Thursday, July 24, 2008

Gojira!

Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton: "TOKYO (AP) - Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.

The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus—related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus—from a chunk of sandstone they dug up in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, said Takuji Yokoyama, a spokesman for the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, a co-organizer of the joint research project.

'We were so lucky to have found remains that turned out to be a complete set of all the important parts,' he said."

4 comments:

pattinase (abbott) said...

Tomorrow?

Doc Quatermass said...

Japanese name for Godzilla.

Doc Quatermass said...

When my wife's parents went to live on the planet of the "saved" about 25 years ago, my father-in-law told me God put the dinosaur bones in the ground to fool man (he never explained why) and that they've found everyone's bones except for Jesus Christ. And my in-laws are pissed at me because I've told them that most of the things they foolishly believe make them idiots, it's not just my wrongheaded "opinion."

Doc Quatermass said...

tarbosaurus - didn't Fred Flintstone covet owning one of those. A convertible? Two seater? And Wilma took it out and scratched it. No wait that was Laura Petrie scratched Rob's Tarantula in the Scratch My Car and Die episode. Buddy: You know what's wrong with bucket seats? Everybody has a different sized bucket.