posted by
Dopefish
on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:00AM
from the where-the-heck-are-the-badlands dept.
from the where-the-heck-are-the-badlands dept.
Gaaark writes:
"Paleontologists from the University of Calgary have discovered a massive, 70 million-year-old skull of a horned dinosaur: a pachyrhinosaur, to be exact. It is described as a 'rare find': the last discovery of this type in the same region dates back to more than 50 years ago when only a partial skull was collected.
Found in the Alberta Badlands in Canada, its two meter long head had large bony bumps, short curved horns and a large frill at its neck. In her statement, researcher Darla Zelenitsky said, "the skull of this animal has an enormous bony structure over the snout that would have made for a very strange looking individual.
The University of Calgary statement with more details and related links can be found here."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Jerry Smith on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:49AM
It must be extremely frustrating to be dependent on these very rare finds in ones field of work. And after a find like this, would it be more satisfactory for it to confirm or deny the current common ideas?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by neagix on Sunday February 23 2014, @12:08PM
The less guesswork, the better work.
I think that for any researcher - or curious kid - the immediate genuine surprise for a discovery like this is an unsurpassable pleasure; the homework part of doing X-rays and anathomical comparisons comes later and gives work to a lot of other people.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by beckett on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:58PM
Higgs boson had been extensively sought since the early 1990s. It was only recently identified and studied as a thing. however, the confirmation wasn't only a single, simple satisfaction: it generated hundreds of publications and dozens of PhDs. Even if the search ended up disproving the Standard Model, it would have also generated just as many publications
I think any field of scientific discovery is replete with lots of negative data, but it is the positive confirmations that generate the press and are overrepresented in the literature from publication bias.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 24 2014, @02:30PM
Reminds me of my dating years. The journey being its own reward?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Jubal on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:45PM
Can't help but feel slightly suspicious that this happens so close to the premiere of an animated movie where the lead character is a pachyrhinosaur.. Still, the timing could have been better, so tin foil hat stays off for now
(Score: 2, Funny) by kristian on Sunday February 23 2014, @01:47PM
Can't tell if joking or extremely paranoid.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by nukkel on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:49PM
does it run Linux?
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Monday February 24 2014, @02:35PM
In other news, scientists finally discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs... they switched from sysvinit to systemd.