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World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies:
The fossil in question is that of an oviraptorosaur, a group of bird-like theropod dinosaurs that thrived during the Cretaceous Period, the third and final time period of the Mesozoic Era (commonly known as the 'Age of Dinosaurs') that extended from 145 to 66 million years ago. The new specimen was recovered from uppermost Cretaceous-aged rocks, some 70 million years old, in Ganzhou City in southern China's Jiangxi Province.
"Dinosaurs preserved on their nests are rare, and so are fossil embryos. This is the first time a non-avian dinosaur has been found, sitting on a nest of eggs that preserve embryos, in a single spectacular specimen," explains Dr. Shundong Bi.
The fossil consists of an incomplete skeleton of a large, presumably adult oviraptorid crouched in a bird-like brooding posture over a clutch of at least 24 eggs. At least seven of these eggs preserve bones or partial skeletons of unhatched oviraptorid embryos inside. The late stage of development of the embryos and the close proximity of the adult to the eggs strongly suggests that the latter died in the act of incubating its nest, like its modern bird cousins, rather than laying its eggs or simply guarding its nest crocodile-style, as has sometimes been proposed for the few other oviraptorid skeletons that have been found atop nests.
Journal Reference:
Bi, S., Amiot, R., de Fabrègues, C.P.
et al. An oviraptorid preserved atop an embryo-bearing egg clutch sheds light on the reproductive biology of non-avialan theropod dinosaurs, (DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2020.12.018)
(Score: 3, Touché) by looorg on Sunday March 21 2021, @07:11PM
Next tourist trap -- Chinese Jurassic Park!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 21 2021, @07:12PM (6 children)
Was it a sudden death from an eruption with toxic gases followed by a rain of ash that buried it?
It'd be interesting to know.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 21 2021, @08:27PM
It was a time traveler who accidentally killed the oviraptorid. The resulting change of the time line is why the western Roman Empire fell so early and also why the Mongol hordes turned back due to the early death of the Khan. The original timeline had the Roman Empire existing well into the 1700s, having extended it's life via the glory of defeating the Mongols. (There was other little stuff in between the death of the oviraptorid and the fall of empires, but those are the high points.)
This kind of thing can be openly shared because you've all been taught to not believe any of it.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 21 2021, @09:50PM
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday March 21 2021, @11:42PM (2 children)
You're anticipating the headline from a million years in the future:
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday March 22 2021, @07:43AM (1 child)
It will take a million years to evolve so there is no more shitting?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @06:44PM
Assuming politicians are the pinnacle of evolution, as they like to think themselves, we'll be talking out of our ass and shitting out of our mouths.
(Score: -1, Troll) by The Mighty Bastard on Monday March 22 2021, @03:11AM
She was shot by niggers trying to steal her eggs.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 21 2021, @07:25PM (8 children)
I'd look for a "Made in China" sticker on the bottom of this so-called fossil before getting too excited.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Sunday March 21 2021, @07:31PM (7 children)
You joke, but China has a huge problem with scientific fraud, and as a result I'm very skeptical of any scientific claims out of China, and you should be too.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Subsentient on Sunday March 21 2021, @10:55PM (6 children)
I see the Chinese bots modded me troll. I was dead serious. The cancer of the CCP has infected and corrupted every aspect of Chinese society. Also google Chinese science fraud. Don't believe me? Watch someone get trapped in a car wreck and nobody stop to help them. People go around them like water going around a rock.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @12:43AM (4 children)
Science fraud is a problem, but not a uniquely Chinese problem. The problem is that more foreigners (and China has greatest world pop. currently) want to attend American colleges than Americans, so you end up with a huge portion of graduate students being foreigners.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @12:53AM (1 child)
Foreign grad students infesting universities wouldn't be a problem if Trippin' Joe finished building Trump's Wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @02:23AM
You think it is grad students that sneak across the border from Mexico?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday March 22 2021, @01:39AM
CCP intelligence agents with pre-provided backgrounds looking to steal shit. Jews in academia collaborating with them to steal our shit for a profit.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday March 24 2021, @03:20PM
No, it's not a uniquely Chinese problem, it never has been or ever will be. What's your point? The facts show that in China, science fraud is far more pervasive than in any other country, and is at times even encouraged by the CCP.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday March 22 2021, @02:00PM
What does a car wreck have to do with the quality of published science? Let's not devolve into an anti-China roast, there are problems with dubious science inside and outside of China https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922799 [ycombinator.com]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Snotnose on Sunday March 21 2021, @08:14PM (15 children)
But I just saw Lester Holt showing him stumbling climbing onto an airplane.
