought it was from smoking.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. They lived at the same time as early humans.

That's been proved. How else could there be cartoons of people riding dinosaurs?

[Gwerlain]

4. It's always fun arguing with woos about evilution.

Evolution is a FACT. Evolution by natural selection is a theory. They never seem to get that straight.

[petronius]

5. This doesn't prove anything - it actually weakens the evolution case:

Now there are two gaps in the fossil record where there used to be only one. <whiny freeper voice> Where are the transitionaaalls? </whiny freeper voice>

:sarcasm:

[kestrel91316]

7. ROFLMAO

[Mr. Ected]

6. Perhaps We May Now Learn the Root Cause of Global Warming

Dinosaur farts, you know. ;-)

[Kurovski]

9. Why do Dinosaurs hate baby Jesus?

:cry:

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Zuniceratops

From the website of the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Research Group