Fearsome Gigantoraptor is biggest feathered dino::

SYDNEY: The fossil of an enormous "chicken-like" dinosaur has been discovered in China. The one-and-a-half-tonne beaked behemoth is the largest bird-related dinosaur yet discovered.

The picture cracks me up for some reason.

Also, xkcd on velociraptors.

Raptors!

Yeah, I'm not sure what the author/editor of that article was thinking when they put the word fearsome and that picture so close together.

That thing looks wierd

I can just see trying to walk out of a Woolworths carrying a 1.5 tonne 'chicken'. Not to mention a roast taking 72 hours to cook.

thanks for the woman spin on it

Yeah, I'm not sure what the author/editor of that article was thinking when they put the word fearsome and that picture so close together.

Cause look at the bottom pic! It's the size of a T-Rex, carnivorous and would peck your face off. All while prancing around flapping it's poofy little arms.

ooooh oohhhh, PECK PECK PECK, no face!

lol

Cause look at the bottom pic! It's the size of a T-Rex, carnivorous and would peck your face off. All while prancing around flapping it's poofy little arms.

ooooh oohhhh, PECK PECK PECK, no face!

Hey don't get me wrong, I'm sure the thing could kill me quickly and efficiently, it's just that I'd be laughing at it as it did so.

the size of a t-rex, carnivorous, AND, thought to be one of the fastest dinosaurs to exist, the run you down and kill you kind.

yeah, that's kinda scary.

I could take it

Haha, I bet all the other dinosaurs picked on him something chronic.

i´ve always wondered how they can arrive at speed caracteristics from bones only

Speaking of raptors, I'm about 8000 points away from being exalted with the trolls and soon i'll be able to ride their mount.

Yay!!!

the size of a t-rex, carnivorous, AND, thought to be one of the fastest dinosaurs to exist, the run you down and kill you kind.

I'm not sure how big you seem to think a T-Rex was, but I'll assure you it was 'bit' bigger than 4m in height.

you lose

i´ve always wondered how they can arrive at speed caracteristics from bones only

I'm no bone-ologist, but I assume by comparing bone structures in stuff they dig up to bone structures in animals that are alive today and looking for similarities.

Of course it would only be a rough estimate, but barring some extraordinary physiology, the smarty pants scientists can arrive at a general idea from the anatomy and it's supposed motion.



last edited by CHUB at 15:40:04 15/Jun/07

yeah ravn0s, that's like saying I'm 7ft.

it was the first link i clicked on in google. i could find more links proving how wrong you are but i cant be f***ed.

Obviously its determined by counting the number of speed holes in the bones.

i cant be f***ed.

Buttplug jammed in too tight?

I'm no bone-ologist

Unlike your mother OLOLOLOL!

Obviously its determined by counting the number of speed holes in the bones.

That's probs what the holes in its vertebrae were.

Seeing something like that you can better understand peoples arguments about the whole dinosaur>bird evolution.

Got raptor?
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/velociraptor.jpg

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/substitute.png

That's one big f***in chicken.

... thats like one and half tonnes of Mcnuggets right there, bitches.

That s*** would even scare the Colonel.

The Colonels Special Gigantaraptor Hot & Spicy Bucket. A Favourite of Fat c***s everywhere!

LOL at the raptor exam.

Someone simulated and solved the questions in that velociraptor exam:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~beck0778/velociraptors/velociraptors.html

i got a gigantoraptor in my pants

and i'm studying boneology wif ur mum etc

maybe it was really just a dragon!

from medieval times!