September 8, 2010
Concavenator corcovatus
A meat-eating theropod with a large hump, thought to signal reproductive fitness, or half a dozen other speculative purposes, has been found in Spain.
And the hump is not the only strange feature of concavenator. On its arms it has knobs that seem like proto-feathers, giving more evidence of the connection between early theropods and birds, Ortega said.
Because of the lack of scales and likelihood of feathers, Sereno said he would put this creature “at the base of the theropod (meat-eating) branch of the dinosaur family tree.”
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I guess he couldn’t have used a rolled up sock.
does that work without pants?
Half a dozen other speculative purposes.
Yeah, I like how they can put such an accurate limit on the number of possible completely-made-up purposes.
The Humpty Dance is your chance to do The Hump
The hell? And we’re kicking out the triceratops?
I think the hump served as a heat sink wind sail that signaled social rank and deflated when aroused.
I guess you’re the expert on things that deflate when aroused…
pretty much the master.
Now I’m pissed off. I’m with Mary. First Pluto is demoted from planetary status, and now they’re saying that triceratops wasn’t. Oh, and now we’re all hot for concavenator corcovatus.
Tump me running.
We need to restore things to the way they used to be.
dinosaurs and planets the way the founders intended.
Amen.
Yeah, or maybe as the discoverers intended. Like, if you find something, your kids can’t unfind it. That’s a rule. I think I learned that somewhere.
Triceratops was found and named and we all know it existed- I went as triceratops for halloween like 3 years running with a ballet tutu around my neck.
This dinosaur, you’d get mistaken for a shark in a dress up contest. Bogus. Don’t kick my dinosaur out for this shark reptile.
You’ll pry Pluto’s planetary status from the far reaches of my cold, dead outer Solar System.
Uranus.
Tump my tutu. Triceratops rocks, and God shed his grace on thee.
What I learned, I learned. Quit messing with what’s what.
And concavenator my anus.
everything I needed to learn, I learned in revisionist history.
Just now got back to imagining “a meat-eating theropod with a large hump.”
Tump me running.