100-million-year-old plesiosaur reptile skeleton found in Australia's outback
Australian paleontologists announced this week that they have discovered the complete skeleton of an ancient large, long-necked marine reptile in the Queensland desert that is about 100 million years old.
The team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Espen Knutsen from Queensland Museum Network, said that the fossil of the ancient elasmosaurus discovered in the remote McKinley region could hold the key to unlocking other evolutionary mysteries. Elasmosaurus is a plesiosaur that co-existed with dinosaurs during the early Cretaceous period about 145 to 66 million years ago
Knutsen said it is rare to find a fossil of the elasmosaurus preserved head and body together, as these fragments are usually separated after death due to the long slender neck of this animal.
Australia's Queensland was largely covered in a vast and shallow sea, called the Eromanga Sea, during the early Cretaceous period. Fossil remains of marine reptiles, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, are commonly found across the state, according to the Queensland Museum.
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The history of the planet sure is a cool thing.
I want to thank whoever wrote reptile in the title. Thank you pal.
It would be great to see what area look like at that time.
Why do all the Australian news channels have their comments turned off
@chookinathunderstorm3446
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One of the reasons. Protecting vulnerable staff from the modern internet phenomenon of armchair character assassins targeting them within their everyday workplace ( coming out of a new, to Australia, greater world population and more multinational base of viewers through the internet, with mixed and crazy agendas that can be posted and read by all, ever ongoing non stop ). I believe it was introduced after a young woman news reader suffered a mental health breakdown resulting in her eventually taking her own life to escape the sheer weight and pile on of the abuse by these self-righteous bullies.
It's a plesiosaur, Charlie!
@Lambo6fo
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Thank you
Wonderful
Cool!
Brilliant
R.I.P. plesiosaur reptile 🥺🥺🥺🥺😥😥😥😥.... may you go to heaven with God by your side
LOL
What an absolute joke and an insult of peoples intelligence.
Six Chinese police stations in Canada.
@MrWallace484
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Relax
@charlieponcho4475
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6 all-you-can-eat police stations
🤣🤣🤣🙄
It's impossible to say this is one million years old. Carbon dating is very inaccurate. No way of actually checking calculations
@darkclawgreatonenas
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just you saying that tells those who finished grade school that you dont have a clue how fossil dating works...
@justworkingfortheweekend8504
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@@darkclawgreatonenas Then why do I have a bachelor's degree in biology? That was an idiotic comment.
@darkclawgreatonenas
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@@justworkingfortheweekend8504 great, what background do you have in geology, paleontology or radiology? any PH.Ds? no? i will be the first to admit that i am no expert, but just saying 'i have this degree in X so listen to what i have to say about Y' is just dumb...more than a few crackpots and conmen embarrassing themselves that way...
@justworkingfortheweekend8504
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@@darkclawgreatonenas Geology with rocks and fossils. I'm not saying it's tottaly fake. I'm just saying you can't go and check if your work was right in the first place. It's an estimation with no actual answer
@Trythis837
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@@darkclawgreatonenas he is right that there is no way to check the answers. It’s entirely made up. They took a rock and said how old is that? The geologist said it needs to be 100 million years old for our narrative to work so they calibrated their dating technique to that and here we are.
Humans are next in the extentinction line
@charlieponcho4475
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You’re endangering the spelling species
That's an old crocodile from 50 years ago
@gloomyallo1830
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I don't...I don't know if you've seen the full skeleton, but I don't see many crocs with noodle necks.
@Sooooooooooostupid
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@@gloomyallo1830 well if his neck was made out of noodle no wonder he died
Just round it off at 100 million years old? Yeah sure
Science = 1 god = 0
@justworkingfortheweekend8504
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Science can't prove how old it actually is there is no answer key to check it's work.
@meatmachine449
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@@justworkingfortheweekend8504 Have you ever heard about carbon dating? Please do check it our, will broaden you knowledge of the real world
@justworkingfortheweekend8504
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@@meatmachine449 yea I've actually studied carbon dating and like I said it's not very accurate
@darkclawgreatonenas
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@@justworkingfortheweekend8504 which is why it ISNT used for dating most fossils that old, other methods are...
@justworkingfortheweekend8504
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@@darkclawgreatonenas doesn't matter what method you use it's the same thing. No answer key to check if it's right. Just an estimate