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Meat-Eating Dinosaur Had Bird-Like Breathing System

ns.umich.edu — The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.

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  • granolajoe, on 09/29/2008, -0/+47I bet Sarah Palin could ride it
  • speedk0re, on 09/30/2008, -0/+29i bet John McCain Did ride it
  • agsinger, on 09/30/2008, -0/+23color was leviathan green: http://i27.tinypic.com/2h6yet5.jpg
  • cawfee, on 09/30/2008, -8/+22***** you, two of my friends died due to their bird-like breathing systems.
  • Batfishy, on 09/30/2008, -0/+12How was their unusual breathing system affected by saddles?
  • veriix, on 09/30/2008, -0/+9If one ever did I bet your opinion would change quickly.
  • pcgeek101, on 09/30/2008, -2/+11I bet you can't paint flames on a dinosaur.
  • pcgeek101, on 09/30/2008, -4/+12But will it run Crysis?
  • EpicSelekta, on 09/30/2008, -0/+7Convergent evolution... their sweat glands aren't related to ours and don't function much like ours but they serve the same end purpose...
  • craftyguy, on 09/30/2008, -1/+7Could the pic in the article be much smaller?

    Bigger pics or it didn't happen?
  • barstegry, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6Bet it tasted like chicken.
  • KnightMareInc, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6I wonder if Larry Martin will continue to say if such a link doesnt exist.
  • Filipp0, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6That was actually McCain's father's pet
  • GordonFree, on 09/30/2008, -1/+7I see what you did there.
  • GordonFree, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6Bird-Eating Breathing System Had Meat-Like Dinosaur
  • mogdor, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5Well a dinosaur never pooped on my head so I like them better.
  • oveedrx, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5sarah palin calls these , man eating dinosaurs
  • Doctype, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5God is so creative! ;)
  • veriix, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5Did you think of that while you were sitting in the corner crying as your girlfriend beat off two other guys?
  • moedawg, on 09/30/2008, -1/+5Damn you for beating me to it.
  • MattB123, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4But what if they are affecting our education system?
  • ChileanGoD, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4Just dont mention this to the birds so they dont get any wild ideas.
  • NuclearBunny, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4uh.. Birds have sweat glands??
  • DrDustbunny, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Wait, Birds breath funny?
  • shortyjacobs, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4I accidentally A WHOLE DINOSAUR!!!
  • abajaj2280, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3I could imagine Palin reading this as "Man-Eating Dinosaur Had Bird-Like Breathing System"

    of course, humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
  • inactive, on 10/01/2008, -0/+3The only way to deal with the stubbornly anti-reality is ridicule. They will continue to be antagonized, made fun of and ostracized until they pack up and return to their churches where they belong.
  • imakethenews, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Alan Grant wasn't that far off.
  • floejoe, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2Hmm... So the theory of evolution makes a prediction on the type of transitional fossil that should be found 30 years prior to its' finding. Thirty years later an actual fossil is found, thereby verifying once again the validity of the theory of evolution. The power of science.

    Now let's see ID make a verifiable and valid prediction about the world.
  • GordonFree, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3Bet he would say the same thing about you.
  • pandaboy99, on 09/30/2008, -5/+7But that's impossible seeing how God put those fossils to test our faith. Oh God.. what a prankster you are!
  • Hetman, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3I think everyone needs to stop antagonizing creationist. It just seems to make the problem worst. And what makes it even worst is when you add politics into the mix. I know most of digg hates Palin. That is fine I would never vote for her or McCain either. But seriously it would be nice to read one science article with out getting into a religious argument. As long as they are not effecting our education system, creationist should just be ignored. Debating them at all just gives the a false idea that they have a logical argument with facts. It just seems to cause more harm than good.
  • btattersall, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2Wait, don't you mean
    "Meat-Eating Dinosaur fossil that god placed in the ground Had Bird-Like Breathing System because it was made at the same time as dinosaurs, and birds, and people."

    ??
  • Shiftgood, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1^ yucks
  • montanask8, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I cant believe that this was made public
  • tbredofsin, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1This is not surprising, considering how closely related birds and dinosaurs are (Google: Terror Bird). Still cool!
  • sab0tage, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I read the title as "Man-Eating Dinosaur" which means it's time for me to go to bed :(
  • nemodot, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Hey, I live very near to Colorado River, cool. Patagonia is full of dinosaur fossils, I remember a Series of documentaries by the discovery channel in the 90's "PaleoWorld" with some of them taking place on my country.
  • Kosh, on 09/30/2008, -4/+5They needed go-karts.
  • GordonFree, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2Please keep posting this in every digg.
    It never gets old, I always laugh like a crazy bitch.
  • Treshnell, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2Wouldn't it be "Birds have meat-eating dinosaur-like breathing system?"
  • bbqsalad, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I thought that was always called "being a filthy whore" hmm
  • TenMinuteParty, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Dr. Alan Grant figured this out back in the 90's. OLD.
  • bullhead2007, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Weird. The only gland I've seen on a bird is the one ***** comes out of.
  • twelfthofmarch, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Hold on wait a minute, does that mean they sing like birds, but with slightly larger lungs they may have sounded like Aretha Franklin?
  • carl25, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1flying dinosaurs are ***** scary
  • slapthemonkey, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Facts like these are fascinating and makes me wonder like a child
  • Hetman, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1If they are affecting our education system the best thing to do would be either to protest the methods they are using, and or as much as I hate to say it create some legislation separating science and philosophy in our schools. Which you would thing would be under the whole separation of church and state, but it does not seem to work that way.
  • Hetman, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I always heard that was called sking. Not that I have ever practiced it, the idea itself is just not something I like.
  • NegativeDigg, on 10/06/2008, -0/+0You know, there's a issue facing many Americans today that I know concern a great number of us. According to gallup polls 1 in 12 Americans are unaware of a certain avian variety.
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