/ actually, Lester didn't show it
// I got it from youtube
/// mostly saying how Lester and friends didn't show it
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 21 2021, @08:42PM
Citizen, you should be looking at the nude lady on the white mare, not at the Emperor who has no clothes.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 21 2021, @08:57PM (12 children)
Our thoughts and prayers are with President Biden as he recovers from this tragic walking accident.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 21 2021, @10:00PM (11 children)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1373414985058107394 [twitter.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 22 2021, @01:14AM (10 children)
And for all that, Biden is *still* a more balanced individual, in several senses of the word, than Trump ever was or will be.
Get this through your head: most people who voted for Biden don't have this bizarre, almost fellatious cultic loyalty to him that you and your kind have toward Trump. We know he's just the lesser of two evils. It's a choice between scrabbling at the hillside versus getting bodily thrown off of it.
What this means is that your obsession with stuff like this doesn't bother us the way you want it to. Instead, it comes off as petty, weird, and rather out of touch. Biden's not the Great White Hope. Most of us, I suspect, hope he stays out of the spotlight and does as little as possible, letting a competent Cabinet and VP do the heavy lifting.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 22 2021, @01:23AM (6 children)
Only in your most deluded dreams is Biden "balanced".
His first days in office were spent telling the world that he was going to undo everything that Trump had done, thereby precipitating the crisis at the border. That's balanced?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 22 2021, @01:44AM (5 children)
If I were given a house, and noticed as soon as I stepped in it that the previous owners had trashed the place, cleaning it up and renovating it would be "reversing everything the last guy(s) did." You seem to think I should leave all the empty beer cans and month-old Pad Thai containers strewn all over in the name of "balance."
Returning to equilibrium is balance Runaway. And, as I've said before, I hold no illusions about who or what Biden is, or indeed the short and medium-term geopolitical trajectory of the United States. I came into 2021 with extremely low expectations of Biden and am still on track to be a Canadian by the 2022 midterms. Biden got us 2 years' reprieve, nothing more, and I intend to make full use of it.
Sorry that doesn't mesh well with your twisted, tribal ideas of "what anyone who voted for Biden must be like." Because, hint hint, we're not "just like you but on opposite sides."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 22 2021, @02:27AM (4 children)
Opening the borders is not "balanced". To be honest, Trump threw out a lot of trash left by the Obama administration, and now, Obama Junior has returned to replace the empty beer cans and whatnot.
WTF does Biden have more children locked in cages after a couple months, than Trump ever had? And, why has Biden refused media access to the "concentration camps" - the cages that Biden sold to the government in the first place?
The border is in crisis, BECAUSE of Biden. He spent a year on the campaign trail telling the world that the border would open if he got elected.
This crisis may destroy the damned fool, and Kameltoe will be left holding the bag.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 22 2021, @02:57AM (3 children)
You actually think the border crisis began with Biden, don't you? Idiot.
The way to solve the problem of illegal immigration is to impose the corporate death penalty, and complete forfeiture of all personal and business assets of all members of the C suite, on any company found employing even one illegal. That will make the "crisis" evaporate instantly. But that will never happen, 'cause the kind of assholes who would hire illegal migrants en masse love them some slave labor.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 22 2021, @03:17AM (2 children)
Fuck no the crisis didn't start with Biden. It started about the time we stole California, New Mexico, and Arizona from Mexico. How stupid can a person be?
The crisis got worse immediately after WW2, and was temporarily solved by Operation Wetback.
Since then, the crisis has steadily grown worse, and threatens to boil over. Biden was just the latest damned fool to turn the heat up under the pot that was already simmering.
Trump actually turned the heat down a tiny bit. Biden comes in, and turns the heat all the way up.
