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Any Charlton Life Dinosaur Enthusiasts?

Exiled_Addick
Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,222
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Then you might be interested in this amazingly preserved Nodosaur fossil found in an oil sands mine in Alberta:

Short article with video:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/15/nodosaur-alberta_n_16627308.html

Longer article with cool photos:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/05/nodosaur-fossil-discovery-science-photography/




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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,068
    Love a good diplodocus me!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,028
    I'm short sighted myself so can really associate with the Doyouthinkhesarus
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    I studied Geology with Palaeontology at college. Was going to university to be a palaeontologist, but circumstances changed and I needed to go out and get a job instead. Have been fascinated with palaeontology ever since I was about five
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,826
    My nephew aged 5 knows the name of virtually every dinosaur found.

    Fair play to him, sorry personally not interested.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,849
    I've been mad keen on palaeontology since going to the Science Museum as a wee nipper.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,849
    Exiled_Addick said:

    Then you might be interested in this amazingly preserved Nodosaur fossil found in an oil sands mine in Alberta:

    Short article with video:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/15/nodosaur-alberta_n_16627308.html

    Longer article with cool photos:

    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/05/nodosaur-fossil-discovery-science-photography/




    That's quite remarkable.
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    Thank you; very interesting & brought back memories of visiting the dinosaur museum in Drumheller, Alberta, in the 1970s.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,237
    Get in touch with Blackpool72, he relates to them.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,222
    edited May 2017
    N01R4M said:

    Thank you; very interesting & brought back memories of visiting the dinosaur museum in Drumheller, Alberta, in the 1970s.

    The Royal Tyrell Museum. That is where this particular fossil now resides. It's an excellent museum and the badlands area around Drumheller is really cool too, even if the town itself is a bit naff.
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    I studied Geology with Palaeontology at college. Was going to university to be a palaeontologist, but circumstances changed and I needed to go out and get a job instead. Have been fascinated with palaeontology ever since I was about five

    I was obsessed with Dinosaurs when I was a kid, but the Palaeontology classes I took during my geology degree were such a let down. Mostly they consisted of looking up pictures of trilobites in books trying to identify which one of the thousands of species the fossil I had in my hand belonged to, based on how long its legs were or how pointy its head was or some other equally dull feature. Apart from the big skull on display in the Earth Sciences Department's Lapworth Museum , I didn't see a single dinosaur fossil at Uni.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,278
    I took a long time to lose my fascination of them. Dinosaurs and stars fascinated me as a kid.

    I was a hopeless idle sod at school so would never have had the application to study either and kudos to all that do.


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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,393
    interesting prog on the beeb this week .. how the dinosaurs were (probably/almost certainly) wiped out by a meteorite collision with earth and the consequent upheaval to the climate .. it was VERY interesting
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    Dinosaurs are cool.
    However, some are better than others.
    My least favourite is one called the duchateletatops. This ancient fossil is rumoured to have lived in an area which is now known as the Flemish region of Belgium. It is said it became extinct primarily because it had a brain the size of a peanut and could not make rational decisions.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Dinosaurs never existed. How could they if the earth is only 6000 years old?

    *wibble*
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,313
    Lincsaddick said:

    interesting prog on the beeb this week .. how the dinosaurs were (probably/almost certainly) wiped out by a meteorite collision with earth and the consequent upheaval to the climate .. it was VERY interesting

    Saw most of this and was also very impressed. Struck me that if it wasn't for that meteor humans would not have evolved, not in the same way along the same timeline at least. Small mammals, some reptiles and some fish survived the blast. Since then I've been thinking (in quieter moments) that if there's other life forms in the universe maybe they're more like dinosaurs than humans, or something inconceivable. And all because of that meteor strike. Game of chance isn't it?!
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    we have our own dinosaur on CL...step forward @TCE ;-)
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,641
    I used to collect fossils when I was a kid. My Grandparents lived in Somerset and we used to go to Charmouth near Lyme Regis where you could find loads of them on the beach by the shoreline as the waves uncovered them. There was also a field near where they lived that when the farmer ploughed, used to uncover dozens of fossils, mainly Ammonites.

    There also used to be a place in Knatts Valley, near the Fox and Hounds pub that used to have a chalk face that was good for finding them.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,028
    DaveMehmet said:

    I used to collect fossils when I was a kid.

    Dont need to know about your Cougar targets on a Friday night!!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    ForeverAddickted said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    I used to collect fossils when I was a kid.

    Dont need to know about your Cougar targets on a Friday night!!
    He taught Wayne Rooney everything he knows.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,370
    As DaveM said, I've a collection of the smaller stuff, nothing rare but having something something recognisable from that era is cool, imo.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,852
    swords_alive said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    interesting prog on the beeb this week .. how the dinosaurs were (probably/almost certainly) wiped out by a meteorite collision with earth and the consequent upheaval to the climate .. it was VERY interesting

    Saw most of this and was also very impressed. Struck me that if it wasn't for that meteor humans would not have evolved, not in the same way along the same timeline at least. Small mammals, some reptiles and some fish survived the blast. Since then I've been thinking (in quieter moments) that if there's other life forms in the universe maybe they're more like dinosaurs than humans, or something inconceivable. And all because of that meteor strike. Game of chance isn't it?!
    what I found the most interesting about that programme was the fact if the meteor hit a few seconds later or earlier then the dinosaurs would of survived and we probably wouldn't of existed. as it hit shallow water it knocked loads of sulphur into the air that blocked out the sun which caused most food sources for the dinosaurs to die. game of chance is right.

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,782
    But didn't dinosuars or at least the therapods (T-Rex was one) evolve into birds?
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,915
    Used to draw them all the time as a kid.

    Never met one though.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,852
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    But didn't dinosuars or at least the therapods (T-Rex was one) evolve into birds?

    yeah they did. so dinosaurs still exists. though a few scientists aren't convinced but i think there's enough evidence to suggest they are.

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,028
    Karim_myBagheri said:

    MuttleyCAFC said:

    But didn't dinosuars or at least the therapods (T-Rex was one) evolve into birds?

    yeah they did. so dinosaurs still exists. though a few scientists aren't convinced but i think there's enough evidence to suggest they are.

    Rhino | Giraffe | Crocodile surely all have a bit of Dinosaurs about them...
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,915
    edited May 2017
    Of course they still exist.

    Was in Erith only this morning and saw a Velociraptor outside Argos:

    image
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,434
    not a dinosaur enthusiast, when i was younger i used to like them. Just makes me think of friends...

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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    Macronate said:

    Of course they still exist.

    Was in Erith only this morning and saw a Velociraptor outside Argos:

    image

    Did you ask Ms Meire what she was doing in Erith?
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,184
    I'm a bit of a dinosaur meself and yes I am.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,460
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/nodosaur-3d-interactive-dinosaur-fossil/

    That is mad! It's beautiful.

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