Was there a ‘dinosaur disco’ 170 million years ago in a Scottish lagoon?

[HuckleB]

Scientists stumbled upon humongous 170-million-year-old dinosaur tracks on the Isle of Skye. These dinosaurs are estimated to be the largest animals ever to roam the Earth.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1201/Was-there-a-dinosaur-disco-170-million-years-ago-in-a-Scottish-lagoon

"Some 170 million years ago humongous dinosaurs walked through a lagoon, but their splashy stroll stayed in the past until recently.

Scientists spotted the footprints of these dinosaurs preserved in layers of rock on the Isle of Skye, according to a new paper.

In the Middle Jurassic period, generations of sauropods, huge, long-necked, pot-bellied dinosaurs, walked through a shallow salt water lagoon that is now the rocky northeastern tip of the Scottish island.

Today, "There are so many tracks crossing each other that it looks like a dinosaur disco preserved in stone," study author Steve Brusatte said in a news release.

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Cool stuff!

[Scootaloo]

1. Ask, and the internet provides

[HuckleB]

3. +1,000,000 ... 000

[longship]

6. Sauropods, not Theropods!

The OP says Sauropods. Your pic is a Theropod.

For fucking Christ sake (or other expletive), get your science right.



THIS, is a sauropod.

[Scootaloo]

7. The internet only provides so much. n/t

[longship]

10. Plus, one only has so many opportunities to post a disco therapod.

I don't blame you.


My best.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. So much for "stayin alive"

[Scootaloo]

23. Snrrkt

[KamaAina]

2. 170 million years ago?!

Looks like at least one is still partying on!

[HuckleB]

4. Champ is my favorite, though.

http://www.livescience.com/37012-lake-champlain-monster.html

[longship]

8. That is the Surgeon's photo.

A known hoax. A small children's toy sub with a fake profile.

But even if the origin of the photo was unknown, the science says that there is no plesiosaur in Loch Ness.

1. Loch Ness did not exist when plesiosaurs existed.

2. A sustainable population of plesiosaurs would require a much larger environment than Loch Ness could reasonably provide. Biology 101, people! BTW, a sustainable population would likely be in the thousands.

3. If there was a sustainable population of such an animal as a plesiosaur in Loch Ness, there would be far more than blurry or questionable photographs. There would be dead plesiosaurs washing up on shores. Or other definitive evidence.

Nessy is a fraud. Always has been. Always will be.

[KamaAina]

9. Lighten up, Francis!

I saw dinosaurs and Scotland in the same sentence and naturally thought of Nessie.

[longship]

12. Well, I usually post in these threads with tongue in cheek.

But the Surgeon's photo is such an iconic fraud that my pedantry kicked in.

I apologize. Knowing your posts, I should have known better.

However, those chupacabras are real!


Best regards.

[HuckleB]

11. But not Champ! He's real!

http://www.cryptozoonews.com/champ2013/

[longship]

13. Ogopogo or none of them!

Chant along!

OGOPOGO!
OGOPOGO!
OGOPOGO!

Oops! Almost forgot.
Ogopogo (obligatory Wiki link)

You'll see what's real and what the chump Champ's believe. Nessy? Hah!

It's all Ogopogo these days.

[HuckleB]

14. Oh, cool.

I've been to Okanagan Lake! I missed that history.

Thanks!

[longship]

15. According to Joe Nickel, they are otters.

In Europe, Lutra lutra, the European otter. In the west, likely North American river otter (Lontra canadens).

When they swim, they swim in a line with a kind of a coordinated undulated action which models that of a single, long animal swimming at the surface. Of course, otters nearly always swim near the surface. So when they coordinate their actions, as they are want to do, they model what many would see as a plesiosaur. However, it very well be merely a coordinated swim team of otters. According to Nickel's research, that is what they do.

So Ogopogo is otters.

[HuckleB]

16. Now that makes sense! -eom-

[Logical]

5. The earth is only 3000 years old! This story is pure BS! Nt

[HuckleB]

19. Well, there is that!

[Logical]

20. :-) nt

[Fumesucker]

17. I'm waiting for the set that has obvious contemporaneous wheel tracks

That should prove interesting.


Many years ago something walks across the surface

Of a dark Scottish lagoon

[HuckleB]

18. +1

[Special Prosciuto]

21. That must have happened on a Saturday Night in 1973.

[HuckleB]

24. The plaid is awesome!