In the front opening it had cutting teeth, but it lacked the back molars
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Nigersaurus taqueti and Sarcosuchus imperator
Avi Blizovsky
A 110-million-year-old herbivore whose mouth resembles the wide mouth of a vacuum cleaner was discovered in the Sahara desert and its existence was revealed Thursday by National Geographic. discover it, Paul Serano, named the elephant-sized animal Nigersaurus taqueti as the name of the African country Niger in which the French paleontologist Philippe Taquet was discovered. Sarno, National Geographic's in-house researcher and paleontologist at the University of Chicago, said that the first evidence of the existence of a nigrosaurus was found in the XNUMXs, and now researchers have succeeded in reconstructing its skull and skeleton.
While the mouth of the Nigrosaurus is shaped like the wide mouth of a vacuum cleaner, it lacked most of the teeth that grind food. The 9-foot-long Negrosaurus had a light skull that was kept close to the ground so it could graze like a cow. Sarno described him as the younger cousin of the North American dinosaur - Diplodicus. Its broad snout contained over 50 rows of incisor teeth arranged closely across the front of its jaw. Behind each tooth were arranged spare teeth in case one breaks.
Using CT scanners, the researchers were able to study the internal structure of the animal's skeleton, where the direction of the canals helped them maintain balance despite the low position of the head. They reported. Nigrosaurus also had a spine that contained more air than bone. "The vertebrae were so weak that it's hard to imagine them coping with the stresses of everyday use, but we know they did it, and even did it well," said Jeffrey Wilson, a professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the discovery team.
The anatomy of the dinosaur and its lifestyle will be published in the November 21 issue of the journal PLoS ONE - the online journal of the Public Library of Science, and in the December issue of National Geographic. The first bone of the Negrosaurus was discovered in the XNUMXs by the French paleontologist Tacquet, but the species itself was not named at that time. Sarno and his people honored the previous works by naming the species after Taka. The research was partially funded by National Geographic.
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Oh, how every article related to the distant past straight away leads to an irrelevant discussion about the question of God's existence. Regarding the development of the earth, for those who do not know the history of research, it all started with the help of geologists who observed a lot about geological processes around them. Only 18 years they said to themselves if it takes that long for one layer of soil to be layered in the ground.... think about the immense depth of the earth and you will come to the conclusion that it is about millions of years or more and not thousands of years
It is interesting to know how long any visible of any kind will be fossilized, fuel and power between the drugged up religious stupidity and the advocates of the theory of development. Any religious argument based on ancient books, such as the Bible and the like, is neither better nor worse than any scientific argument in the matter of development. No human being witnessed the creation of the world, including not the writers of all the religious books of all kinds, who are all mentally retarded and useless, and even the writers of the Bible You did not witness the creation of the world. The writer of the Torah wrote everything he heard and everything he thought of.
He can easily pump evolution into him for breakfast!! That Shrek won't be filled with evolutionary gases and release some Darwinists into the air along with some cool ones who don't care to talk about where evolution decided to put them here!!
This is one of the most pointless debates ever in all of humanity.
Internalize: "There is no God!", why? "Because he doesn't exist!", and maybe he does exist? "Then let me jump!", he is now terribly angry because of what you said about him! "Let him go look for someone to shake him"
I still didn't understand how a herbivorous dinosaur could eat plants without molars... and what is this vacuum cleaner mouth helper?
Every finding we find will be denied by the believers of evolution. It doesn't matter...Moreover- regarding the age of the world, there is no proven way to know it for sure, only conjectures. More than that- in the Holy Scriptures there are also mentions of worlds prior to ours.
Jonathan, from now on you can claim that this finding contradicts the theory of evolution. Because we know that vacuum cleaners have only developed in the last 50 years.
to Jonathan
Is the fact that you didn't rush to categorize the news as something that happened only a few thousand years ago instead of a hundred and ten million years just a coincidence or does it indicate a refreshing change of direction?
Sabdarmish Yehuda
To my father.
Is the fact that this time you did not rush to categorize the news as "proof" of the theory of evolution, is it only coincidental or does it indicate a refreshing change of direction?