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A new species of spiky-headed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah, the oldest of its genus ever found in North America. Akainacephalus johnsoni is 75 million years and like its cousin, the Ankylosaurus, had an armored body and an imposing club tail.
The dinosaur's scientific journey began 10 years ago in 2008, when a paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management found what appeared to be a fossil site at the Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. A hotbed of prehistoric discovery, the Kaiparowits has been called "dinosaur Shangri La." The National Momument was recently shrunk through an order from President Trump, and some of its former land has now been purchased by a mining company.
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New Spiky-Headed Armored Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Was Basically a Tank
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @02:58PM (3 children)
President Trump, in his evil cunning, handed exactly that fossil hotbed over to oil interests.
Or didn't he?
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:42PM
No, His Orangeness gave it to a mining company. Stop spreading fake news!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:55PM
He has A CUNNING PLAN!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:57PM
Yeah, we're going to need some official input from realDonaldTrump on the subject of dinosaurs, since as of now, the number of dinosaur-related questions Sanders has answered at press briefings is embarrassingly low. Do they make better quality oil or coal? Can we clone them and use them for border security? How big of a wall do we need to keep them contained? Will we impose tariffs on foreign-made dinosaurs? Can we outfit them with Cyber for use in the military? The dinosaur economy has so many unexplored possibilities
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:54PM
I was surprised to discover that park is only 20 years old. Gonna take a little while to discover the "natural boundaries"
Note that Yosemite was a "cool place to visit" for about 70 years before a dam ruined the Hetch Hetchy valley, with only modest controversy, so apparently even 70 years isn't long enough to determine the true boundaries, surely 20 years isn't enough time.
Just saying, its not quite as controversial as filling in the grand canyon to make a really big Panera or CostCo parking lot, or something like that.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by fishybell on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:58PM (3 children)
The news here in Utah was always "Federal Overreach."
For many Utahns the national monuments were always wrong, in particular because they were created by Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.
That said, it's despicable how much of the debate was slanted on "the locals know best how to manage the land," when they were actively, and publicly advertising how much they wanted to let mining, fracking, and drilling in.
The whole point of the national monuments wasn't to take away the rights of the locals, but to preserve pieces of the country that were exceptionally unique from a natural standpoint and a historic standpoint. There was never any interest in mining, fracking, or drilling until the national monuments were made. Until then the only interest was in ranching.
The documents creating the monuments were crafted in a particular way to explicitly allow for the continuation of ranching, but because "the liberals" and "the feds" were the ones creating the monuments, the land suddenly got attention. The only reason any mining is being planned now is because of Utah politicians' irrational behavior when it comes to the other side of the aisle.
The talking points were always based on "the locals don't want this," but it was because of local lobbying that anyone in DC even noticed the land was worth protecting.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @05:44PM (1 child)
It has been purchased by a mining company. Someone is putting real money into it. That supersedes any political silliness Utahns like to cultivate.
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:35PM
Sure, a mining company bought it because politicians put it up for sale and advertised it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 30 2018, @12:59PM
Sounds like the effort backfired. I wonder if people will ever figure out that anything that can be done by whim can be undone by whim.
(Score: 4, Funny) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday July 29 2018, @05:43PM (5 children)
Yep, it's amazing. This dinosaur was basically a tank.
Except with an "imposing club tail," unlike tanks.
And it had feet instead of wheels or tracks.
And instead of people inside, it had a spiky head "like a built-in helmet."
And it couldn't fire shells.
And, well, it wasn't really mechanical at all.
And it was alive.
Wait -- how was it "basically a tank" again?
In other news, I'm going to go take a bath now with my rubber ducky, which is "basically a submarine"...
(Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:41PM (2 children)
For a gamer the word "tank" refers to it's ability to absorb or repel damage. "That guy is so tanky." "The tank should go in first and take agro."
I don't think anyone thinks the dino was literally an armored fossil fueled vehicle.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @12:22AM
Pedantic, I know, but except for the 'vehicle' part, it literally shows the traits: it was armored and it eat what today is considered fossils.
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(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday July 30 2018, @02:16AM
Thanks for that. I'm not a gamer, so this is a meaning I'm unfamiliar with. I still think the headline was going for the armored vehicle metaphor given the reference to armor in the opening... But sure, I'll hope they were making a gamer reference.
(Also, I'm familiar with the more broad non-gamer simile, i.e., "built like a tank." But that's a very different phrase from saying something is "basically a tank.")
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:38AM
A pigeon is basically a flying shit tank.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 30 2018, @01:08PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:10PM (2 children)
Look PM doesn't like Ad-blockers so they throw up a splash saying unblock to read. End rant....
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/akainacephalus-johnsoni-armored-dinosaur-utah-06222.html [sci-news.com]
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-ankylosaur-found-utah-had-surprisingly-bumpy-head [sciencenews.org]
https://unews.utah.edu/newly-discovered-armored-dinosaur-from-utah-reveals-intriguing-family-history/ [utah.edu]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:57PM
With JavaScript disabled, no splash, no ads and the article is visible. They adapted it from the Gizmodo article [gizmodo.com], which has a detailed drawing of the creature's head.
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(Score: 0) by MyOpinion on Monday July 30 2018, @02:26PM
Do you know for a fact that "dinosaurs" existed?
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