Loch Ness Monster-Like Creature's Bones Found

[Sequoia]

WASHINGTON -- The bones of an ancient creature that would've looked like the Loch Ness Monster have turned up on an island in the Antarctic.

Amid 70-mph winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, an American-Argentine research team recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of the juvenile plesiosaur. It was too heavy to be carried out and had to be moved by helicopter. The plesiosaur is a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern Ocean roughly 70 million years ago, according to the National Science Foundation.

The fossil skeleton of the baby plesiosaur is one of the most complete of its type ever found and is thought to be the best-articulated fossil skeleton ever recovered from Antarctica. It was in an area covered in volcanic ash, leading researchers to speculate it might've been killed during an eruption.

Plesiosaurs lived for millions of years in the southern ocean around Antarctica, which, back then, was warm. Adults could be more than 30 feet long, and the creatures had fins with which they could move through the water much the way penguins do.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2717315

[Poll_Blind]

1. Here's the actual link....

here.

PB

[frankenforpres]

2. lol@ 70million years..

earth is only 6000 years old.



scientists crack me up

[piedmont]

6. surely you forgot the sarcasm tag?

[frankenforpres]

17. what do you mean

you arent one of those evilutionists are you???

[Swamp Rat]

20. Who turned on your computer?

:D

[frankenforpres]

26. are you trying to tell me

that the big man in the sky cant turn on a computer. that make me weep

[Swamp Rat]

29. LOL!

:hi:

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. Umm.. your link's bad.

Unless plesiosaurs were English prostitutes, that is.

[Sequoia]

5. Heck, sorry, that computer just jumped around on me.

http://www.nbc4.tv/technology/10510358/detail.html

[uppityperson]

4. that's really neat.

english prostitutes and all.

[blogslut]

7. I Googled Plesiosaur images

I noticed there's one "photo" of a "real plesiosaur" linked on a bunch of fundy/creationist sites. What's up with that?

[havocmom]

16. There are fundy groups who teach others how to make 'museums' to show

man and dino lived during the same times. Really! Kids love dinosaurs, their imagination is sparked by dino remains, so fundies are always trying to connive ways to explain dinosaurs withing their narrow view of earth/creation/time. Kids ask too many embarrassing questions, I guess ;)

There are some self-proclaimed PhDs who make this their life's work. For starters:
http://www.creationevidence.org/

google: Baugh + Creation museums for giggles

[pinniped]

19. Ya, watching the Flintstones is known to do that.

[havocmom]

21. Hmm, maybe Baugh watched too much TV?

Nah, he has found a way to profit from spreading willful ignorance.

[Clark2008]

24. Don't you know?

The Dinos were on the Ark with Noah!

At least that's what some fundies would have you believe.

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

27. I'm ready for a UFO to crash in the daytime in a big city, lets see the goverment cover that up

[alarimer]

8. There is no Loch Ness monster

It was an admitted hoax.

[juajen]

10. Bah, humbug

Next you'll tell me there's no Santa Claus!

[alarimer]

14. It's just one more example of sloppy journalism

And bad science. Since there is no Loch Ness monster, how can this fossil look like it?

[Taxloss]

9. "would've"? "might've"?

What are those grotesque constructions meant to achieve? "Folksiness"?

On a non-petty note, really interesting story.

[xchrom]

11. cool find!

[piedmont]

12. Too bad they couldn't find the skull.

but neat find, overall.

[elfin]

13. Plesiosaurs also lived in the Inland Sea

at that same time until the Rockies rose and the climate cooled over the years. If they were "trapped" in what is now Scotland as land forms encircled them-- they would be the Loch Ness Monster - but they would also be seen on land occasionally to lay eggs - reptiles.

[greenman3610]

15. Dont' be fooled. Satan put them there to test our faith.

[leftofthedial]

18. why the Loch Ness tie-in?

they found a plesiosaur. Cool. They didn't find it in Scotland. Or in an ancient lake. Or in what would have been cold water in ancient times . . .

:shrug:

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Dumbing down in action

They don't think anyone's heard of a plesiosaur, so they stick 'Loch Ness Monster' in the headline. Despite the fact that there is no description of it (less than, say, a unicorn), it seems "Loch Ness Monster-like" is preferable to "marine reptile" or something similar, despite being longer.

[liberalpragmatist]

28. No kidding

And it's not like plesiosaurs aren't known from before.

[npincus]

23. but Linda Tripp is alive?

[porphyrian]

25. I wonder if the fossil's emergence has to do with global warming...

...like the mastodons falling out of the melting permafrost in Siberia.