'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered
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#2Nature has an order.
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#3We need to clone these beasts. Would love to have grilled dino meat some day!
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#4We need to clone these beasts. Would love to have grilled dino meat some day!
What could possibly go wrong?
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#5Does anyone else here ever wonder if some of these "new" dinosaurs are really just re-discoveries of known dinosaurs? The article even mentions that the skeletal remains are incomplete. What if a number of these sauropods are really all the same species, albeit at different stages of their life? Is size alone enough to create a new classification? Perhaps growth continued throughout the life of a sauropod, and the largest ones were just the oldest?
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#6We need to clone these beasts. Would love to have grilled dino meat some day!
Well, that's one reason to bring back extinct animals from hundreds of millions of years ago.
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#7We need to clone these beasts. Would love to have grilled dino meat some day!
Why bother, it'll taste like chicken anyway...
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#9So what's their secret? How did they manage to feed themselves? Were they living sparsely? Was bioshpere denser then? Were they capable of eating just about anything?
And how was such massive size selected for? Is it just a matter of warmer climate and a feedback loop with larger and larger predators?
Re: 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered
#10Does anyone else here ever wonder if some of these "new" dinosaurs are really just re-discoveries of known dinosaurs? The article even mentions that the skeletal remains are incomplete. What if a number of these sauropods are really all the same species, albeit at different stages of their life? Is size alone enough to create a new classification? Perhaps growth continued throughout the life of a sauropod, and the la…
Sure it's possible.
The scientists that study this kind of thing try to check for similarities and classify them as the same or different when appropriate.
They probably classify them as different if the time they lived (based on the surrounding rock they were found in) or their bone structures is sufficiently different from anything previously discovered.
It's also a lot easier to merge two classifications rather than split a group into two.