I have zero problem with your solution. Destroy any company found to be using illegal aliens in their labor force. I'm all for that. That doesn't answer the question of who should be permitted to cross the border, or how, or when.
Now, of all times, with the pandemic, the damned border should be SECURE! And Sleepy Joe doesn't have a clue.
https://twitter.com/_RedWalrus_/status/1373498707463655426 [twitter.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday March 22 2021, @02:55PM (1 child)
Immigrants aren't what's killing jobs. Sure, they get hired for the terrible jobs nobody wants, but the good jobs are not threatened by them. Immigrants are a popular target because their cultures are often incompatible with democracy and offensive to westerners, which makes them a good scapegoat. But, in reality, it's automation and outsourcing, but especially automation as of late, that's really destroying jobs. Soon your cashiers will be replaced with touchscreens. All of them, not just the self-checkout lines at the front of the store.
This technology has the potential to make life better for everyone, but as with everything else humans create, it is instead being horrifically abused and twisted into a perverse silhouette of what it should have been.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 22 2021, @04:32PM
Sorry, you are wrong. A brief history of my own employment. I worked construction for much of my life. In the later 90s my work started getting scarce. I looked around, and there were more and more Mexicans doing the work that I was accustomed to doing. Carpentry crews that used to be mostly white people with a few black people and a couple Mexicans were suddenly all Mexican. A black man couldn't get a job, and neither could a white man.
I moved into a factory. That factory employed roughly 50% white, 50% Mexican (mostly illegals) and maybe .5% black. We had one black man who couldn't be chased off with a stick, and one black lady who would come to work for a few weeks, then be gone for months, then come back for a few weeks, over and over.
Factory was bought out by a larger corporation that was determined to follow the law, and to stay out of potential trouble with the law. They used eVerify to verify everyone's eligibility to work. White folk stayed. Our two black people stayed. Almost all the illegals disappeared, save for a couple who managed to forge the right documents. Suddenly, our work force changed to roughly 50% white, 30% black and only 20% Mexican - almost all of whom were legal.
In the years since, the ratios have changed some, up and down. Whites are now about 45% - a bit less than half. Blacks are up a little, probably 35%. The Mexicans are still roughly 20% - and, mostly legal citizens, that is, they are the anchor babies who were born here in the 80s and 90s. I believe that the last illegal alien left a little over two years ago when his paperwork was brought into question. Of course, I can't be certain - we may still have one or two illegals.
Oh yeah. My own maintenance department has changed from 100% white, to a changing mix of black, white, and Latino.
The entire plant is top heavy white and male. I don't see that changing unless and until corporate is brought into court to change it. Blacks and Mexicans can get just so high in the heirarchy, and no higher. White women can almost get to the top, but there is still a glass ceiling, and they won't be considered for the five top management positions.
Multiply my experience across thousands, or tens of thousands of plants and factories across the nation.
Don't expect me to believe that illegals can't take jobs from citizens.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @01:27AM (2 children)
We know he's just the lesser of two evils.
No, he's the more subtle evil, but just as evil, in fact, his apparent competence makes him the greater evil.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 22 2021, @01:41AM (1 child)
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night. You're getting desperate if that's all you have left.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @04:44AM
Wow, you really, project so well!
*Lesser evil*, very funny!
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday March 22 2021, @03:42AM
Hell, I stumbled carrying a bag of groceries last night, and I'm a relatively active fortysomething who didn't break one foot a few months ago.
I'd be more worried if he had been walking unsteadily down a gentle ramp [youtube.com] and claiming afterward that it had (seemed) extremely steep...
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Monday March 22 2021, @01:04AM
I don't see a picture of the fossil in TFA, just an artist's rendering of the dinosaur. This article has the same artist's rendering and a picture of the fossil:
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/worlds-first-dinosaur-fossil-found-sitting-on-nest-of-eggs/ [nypost.com]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday March 22 2021, @02:03AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 22 2021, @02:16AM
tRuSt ThE sCiEnCe
(Score: 1) by HammeredGlass on Tuesday March 23 2021, @03:40PM
Never change archaeologists.