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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/18/09

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Look its Mini me!!! I demand ONE HUNDRED MILLION NEANDERTHALS!!! (timeline permitting)!!
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Blue_Thark
09/17/09

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"Jaws on legs"

...Landshark?
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Evdor
09/17/09

@Blue_Thark: "No ma'am, I'm a Dolphin."

Also, FUCK YOU BULETTE.
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Rumtum
09/17/09

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A "mere" three meters in length?
I may be metric challenged, but isn't that like a 10-foot critter? Shoot, I wouldn't take on a 10-foot gator, and they can't even sit up. These guys could leap!
I am once again glad that the dinos grew feathers and got tiny.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/17/09

@Rumtum: I thought the same things.

Also, "candygram".
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Jesustron
09/17/09

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Did they consider it was a juvenile T-Rex?

If that's news, then i have a whole family of miniature humanoids burred in my basement.
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NerD: Blattella
09/17/09

@Jesustron: NO!

They spent years getting their doctorate and studying all of this without understanding the life-cycle of prehistorical animals or being able to comprehend the difference between adolescent and adult sized T-Rex's!

Thank god for the internet, so you could be there to write this comment, thus teaching them the error of their ways!
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Bill-Lee
09/17/09

@Jesustron: The bones of an adult and a juvenile look different. Go ask your doctor about it.
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Jesustron
09/17/09

@NerD: R.O.A.C.H.:

Or maybe your joke detector is just broken. I clearly was just setting myself up for a dead baby comment.
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Jesustron
09/17/09

@Bill-Lee: My god, you people need to lighten up a little bit, have a coke and smile...Your comments are hysterical. We all know dinosaurs aren't even real, god put them there to test us.
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The_Sporean_Bob
09/17/09

@Jesustron: in order for people to take it as a joke, it has to be funny.

Insulting A. scientists and B. T.Rexs, even in joke form, is never funny.
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Daumier
09/17/09

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Awww. It's like a little adolescent T-Rex.

But "Raptorex"? It sounds like its wrestler name. It's almost too awesome.
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kagekiri
09/17/09

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Whoa. For a second I thought the big T-rex in the picture was the Raptorex, and the small one was the T-Rex next to the Raptorex.
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gorehound
09/15/09

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more toys for the rich pricks to own.
i would love to have a bone from a dinosaur
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
09/14/09

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This would go great with the full sized cylon raider I didn't buy ion the BSG auction.

Maybe I could put it in the cockpit of the viper...
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artiofab
09/14/09

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Not to be too much of a negative Nancy, but every one of these specimens that is not in a natural history museum is basically a fossil that is being cut off from the scientific world.

With that said, please continue discussing the whoring out of scientifically valuable extinct lifeforms.
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The Mikekearn of La Mancha
09/14/09

@artiofab: Or you could look at it like this: selling these older pieces that have already been studied to death raises a huge amount of money to keep the museum running, while simultaneously making room for other displays that have been relegated to back storage.
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artiofab
09/15/09

@The Mikekearn of La Mancha: That's a little bit non sequitur to this individual story, because most fossils that are on auction blocks are in private hands, and since the sales are completely free enterprise, it's likely that at least some of the best material will remain so.

But, yes, sometimes museums do sell off specimens. It usually is a last-ditch sort of action, not something planned so that they can wheel in a different display. Similar to how art museums don't sell Rembrandts so they can put up a painting by some hot new artist.

Also, don't know whether you were aware of this or not, but saying that a scientific specimen can be studied to death implies that somehow an individual specimen reaches a research asymptote, after which no more data can be gleaned from it. Is that your actual view?
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/15/09

@artiofab: Its a Dinosaur, its big, its scary and it would rip you a new one.......how much further do our studys need to go? Personally im all for selling it before it kills us all!
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artiofab
09/15/09

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): That's why I don't study dinosaurs. Them bones are just plotting against us, all the time.
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Aidan_
09/14/09

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Okay, so I have to:
A) Steal a car
B) Rob a bank on the way to Las Vegas.
C) Avoid the po-po long enough to make a winning bid.

The things I do for love...
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