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Kasz216 on 28 September 2009
stof said:
Check the link Kasz. There's an artists rendition of it. The 4 wings refer to the plumage on it's legs. It's still a four limbed creature, just with all 4 being wings, as upposed to 2 or 0 of it's limbs.

Looked at the link.  Thought they meant they found different species.

 

Finding 5 of the same undiscovered animal... in one spot?  That makes it sound even more unlikely.

 

Either way the whole thing reminds me of a Gryphon.



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Rhonin the wizard on 28 September 2009

This is interesting. But a 4 winged dinosaur isn't new. Microraptor was discovered some time ago.



Kasz216 on 28 September 2009

Also, instead of watching Jurrasic Park... it makes me want to play EVO.

Now that was an awesome game.



stof on 28 September 2009
Kasz216 said:
stof said:
Check the link Kasz. There's an artists rendition of it. The 4 wings refer to the plumage on it's legs. It's still a four limbed creature, just with all 4 being wings, as upposed to 2 or 0 of it's limbs.

Looked at the link.  Thought they meant they found different species.

 

Finding 5 of the same undiscovered animal... in one spot?  That makes it sound even more unlikely.

 

Either way the whole thing reminds me of a Gryphon.

I thought it was fairly common to find groupings of fossils, which would make sense for animals that travel in herds or family units. Maybe they were all together for flying lessons. Trying to figure out how their new appendages worked.



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Kasz216 on 28 September 2009
stof said:
Kasz216 said:
stof said:
Check the link Kasz. There's an artists rendition of it. The 4 wings refer to the plumage on it's legs. It's still a four limbed creature, just with all 4 being wings, as upposed to 2 or 0 of it's limbs.

Looked at the link.  Thought they meant they found different species.

 

Finding 5 of the same undiscovered animal... in one spot?  That makes it sound even more unlikely.

 

Either way the whole thing reminds me of a Gryphon.

I thought it was fairly common to find groupings of fossils, which would make sense for animals that travel in herds or family units. Maybe they were all together for flying lessons. Trying to figure out how their new appendages worked.

Groups yes.... 5 though seems like a lot to me.

Usually from what i've seen collections of fossils have usually been like, sites of struggle.

How would these 5 have been fossilized?  Killed by something natural while alive?



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Rath on 28 September 2009
Kasz216 said:
stof said:
Kasz216 said:
stof said:
Check the link Kasz. There's an artists rendition of it. The 4 wings refer to the plumage on it's legs. It's still a four limbed creature, just with all 4 being wings, as upposed to 2 or 0 of it's limbs.

Looked at the link.  Thought they meant they found different species.

 

Finding 5 of the same undiscovered animal... in one spot?  That makes it sound even more unlikely.

 

Either way the whole thing reminds me of a Gryphon.

I thought it was fairly common to find groupings of fossils, which would make sense for animals that travel in herds or family units. Maybe they were all together for flying lessons. Trying to figure out how their new appendages worked.

Groups yes.... 5 though seems like a lot to me.

Usually from what i've seen collections of fossils have usually been like, sites of struggle.

How would these 5 have been fossilized?  Killed by something natural while alive?

A landslip or something could explain it. Would aid the fossilisation and kill a bunch at once.

 

Also, awesome.



ManusJustus on 28 September 2009

If it wasnt a natural event that killed these dinosaurs, then scavengers would have eat from the body and spread the bones around (they tend to anyway).



Dgc1808 on 28 September 2009

That's pretty solid evidence.



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