Look at the pretty!

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-14 06:46am

OK, so no one other than me cna appreciate this, but look at what my firend Emma found:

It may look small, but it's the smallest finger bone, Look at the preservation! This is a mid-Jurassic theropod.

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2003-11-14 06:54am

The fascination of a scientific discovery is beyond the looks.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-11-14 07:21am

Ewww! It's a moudly old bone! Didn't your mother never told you not to pick up things from the ground?

Where did you found it?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-14 07:46am

Warspite wrote:Ewww! It's a moudly old bone! Didn't your mother never told you not to pick up things from the ground?

It's a perfectly clean lump of rock, actually.

Where did you found it?

Hanover point, IOW.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-11-14 07:52am

InnerBrat wrote:Hanover point, IOW.

OK, how about a quick geography lesson for us non-brits...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-14 08:13am

Compton Bay:

edit: Just realised the transparency sucks.
The beach near Freshwater

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-11-14 09:34am

Ah, the left-most bucket. Gotcha! LOL
Interesting, none the less.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-11-14 09:42am

thats really cool... i secretly wanted to be a paleontoligist, but my parents would kill me if i did that... stuck with computers

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-14 03:03pm

That'd fetch a couple pounds on eBay. Good show.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-11-14 07:22pm

That's really cool, esp. since theropod fossils are rare. Do you know what species it is?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-11-15 01:37am

Are theropods some kind of dinosaur ?

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-11-15 01:53am

Yes, like Allosaurus or T. rex

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-15 01:53am

evilcat4000 wrote:Are theropods some kind of dinosaur ?

Yeah:

Any of various large carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the suborder Theropoda of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, characterized by bipedal locomotion, large jaws, and short forelimbs.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-15 04:46am

Kintaro wrote:That's really cool, esp. since theropod fossils are rare. Do you know what species it is?

Not a clue, although Steve Hutt is probably hoping it's Neovenator, because it's from very nearly the same horizon. I think the Dinosaur Isle team weer going to head back and see if they could find anything else.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-11-16 01:37am

Woah! Cool. My brother-in-law went digging in...Arizona I think, found the vertebre of...hell, can't remember. It was one of the bigger herbivores though.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-11-16 09:25am

I have a ring just like the one the bone holder is wearing. I love my Celtic rings.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-16 05:26pm

Lord Pounder wrote:I have a ring just like the one the bone holder is wearing. I love my Celtic rings.

That'll be Emma.