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Darwinopterus: New flying dinosaur discovered that could fill evolutionary gap | Daily Mail Online
quote: quote: quote: New intermediate... pretty cool. They go on about modular evolution and the possibility of its involvement in human evolution.
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3974 Joined: |
Thread copied here from the Pterodactyl Intermediate thread in the Links and Information forum.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Eeek! That is some crap science reporting!
It could also explain how mammals and humans evolved new body parts so quickly after dinosaurs died out in the Ice Age. The {two-foot long} flying dinosaur {O RLY?) then used its powerful head and long jaw with rows of 15cm {six-inch} fangs to tear chunks of flesh from its victims.
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Eeek! That is some crap science reporting! Word. its not even a dinosaur >.< And the stuff about human evolution seemed to just be sensationalizing... I didn't even want to post the title of the article. BUT... I do think that finding another intermediate is pretty cool.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2477 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
Daily Mail "journalist" writes: The discovery shows that large parts of dinosaurs bodies such as the head and body 'morphed' rapidly over a short period of time. This dispels Darwin's theory that small body parts such as a finger nail or tooth change gradually and could explain how humans developed so quickly from mammals. Scientists believe that this controversial type of 'modular evolution' will prove that there were hundreds and thousands more dinosaurs alive that have never been discovered. It could also explain how mammals and humans evolved new body parts so quickly after dinosaurs died out in the Ice Age. Interesting stuff, CS. Not your fault, of course, but the Daily Mail is one of our crappiest British rags, unfortunately. This particular "journalist" seems to think that humans are no longer mammals, and that dinosaurs died out in the ice age. But, thanks to the Royal Society, we can read the actual paper in an online-before-print publication from yesterday.
Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2477 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
Coragyps writes: Eeek! That is some crap science reporting! I see you beat me to it while I was reading the paper (link above).
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2697 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
There's a better article here, from ScienceDaily: they stayed away from dinosaurs, the Ice Age and human evolution.
The article also has a picture of Darwinopterus hunting an Anchiornis (the primitive bird that predated Archaeopteryx): I thought that was a nice touch. -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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tuffers Member (Idle past 5275 days) Posts: 92 From: Norwich, UK Joined: |
Hi Catholic Scientist
I just want to thank you for posting the link to the Daily Mail article. I haven't laughed quite so much at someone's complete ignorance for ages.
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Larni Member (Idle past 163 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Makes me proud to be British
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1024 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
If you want to keep on laughing, just read the Mail regularly or, better yet, check Mail Watch for updates on their most ridiculous articles. A quote from Mail Watch's most recent blog post says all you need to know about the highbrow quality of this paper:
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tuffers Member (Idle past 5275 days) Posts: 92 From: Norwich, UK Joined: |
Thanks for that Mail Watch link, I'll put it straight in my "favourites".
Before we get slapped on the wrist for going off-topic, the funniest (or most disturbing) thing I ever saw in the Daily Mail was about 10 years ago. It was during the big media scare about paedophiles running amoke in society. There was a huge front page article about how terrible child pornography is (and I certainly don't disagree on that, although the whole paedophile thing was over-hyped) but then in the Health Section on the centre pages they had a full centre-fold photograph of a naked man holding a naked child against his genitals! I have no idea what that is supposed to do with the subject of Health! The photo was very styled and obviously supposed to be a something the readers would enjoy looking at. What the *@$# was going on there?!? Your account of their obsession with a 3-year-old girl only seems to emphasise that something very disturbing is going on at that paper.
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Dang. I just thought the find was neat. I'd never heard of the Daily Mail before, it was just a link from a link.
I realized the shittiness of the article, but didn't think it become the focus of the thread. Thanks to those who supplied the better links. And your welcome to those who got a laugh.
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Perdition Member (Idle past 3237 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: |
Dang. I just thought the find was neat. I agree, and I was worried that some of the posters laughing at the link would come across as laughing at the find itself. I'm glad to see that isn't the case.
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