discoveries that include an enormous, previously unknown carnivorous dinosaur, a new shark species, at least three other new fish and three new trees.
All of the now-extinct organisms once thrived in or around a giant lake 200 million years ago, according to paleontologists who made the finds.
Anatomical features and track marks linked to the dinosaur suggest it specialized in eating and catching fish, including sharks and huge bony fish that, when consumed, would have been "like biting through chain mail," Utah State paleontologist James Kirkland told Discovery News.
just heard on the news abt a new dinosaur being discovered and named. my question is why do we care if they really existed. ok, even if they did, of what benefit is their studies to mankind, all the money, effort and time spent on research, what are these scientists trying to prove or what is their aim of researching. shld we really care if dinosaurs existed or not? its not like theres still some species in existence or they cud ever be brought back to life..
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some even dedicate their whole lives to the elusive tracking of 'big foot' and the 'abominable snow man' theyll soon find some ancient monkey fossils and say it was tht of big foot which lived over 30 million years ago
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yeah, but ppl finding bones and all that, maybe they just wanted to know, to whom or what did they belong to and i goes on like that!!
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format_quote Originally Posted by nevesirth
just heard on the news abt a new dinosaur being discovered and named. my question is why do we care if they really existed. ok, even if they did, of what benefit is their studies to mankind, all the money, effort and time spent on research, what are these scientists trying to prove or what is their aim of researching. shld we really care if dinosaurs existed or not? its not like theres still some species in existence or they cud ever be brought back to life..
Most paleontologists select the line of work because the enjoy it. The pay is poor, but the hours and locations are excellent. Most paleontologists are funded by private organizations. Usually for the purpose of hoping they will make a major discovery that will attract paying customers to the Museum or what ever. Very few if any are paid with public funds.
The big dollar paleontologists work for oil companies. Their locating and identifying fossils in the area is a tremendous help in determining the probable location of oil producing fields.
Most people that pursue a degree in paleontology never get employed as such, they end up as biology or geology professors.
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format_quote Originally Posted by nevesirth
just heard on the news abt a new dinosaur being discovered and named. my question is why do we care if they really existed. ok, even if they did, of what benefit is their studies to mankind, all the money, effort and time spent on research, what are these scientists trying to prove or what is their aim of researching. shld we really care if dinosaurs existed or not? its not like theres still some species in existence or they cud ever be brought back to life..
Why do we care if they really existed? It is called "Knowledge".
There are actually people in this world that like to learn and understand.
Then there are people that have a 3 letter word answer for everything.
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format_quote Originally Posted by nevesirth
just heard on the news abt a new dinosaur being discovered and named. my question is why do we care if they really existed. ok, even if they did, of what benefit is their studies to mankind, all the money, effort and time spent on research, what are these scientists trying to prove or what is their aim of researching. shld we really care if dinosaurs existed or not? its not like theres still some species in existence or they cud ever be brought back to life..
on a more serious note than my previous posts - god has given us the gift of wonder. if you believe in god, the more you learn about nature and our planet, the more you are in awe.
so, i think it's cool.
however, i do agree there are plenty of studies that are silly. i saw a study once, complete with charts and graphs - that made the brilliant discovery that rattlesnakes further north go in to hibernation earlier and come out later than rattlesnakes further south - what a surprise!!
also a lot of studies they do, when you read about them, the group sampled is so small as to be meaningless.
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Another nice thing about fossils is they bring big dollars on ebay and other places, even some nice online Moroccan shops. Moroccans are making good money selling rocks they find in the Atlas mountains.
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900$ for a peice of rock! But i know theres pretty much more weird stuff going for more.
As for the dinosaurs, i find it amazing that there could have been creatures like that at one time. If there was, we should be thankful we were not put with them fend for ourselves! But as we dont know whether there was or not ,i think, we as Muslims should not get too much involved.
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format_quote Originally Posted by nevesirth
whats cute abt giant lizards?
Lol yeah. and seriously dinosours arent going to help us today and they never will...plus..theyr ugly....and i dont even care bout them...only those wierd scientinsts do.
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format_quote Originally Posted by truemuslim
Lol yeah. and seriously dinosours arent going to help us today and they never will...plus..theyr ugly....and i dont even care bout them...only those wierd scientinsts do.
so very ugly, nothing cute or hot about those ugly looking giant lizards, anyway, they create jobs for some scientists..
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well, at least the ones studying dinosaurs are not working on inventing ever more efficient ways to kill people...
keeps 'em off the streets, so to speak.
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