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[rapier]

Norway��s First Dinosaur discovered - 2256 metres below the seabed

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-58263.html

"Norway��s first dinosaur fossil is a Plateosaurus, a species that could be up to nine metres long and weigh up to four tons. It lived in Europe and on Greenland 210 to 195 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic Period."


I'm just waiting for the artists impressions of this creature, with imaginative details of eye and skin colour, fantastic calculations of age plucked out of thin air- all neatly presented as fact.

In reality, evidence points to dinosaurs existing far more recently than 200 million years ago. Try 700 years ago- and sharing the earth with humans.

[jaganath69]

[dogbert]

So what made them decide to leave the earth 700 years ago?

Did we offend them?

[jaganath69]

[rapier]

The scientific idea of dinosaurs dying out hundreds of millions of years ago before humans evolved is against the evidence. Its possible some still exist, and at the very least they existed up til a few centuries ago.

For example, Russian scientists have found thousands of Dinosaur prints alongside human footprints, in the same rock strata:
http://www.greenhaw.com/ccbc/dinoref.htm

Pterosaurs still in existence?

"In 1923 a traveler by the name of Frank H. Melland worked for a time in Zambia. He gathered native reports of ferocious flying reptiles. The natives called this creature kongamato ("overwhelmer of boats"), which was said to have lived in the Jiundu swamps in the Mwinilunga District in western Zambia, near the border of Congo and Angola. It was described as having no feathers at all, smooth skin, a wingspan between 4 ft. and 7 ft., and possessing a beak full of teeth. They were usually described as black or red. It had a reputation for capsizing canoes and causing death to anyone who merely looked at it. When showed drawings of pterosaurs

"... every native present immediately and unhesitatingly picked it out and identified it as a kongamato."

http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/kongamato.php

The remarkable thing about this animal is that it was depicted in several cultures of antiquity. Artifacts identified with this interesting pterosaur species include Roman-Alexandrian coins, an Arabia-Philistia coin, a French wood carving, a German statue and coin, several Middle Ages picture maps, and an enlightening sketch of a mounted animal in Rome by the scientists Meier-shown here on the right.
http://www.s8int.com/dinolit2.html

[laogaiguk]

[out of context]

I can't imagine a parody that could match the surreal beauty of this.

Now, I'm an avowed skeptic, and I'm the first person to question elaborate reconstructions based on scant evidence.

However, what you seem to be implying is that in the 14th century, the time of Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, William of Ockham, the beginning of the Renaissance and the Ming Dynasty, the time of the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War and the Great Schism, Norwegians were busy fending off dinosaurs and yet this somehow escaped any representation in the historical record.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

[Alias]

What the heck happened to Rapier?

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[endofthewor1d]

[laogaiguk]

[rapier]

[out of context]

By historical record, I was primarily thinking of people writing down, "We were considering moving to Oslo, but we thought better of it because it really seems like the dinosaur problem is out of control there."

[Bronski]