Futalog-wha?

As per this article from the BBC, apparently some science-types in that other hemisphere found some new dinosaur bones. Isn't that great? Obviously, they're calling it the "futalognkosaurus" (pronounced foo-ta-long-
koh-sohr-us). I mean, the really good names are already taken.

The diagram to our right displays the bones that they found, leading to such exclamations as "It's like a whole lost world for us," and "It's among the biggest dinosaur finds and the most complete for a giant dinosaur."

I'm counting six bones over there. Six. That's all it takes to be one of the "most complete for a giant dinosaur?" We really have lowered our standards...back in my day, we had to assemble an entire limb of a paleontological find before we started including it in the upper echelon of completeness for "giant dinosaurs."

2 jabberwocks:

Unknown Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:20:00 AM  

That is most definitely my new favorite dinosaur name.

Alisha Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:23:00 AM  

I think they just got the picture wrong. The dinosaur actually has a short thick neck that connects to the pelvis and not much range of motion since it only has 8 bones total. Now that would be an interesting-lookin' dinosaur!

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