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2007-02-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Over 100 fossilised eggs of dinosaur found in MP
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Posted by Fred 2007-02-05 10:19|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Presumably atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were higher then, too, Fred.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-05 10:29||   2007-02-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought this was another George Galloway story...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-02-05 10:47||   2007-02-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 You would need global warming to support a terrarium full of dinosaurs.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2007-02-05 11:02||   2007-02-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Presumably atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were higher then, too, Fred.

Much of the fossil fuels we're burning are the carbon trapped (from the atmosphere) by plants of that era and earlier.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-02-05 11:18|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-02-05 11:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Methane is a much more prevalent molecule and has a greater effect on atmospheric warming the carbon dioxide. I postulate that the dinosaurs grew to enormous size and multiplied in great numbers numbers. This graet race then migrated to an area overgrown with gigantic white beans. The rest is obvious.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-02-05 12:21||   2007-02-05 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 That's it, BrerRabbit! A U.N. grant to "study" your theory is coming up!
Posted by BA 2007-02-05 14:46||   2007-02-05 14:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Do scientists know if the dinosaurs were cold-or warm blooded? last I heard they were cold-blooded, but school's been many years ago?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 15:43||   2007-02-05 15:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, global CO2 levels were likely much lower. It was global O2 levels that were much higher.

There have actually been several periods of higher global O2 levels - the late Permian/early Carboniferous and the late Jurassic/early Cretaceous are two of the most notable with global O2 levels as high as 31% during the earlier period and about 25-27% during the second.

It is believed that this is also what allowed the known periods of giantism in animals, most notably insects.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2007-02-05 16:08|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2007-02-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

#9 As to the warm-blooded/cold-blooded argument, it's become pretty clear that dinosaurs may have been an intermediate step with degrees of both.

Lifestyle-wise, the dinosaurs lived and flourished as if they were warm-blooded, but there is some data that suggests they may have been cold-adapted in certain ways that some cold-blooded animals and insects are (there are reports of some species of beetles flying during snowstorms and it is well-known that insects can maintain activity at temperatures far below freezing in some species).

It's most readily assumed that dinosaur physiologies were probably extremely similar to that of birds.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2007-02-05 16:12|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2007-02-05 16:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Brawwwwwwwk! Gimme the damn triceratops! Brawwwwwwwk!
Posted by eLarson 2007-02-05 16:57|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-02-05 16:57|| Front Page Top

#11 

• The richest dinosaur field in India is in the "Deccan Traps" near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

• About 65 million years ago, a huge mass of volcanic rock erupted from the earth, covering 500,000 sq km in Maharashtra and MP with lava 2 km high. This is exactly the time when all large dinosaur species became extinct.

• A small but ferocious dinosaur, about the size of adult humans, was named Jubbulpuria after it was found in Jabalpur by Matley in 1933.

This also buried some of the richest potential oil reservoirs in India below kilometers of basalt
Posted by john 2007-02-05 17:09||   2007-02-05 17:09|| Front Page Top

#12 A story a couple of weeks ago said they found a huge supply of ancient stone cannonballs in Syria. Someone better check 'em again. They might be dinosaur eggs.
Posted by Penguin 2007-02-05 19:11||   2007-02-05 19:11|| Front Page Top

#13 from teh title, I figured Helen Thomas did an ovary dump...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-02-05 19:14||   2007-02-05 19:14|| Front Page Top

#14 teh.....? shit
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-02-05 19:14||   2007-02-05 19:14|| Front Page Top

#15 teh? You must be raelly smart.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-02-05 20:08||   2007-02-05 20:08|| Front Page Top

#16 of coarse
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-02-05 20:51||   2007-02-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#17 Jeebus, Frank. Ovaries and Helen Thomas...3 words that should NOT go together in a sentence.

Now, who has the steel wool™ to scrub my mental image of that away?
Posted by BA 2007-02-05 21:44||   2007-02-05 21:44|| Front Page Top

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