Scientists Find "Perfect" Dino Fossil

[Torrasque]

maby this one is the missing link between raptor like creatures and humans!!!!

Three minutes later, creationists rally to deny its existence.

dude, creationist LOVE dinosaurs, why do you think they want to think we live along with them? Because it's AWESOME!!!!

I love my jesus-riding-a-raptor shirt so much ^_^

You know, it pains me to process the fact that we'll probably never be able to picture over 90% of the creatures that ever existed on our planet...

It gets worse if you study environmental geology, and go into further depth of how humanity is fucking the planet

I refute this claim, sir! The amount of time humans have lived on this planet is a million times shorter than the time it has existed. And there's no evidence of global warming. Are you really that smug to think that in the tiny time humans have existed, we fuck up the entire planet which has stood up to thousands of disasters much stronger than us?

Oh this argument again.
I'll just pretend you are trolling so I don't have to waste the time showing you that humans are fucking the planet.
Maybe not to the same degree that you think I mean, but it is happening.

that's all i have to say about that subject. we are fucking up the planet, don't get me wrong, but by the end of it all, nature will survive and new life will come after our self destruction. yes, we shouldn't be harming the environment that is of now and making things harder for us and the other creatures of nature that exist now, but nature will change. we will change it to where a multitude of animals now won't be able to survive, but other life forms will adapt and thrive, so don't think the end of us is the end of the world. it's simply the start of something new. we aren't killing the planet or nature, we are simply changing it, for better or worse, but it will survive, and so will other creatures.

This.
I remember one time in my grade 12 social class, the topic of "can we kill life on earth with a nuclear apocalypse?", and our teacher assured us that life is way too damn resilient to be ended by humans.
So yes, we're fucking the planet, but we aren't destroying it so it becomes Mars. Humans aren't that smart or deadly.

 

[tokae]

That's pretty awesome. Although, the way the tail is bent looks REALLY painful.

It could actually be effects from rigor mortis and decomposing that contracts the muscles and tendons in the neck and tail after death.. If I remember correctly it's what explanation there is for it..
Don't quote me on that though since I'm not really sure..

Any experts around?

 

[OisinDeBrun]

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Clearly that is the bone of whatever animal this dinosaur was eating when it choked to death.[/quote]

Exactly what i was thinking hahah

 

[GoddyofAus]

Wait wait...What are the odds of finding intact DNA in such a well preserved specimen?

 

[Raven_Operative]

They probably wont deny its existence, but they would probably use the excellent condition the skeleton is in to 'prove' that the world isn't as old as all that, and somehow tie Noah's flood into the mix.

Well it does work...

 

[evilartist]

That neck bone could be a hyoid bone, which is meant to protect our throats from being choked shut.

 

[Alar]

Clearly that bone is God's message to the true believers that this is just a test of faith, not any kind of true fossil.

You're funny, man. It's good to know that the Escapist can still have jokers around. ^_^

 

[repeating integers]

And here comes the only appropriate response to dinosaurs
The man said it.

That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Bravo.

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Leave it to the Germans to find something with so many interdependent parts.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Hot damn! It looks just like those cartoons!
Awesome find, guys.

 

[WolfThomas]

Hmmm, perhaps almost too perfect...

The bone beneath his jaw is called the Hyoid bone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone

...Even humans have it.

The reason the dinosaur is making such a weird pose, is the same reason most of the bipedal dinos make this pose. When the dino dries out from decomposition, the tissue(muscle, skin, etc) pulls the skeletal structure into this pose.

Damn Ninja'd.

Spoiler: good picture of it in humans

 

[redeemer09]

anybody esle notice it kind of looks like the first raptor fossil showed in jurassic park 1?

 

[McGuinty1]

The bone beneath his jaw is called the Hyoid bone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone

...Even humans have it.

The reason the dinosaur is making such a weird pose, is the same reason most of the bipedal dinos make this pose. When the dino dries out from decomposition, the tissue(muscle, skin, etc) pulls the skeletal structure into this pose.

Came here to post this. Good jokes, but yeah, all you nerds have a neckbeard bone under your tongue as well. It isn't connected to any other facial bones, it just kind of sits there in a sling formed by the muscles and tissue in the floor of your mouth to give it structure and support. Once those muscles and ligaments rot away, it's free to roam away from your stinking bloated carcass. That this dino's hyoid is intact and that close to its original position is a testament to how well preserved this fossil is.

 

[Adrian Flores]

The majority of you guys are morons. There is no way that bone under the jaw is a bone that it choked on. That would imply that it died while eating, so where is the rest of the animal that is being eaten? Also, the animal is clearly very well articulated so the chances are low that it is a disarticulated limb bone. Especially, when all of the limb bones are accounted for. Also, the bone under the base of the tail is the ischium stupid.
To answer the question of why more specimens aren't found so complete is simple. There are too many variables. Everything needs to be perfect to get a specimen like this one. I've seen many dinosaur skeletons and few had an intact hyoid bone or sclerotic ring. This makes the present specimen very valuable.