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New raptor found!
« on: November 07, 2015, 10:43:18 pm »
Seriously, a week already and I missed this?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/05/dakotaraptor-feathered-winged-carnivore-south-dakota

A new dromaeosaurid was found in South Dakota back in 2005 and described a week ago. It's called (unimaginatively) Dakotaraptor and was pretty big; around the same size as Utahraptor at 6 feet/1.8 meters tall and 18 feet/5.5 meters long. It lived around 66 million years ago near the end of the Cretaceous, alongside Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. Evidence of feathers is present on the fossils in the form of quill knobs on its arm bones.

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2015, 10:51:35 am »
It's so bad-ass looking, I thought it deserved a paste here.
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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2015, 11:00:51 am »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbrsQNeEyIg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbrsQNeEyIg</a>

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2015, 11:34:02 am »
*looks at ostriches*

*looks at dakotaraptor*

one has a bad temper and a kick that will break your spine. the other actually thinks you're food and it's biologically engineered to frag you in a spectacular way. with most likely a kick that can break your spine, too.

know what? i'm glad to not live in the cretacious.
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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2015, 05:36:12 pm »
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  NOT MORE FEATHERS!

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2015, 06:11:55 pm »
-pets Ironbite's feathers-
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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2015, 06:43:02 pm »
*disembowels niam then transforms to robot mode and eye lasers the remains*

Ironbite-what did we learn?

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2015, 07:10:49 pm »
That we should add eye lasers to your list of powers?

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2015, 07:56:43 pm »
....you've never met Ironbite have you?



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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2015, 01:20:54 am »
Sorry, Bite, but even you can't beat the awesome power of SCIENCE!!!
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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2015, 07:29:44 am »
Considering that we're all literally made of science, I'd agree that it is quite unstoppable.
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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2015, 02:09:08 pm »
*disembowels niam then transforms to robot mode and eye lasers the remains*

Ironbite-what did we learn?

that you lack a sense of humor?

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2015, 06:23:05 pm »
Considering that we're all literally made of science, I'd agree that it is quite unstoppable.
So we're all made out of a method of finding out what we're made of (among other things)?

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2015, 09:37:43 pm »
Considering that we're all literally made of science, I'd agree that it is quite unstoppable.
So we're all made out of a method of finding out what we're made of (among other things)?

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Re: New raptor found!
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2015, 09:41:26 pm »
Considering that we're all literally made of science, I'd agree that it is quite unstoppable.

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