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    Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Of course it depictss a Stegosaurus. Just compare the photo of the bas-relief with the accurately colored illustration below. They're even facing the same way.

    You cannot ignore the facts.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Well I've heard it theorized that fossil remains were one of the inspirations for dragon stories. I've also heard that people in China(?) would grind up dragon bones (fossils) for their medicinal properties. I would imagine that fossils may have been much more common thousands of years ago. Then humans started collecting them for various cultural reasons and over time most of the easily found fossils were destroyed. That leaves the more difficult to find fossils we know today.
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    03/10/09

    @chargernj: The "dragon" bones used in Chinese medicine were almost always of mammals. Fossils are still being found in China but the probably used up a lot of them.


    For similar reasons there are probably no natural jade deposits or bears left in the Middle Kingdom. River turtles are so rare China is importing them from the US.

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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    NO NO NO.....it's SO obvious
    It's Godzilla, pre atomic makeover.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Well we know they were living in Africa until the 80's thanks to the documentary "Baby: The Lost Legend"
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Oh, in passing, if you ask pretty much any working paleontologist (who's not emotionally invested in the alternative) "Hey, when did the dinosaurs die out?", these days, they'll mostly answer "They didn't." Senior ornithologists aside (many of whom appear to think that birds have to be this amazing unique creation, and get very stroppy about the feathered dinosaurs from China,) it's generally accepted these days that birds are, in phylogenetic terms, dinosaurs, and so, yes, dinosaurs survived in the Cambodian jungle until the middle ages. They survived in the chicken farm up the road until I bought me a bucket of extra-crispy, too.
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    03/10/09

    @capnrob: Oh you and your evolutionary theory.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Looks in the head region to be a triceratops. The large bony crest type shape.
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    03/10/09

    @NoO and A_GitEmSteveDave: Look at the image straight on (see above link.) If it's anything, it's a rhino head. Seriously.
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    03/10/09

    @capnrob: I did. I am just saying the angle shown looks more like a triceratops surrounded by leaves/sunbeams than a stego.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    It's hard enough to believe that this PARTICULAR species survived for 60 million years in this PARTICULAR area- even harder to believe that it would show no significant evolution over that time.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    03/10/09

    @Steel_Pelican: Especially considering all of the Stegosaurus bones we've ever found have been in North America.
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Or, as has been shown repeatedly, if you actually look at the illustration head on, and don't photoshop it, it's a frickin' asian rhino with some background leaves. Look at the lump things around the outside of the circle; same graphic elements as inside. Look at the other animal circles for the same graphic elements.


    To take a look at the circle head-on, try this link:


    [fishheadsalad.com]


    Let's not post creationist stalking horses if we can help it, please?

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    03/10/09

    @capnrob: "It looks suspisiously like a type of asian rhino!

    And like Cambodia, rhinos are found in south east asia."


    AHAHAHAHAH!

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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    If I may apply Occam's Razor here: "One expert on Khmer ruins has told us that it is unlikely that these images are a recent addition to the temple."


    Yes, clearly that is far less likely than the localized survival of dinosaurs more than 60 million years after the rest of them died out. Clearly.

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    03/10/09

    @Ed Grabianowski: Didn't mean to come off so snarky there. :-)
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    03/10/09

    @Ed Grabianowski: Sarkiness, when it's called for, as it is clearly in this situation, is sometimes quite refreshing to hear.


    A good horse laugh is sometimes worth a thousand syllogisms.

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    03/10/09

    @Ed Grabianowski:



    ???

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    03/10/09

    @braak: That's fucking priceless. Do they have something for Crabtree's Bludgeon?
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    03/10/09

    @corpore-metal: but then, a good goat laugh is worth about 35 analogies, but really, what kind of exchange rate are we working with here?
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Or it's a Siamese Crocodile, and the artist found it difficult or uninteresting to create more subtle back ridges in the stone carvings.


    Wait, no. No it's not. Get out of here boring serious commenter. Go away!

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    03/10/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: We boring, serious commentors need to stick together, Buick. Science does not rob the world of beauty or wonder. If anything they deepen it enormously.


    I just wish more people appreciated that.


    We need another Sagan.

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    03/10/09

    @corpore-metal: Every time a serious boring comment is posted, an imp loses it's wings.


    @Dunny0: It was my evil twin, 92LincolnTownCar.

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    03/10/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: There's no way it's a crocodile - the entire shape of the body is wrong, and the legs go straight down like an elephants, instead of splaying out like a reptile's.
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    03/10/09

    @SeeingI: I didn't say it was a very good crocodile.
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    03/10/09

    In reply to Did Dinosaurs Survive in the Cambodian Jungle Until the Middle Ages?
    Ahem: [www.scribblescribblescribble.com]
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    03/10/09

    @Moff: are you allowed to link to your own blog around here? I thought that was forbidden?
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    03/10/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: But Moff is the extremely rare author of an io9 article as well. I wonder how that works?
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    03/10/09

    @Moff: But of course, this explains everything.
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    03/10/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: We have rules?


    Anyway, I figured it was germane.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/10/09

    @Moff: Yeah, you're allowed to link to stuff you've written as long as it's not spam. Here is an example of the kind of comment we don't allow: "Wow, what an interesting post. I know a site where you can meet lots of singles at hotspameinjection.org." Moff's dating site for dinosaurs, however, is exempt because Moff has "special dinosaur status." Which I cannot tell you about.
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    03/10/09

    @Annalee Newitz: But does Moff's DinoDate.com have one eyed dinosaurs? I am very particular in my tastes of mono-ocular sauropods.
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    03/10/09

    @Moff: Speaking of Germanes:

    I've read this article before at the Very Important Paleontology Conference at Freiberg . All of those Brilliant Scientists, so famous I do not need to repeat their names, agreed the Moffuloid Theory of Draconic Obviousness makes perfect sense, much more so than Mein Kampf. Well done, Dr. Moff.
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    03/10/09

    @Grey_Area: I think someone forgot their Normalcy pills today.
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    03/10/09

    @crashedpc: Why thank you, Admiral Byrd. I like your hat too!
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    03/10/09

    @crashedpc: wait...we have Normalcy pills???? I knew every one was holding out on me. Where's that Io9 drug stash.
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    03/10/09

    @Grey_Area: Verily, it is top quality ceramic shrink wrap!
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    03/10/09

    @LittleDragon: My distilled blood is the drug stash.
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    03/10/09

    @crashedpc: "Post-apocalyptic Transhuman Dinosaur Dystopia."


    EVERYBODY DRINK!

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    @Grey_Area: That's worth 4 drinks right there!
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