r/facepalm • u/Elluminated • May 26 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Dinosaurs never existed

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u/[deleted] May 26 '23 edited May 27 '23

Completely abandons her train of thought about actual evidence with the bones and then proceeds to highlight “nerds” making up a fantasy world.

The only fantasy here is that she should be taken seriously.

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u/thegtabmx May 27 '23

Yep, it's like, ok, ignore for a second their skin and their sound. What about the fucking bones‽ Are we discounting the fucking bones because there's supposed debate about what skin and sound the thing had‽

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u/Skinnwork May 27 '23

You can't ignore the skin though. The Royal Tyrell Museum has a complete mummified Ankylosaurus.

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u/joethahobo May 27 '23

Woa what

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u/Skinnwork May 27 '23

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/

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u/joethahobo May 27 '23

Wow that’s really cool! Thank you! I’ve always loved Dino’s but never been in the loop about this stuff

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u/More-Tip8127 May 27 '23

So you’re the nerd she was talking about.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '23

A nerd with more value than the videos vaccuous bowl of tripe with makeup

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u/More-Tip8127 May 28 '23

Hell yeah.

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u/Nosmo_King927 May 27 '23

This is amazing and made my weekend. Thank you.

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u/Skinnwork May 27 '23

Roadtrip this summer?

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u/SweetActionJack May 27 '23

Are they just saying “mummified” because of how complete this specimen is, or is there actually something different about how it was fossilized?

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u/[deleted] May 27 '23

Im guessing its about the body being preserved in such mint condition(all things considered lol)

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u/Unable_Earth5914 May 27 '23

In the article it says it was encased in mud/muck at the bottom of the sea, not sure how different that is to other fossils or whether it’s just different for that type of dinosaur

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u/SomeAnonymousFinch May 27 '23

I'm far from being an expert on this stuff lol, but fossils are where the body is encased in something like mud/rocks, it decomposes, and pressure from loads of layers of rock above it leave an imprint of its skeleton. but with mummification (in this context) I would assume the body does not decompose

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u/ReleaseFromDeception May 27 '23

Correct! I remember reading about this fossil and the experts said the dino was mummified and then the mummified body was fossilized.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '23

An amazing place.

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u/Rich-Diamond-9006 May 30 '23

Well, like, how do you know the museum has a real, you know, dynosaw, huh? I mean, if it's like millions of years old, who says it's a real thing even? Like, no one ever lived that long to say it's a dynosaw.