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A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says
- pvg 3y agoIt's touched on in the article but some more background on the older and more recent history of this beast. https://carnegiemnh.org/the-strange-saga-of-spinosaurus-the-semiaquatic-dinosaurian-superpredator https://carnegiemnh.org/the-strange-saga-of-spinosaurus-the-... It's a bit like if someone made up a controversial fossil find for a movie (found, gigantic and crazy-lookig, destroyed in war, found again, raging nerd debates for a century, etc) except real.
- bediger4000 3y agoAfter reading some paleontology primary sources, I'm inclined to regard pop sci articles like this as trifles. For each and every paleotontological theory, there is automatic gainsaying. Emphasizing the opposition part of the gainsaying is a mistake. Usually, opposition signifies problems with the original theory, but in paleontology, so much is unknown that an opposing theory means almost nothing, except that another interpretation can be summoned to explain the fossil.
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- trimethylpurine 3y agoHard scientists call it soft science.
- Sj0505 3y agoInteresting Read..!
- gdcbe 3y agohttps://archive.is/jS5Ww https://archive.is/jS5Ww