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D Ghost 03-01-2010 11:07 PM
67-Million-Year-Old Fossil Snake Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs
 
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Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling. This is the first evidence of snakes eating dinosaurs.

?It?s a stunning, once-in-a-lifetime find,? said paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the study. ?We?ve caught one of the rarest moments in the fossil record, which is prey and predator, together.?

Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...#ixzz0gzrHN070
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...babydinosaurs/

SomeCreep 03-02-2010 01:35 AM
thats cool

Farang 03-02-2010 01:35 AM
I like that magazine

NewbieNudes 03-02-2010 01:41 AM
it can't be - the world is only about 2,500 years old remember!

tiger 03-02-2010 01:42 AM
Wired is an awesome mag but what is the big deal with this? I don't get it. Snakes eating eggs, not the least bit surprising.

TidalWave 03-02-2010 02:30 AM
what happened that froze time in such a manner? the snake didnt even run away? it was just frozen in time?

BIGTYMER 03-02-2010 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 16913039)
what happened that froze time in such a manner? the snake didnt even run away? it was just frozen in time?
i was thinking the same thing. what caused it to just stay there.

seeandsee 03-02-2010 04:14 AM
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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid (Post 16912790)
bad snakes :D

The Duck 03-02-2010 05:39 AM
Most epic gfy thread title ever.

AntiChrist 03-02-2010 05:53 AM
Must be a joke. Looks like a plastic dino.

pornguy 03-02-2010 06:08 AM
thats a kool find.

EscortBiz 03-02-2010 06:42 AM
thats rediculious

Kenny B! 03-02-2010 07:22 AM
I didn't read about that in my Jesus books so it must be fake

MaDalton 03-02-2010 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by NewbieNudes (Post 16912988)
it can't be - the world is only about 2,500 years old remember!
God buried this to confuse us

Scott McD 03-02-2010 07:45 AM
Jurassic Park 4 will now be in the making...

Dirty Lord 03-02-2010 07:54 AM
fucking snake

tranza 03-02-2010 08:02 AM
This is interesting..nice read!

Choopa Phil 03-02-2010 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 16913039)
what happened that froze time in such a manner? the snake didnt even run away? it was just frozen in time?
landslides can move at incredible speeds, watch the discovery channel :)

EdgeXXX 03-02-2010 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by TidalWave (Post 16913039)
what happened that froze time in such a manner? the snake didnt even run away? it was just frozen in time?
Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGTYMER (Post 16913078)
i was thinking the same thing. what caused it to just stay there.

According to the article:

"Unluckily for the snake, that moment was frozen in time because a landslide buried the site right then, Wilson said".

fuzebox 03-02-2010 08:28 AM
I'm always disappointed by the fact that I can't tell the difference between a fossil and a rock :1orglaugh

Chosen 03-02-2010 08:36 AM
Interesting :thumbsup

kristin 03-02-2010 09:07 AM
That's a pretty cool find.

borked 03-02-2010 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by tiger (Post 16912990)
Wired is an awesome mag but what is the big deal with this? I don't get it. Snakes eating eggs, not the least bit surprising.
from the publication:
Quote:
Snakes first appear in the fossil record towards the end of the dinosaur era, approximately 98 million years ago. Snake fossils from that time are fragmentary, usually consisting of parts of the backbone. Relatively complete snake fossils preserving skulls and occasionally hindlimbs are quite rare and have only been found in marine sediments in Afro-Arabia and Europe or in terrestrial sediments in South America. Early snake phylogeny remains controversial, in part because of the paucity of early fossils. We describe a new 3.5-m-long snake from the Late Cretaceous of western India that is preserved in an extraordinary setting?within a sauropod dinosaur nest, coiled around an egg and adjacent the remains of a ca. 0.5-m-long hatchling. Other snake-egg associations at the same site suggest that the new snake frequented nesting grounds and preyed on hatchling sauropods. We named this new snake Sanajeh indicus because of its provenance and its somewhat limited oral gape. Sanajeh broadens the geographical distribution of early snakes and helps resolve their phylogenetic affinities. We conclude that large body size and jaw mobility afforded some early snakes a greater diversity of prey items than previously suspected.
So I guess, it's the rarety of the find that is novel, as well as it being a 3.5m snake that cannot dislocate its jaw "eating" 0.5m hatchlings.

Deej 03-02-2010 01:47 PM
This is not my thread...

Imortyl Pussycat 03-02-2010 01:57 PM
very cool, thanks for sharing

Konkan 03-02-2010 02:07 PM
That`s an awesome discovery

scriptguy 03-02-2010 02:09 PM
extraordinary they found a couple of rocks and think it was a snake and some dinosaur eggs.

fatfoo 03-02-2010 03:31 PM
67 million-year-old?

How can they tell the age? That's impossible.

VeriSexy 03-04-2010 12:23 AM
That is damn cool

BIGTYMER 03-04-2010 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by EdgeXXX (Post 16913559)
According to the article:

"Unluckily for the snake, that moment was frozen in time because a landslide buried the site right then, Wilson said".
Ahh! Makes sense now. :)

DefaultMan 03-04-2010 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 16913444)
God buried this to confuse us
Damn, he must be a real jerk

Fucksakes 03-04-2010 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by fatfoo (Post 16914807)
67 million-year-old?

How can they tell the age? That's impossible.
absolute dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, relies upon the availability of enough organic material being present in the fossil to measure a radioactive isotope and its by-product, carbon-14. Since the rate of expiration of the isotope is known to be constant, the scientist can tell a fossil's age by comparing the amount of isotope present to the amount of the by-product. This method can be used to date fossils up to 40,000 years old. Older specimens are dated by measuring other by-products, such as uranium-235.

google makes me look smart

Raf1 03-04-2010 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by SomeCreep (Post 16912982)
thats cool
yes, it is :)

CaptainHowdy 03-04-2010 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by NewbieNudes (Post 16912988)
it can't be - the world is only about 2,500 years old remember!
:1orglaugh ... You've had an inaccurate religious upbringing.

TGThomas 03-04-2010 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by NewbieNudes (Post 16912988)
it can't be - the world is only about 2,500 years old remember!
actually by creationism its more like a little over 6000 years old

borked 03-04-2010 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by TGThomas (Post 16919927)
actually by creationism its more like a little over 6000 years old
Has there been a sighting of a practicing Christian on GFY :upsidedow

La_Sexorcist 03-05-2010 02:54 PM
That's awesome, thanks for the link :)

Kool Kelly 03-05-2010 05:24 PM
awesome!!!

Overload 03-05-2010 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by NewbieNudes (Post 16912988)
it can't be - the world is only about 2,500 years old remember!
R.I.P. gods creation - VIVE LA EVOLUCION! :thumbsup


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