Wow! I have trod your sacred land and did not realize upon which I stepped. I think I dated one of those Ornithiscians, but how was I to know he was in a very old religious sect?! (They sound birdlike so I will be off to www.google.com to find them)

Please tell us more about the Ornithiscian you'd once dated and the arcane religious practices of their sect. That is if you don't have to kill the person(s) to whom divulge such information.

*GRIN* I was sworn to secrecy, but it did involve a great deal of unbuttoning and attempts to rebutton faster than it was undone. As for the feathers... Perhaps that is best left to the imagnation.

Marcia, it seems it might have been a bit of a ticklish situation. *Grin* Say no more.

*Laugh* Cheryl, I can tell you have been to college, too!

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Wow!!! Dinosaur news! Thank you Maggie *HUGS* for posting this!

watched the movie this weekend and i really liked it. i think the dinosaurs are cool and no nightmares for the kids!

I guess I got spoiled by seeing real ones all those years in the American Museum of Natural History. The archaeologist and paleontologist in me also rebels at putting feelings into these creatures. We have found so few of somes of them we have no idea how they lived. Yeah, I know. I just take the kids and be quiet. Only I don't have any kids to take. Too dark in there to read a good book...*sigh* I'm delighted you enjoyed it, Wolfie!

i don't know if anyone can say exactly what these creatures did but i could hardly contain myself thinking about all the work that went into these creatures whose roars sounded like they came out of their mouths and the dilating pupils, and to think that T Rex was my fave out of all their critters. that's what amazed me the most!

I was watching a special on the movie on Discovery Channel and there is a 1000 hp (one thousand horse power) motor running that T Rex. Check out that chariot that gets you to the grocery store. That whole movie represents Huge amounts of money. Whether it might have been better used is a question I will not even think of answering. I am delighted both you and the kids (or is it all of you kids?!) enjoyed it.

the kids and i enjoyed it while the big kid did not.

Big Kids are always the most difficult. I have one of my own, so I know... *HUGS*

Marcia, could you imagine getting to the grocery store in a 1,000 hp motorized T.Rex. That could make the neighbors sit up and take notice. Wolfie, glad that you and the kids enjoyed the movie. I haven't seen it yet.

In California, a 1000 hp T Rex is the ONLY way to get from point A to point B on the freeways. At least we would be intact. No guarantees on scratches or dents, though. Don't you wonder what something like that eats? Anything it wants!

Whenever it wants!

Some folks want to create Jurassic Park, literally, and plan to use the mammoth that was dug up to get it started. Check out this link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/08/21/clone.mammoth/index.html

Oh yes! I had heard of that. Thanks for the link. I wonder why this is not showing up as active as Geo 22. Another puzzlement.b

found this article awhile back and am finally able to post it here. dinosaurs in germany: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YR5L30SZNRRQMCRBAEOCFEY? type=scienceNews&storyID=5609871

copy and paste the entire link so you can go straight to the article (include stuff after the question mark)

A Major T. Rex Breakthrough Broken Bone Leads to Discovery of Soft Tissues By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A01 Paleontologists have recovered what appear to be soft tissues from the thighbone of a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, potentially enabling dinosaur research to make a leap into studying the animals' physiology and perhaps even their cell biology, the research team said yesterday. Working with the remains of a T. rex unearthed in northeastern Montana's celebrated Hell Creek formation, the paleontologists spied the soft tissue when they were forced to break the thighbone into pieces to fit it aboard a helicopter.

I can hear the cameras grinding already on Jurassic Park 42 (or whatever number this sequel is) - and now they have some faint glimmer of scientific truth to work with. Can Velociraptors be far behind?

here's a new finding--dinosaur/crocodile... http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20051107/croc_din.html?source=msn_cml_news

Wasn't that a B grade movie "Dinocroc"?

probably, but now they've found that it existed!

DB will love this creature. From the pictures I've seen, the teeth are amazingly ferocious. Scientists reveal prehistoric terror Thursday, November 10, 2005; Posted: 4:10 p.m. EST (21:10 GMT) (CNN) -- Scientists say they have discovered the intact fossilized skull of a marine crocodile with a dinosaur-like head and a fish-like tail that likely terrorized the Pacific Ocean 135 million years ago. The head of the expedition that found the specimen has dubbed it "Godzilla." The fossil was discovered in 1996 in the Patagonia region of Argentina and researchers spent years uncovering the skull and analyzing their find. They published their work Thursday in the journal Science. more... http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/11/10/godzilla.find/index.html

Is anyone watching Surface?

nope....

Not I. How is it?

Pretty good. Think there's a topic in tv. I'll chat it up.

Put a link down and maybe you can get Geo lurkers to go there, too *;)

I created the topic in tv.

People who use Unix to read the web are basically lazy. I know. I did it for a while. It is just too difficult to cut and paste there so links never show up.

a complete dodo skeleton has been unearther: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180208,00.html

They are dead, I hear. Thanks Wolfie. There is a new study on-going about the Neanderthal to check DNA for a social upgrade. Perhaps they weren't so dumb and clumsy as once thought. I know for fact that at least one went to college. I dated him, once!

*LAUGH*

What was his major?

You need to ask? HHD or phys ed as we called it way back then. That is Health and Human Development / physical education. Sports. They major in football.