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| 'Screaming Roadrunner' Ran Circles Around Dinos | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 5 2010, 09:53 PM (1,123 Views) | |
| TheCoon | Jan 5 2010, 09:53 PM Post #1 |
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| Holben | Jan 6 2010, 09:33 AM Post #2 |
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They can't say it screamed until they find its skull. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Carlos | Jan 6 2010, 01:16 PM Post #3 |
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Again, Spec predicted reality, as the idea of secretary bird like screamers was already canon for a while |
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| lamna | Jan 6 2010, 01:43 PM Post #4 |
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Screamer is a type of bird, it does not matter what this animal sounded like. |
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| Carlos | Jan 6 2010, 01:47 PM Post #5 |
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Indeed; I think the intention was that this bird is a screamer relative, not that it screamed |
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| Holben | Jan 6 2010, 02:49 PM Post #6 |
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Oh. I thought it was about screaming. Was it actually related to today's screamers though? And how do they know it ran circles around dinosaurs? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Jan 6 2010, 05:12 PM Post #7 |
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Because it of it's build. Clearly it was fast. |
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| Holben | Jan 7 2010, 12:10 PM Post #8 |
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So anything that's fast runs in circles? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Carlos | Jan 7 2010, 01:46 PM Post #9 |
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Its not to be taken literally. In any case modern birds like the secretary and the seriemas do use a circulaing motion occasionally |
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| SIngemeister | Jan 7 2010, 04:36 PM Post #10 |
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Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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If it's got one leg it does. |
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| Holben | Jan 8 2010, 12:16 PM Post #11 |
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I apologise, iwas being rather facetious and picky. So, how did it fit in the food chain? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Carlos | Jan 8 2010, 05:04 PM Post #12 |
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I suppose it was exactly like the modern secretary bird or the roadrunner |
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| Canis Lupis | Jan 8 2010, 08:54 PM Post #13 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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So this thing figuritively ran circles around dinos? I read the description on the site, and frankly I'm not seeing it. Could someone please explain how this thing "ran circles" around the Gobi desert's dinos? |
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| Holben | Jan 9 2010, 05:42 AM Post #14 |
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My pont exactly. I think they mean it was able to evade the dinosaurs' attacks. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Carlos | Jan 9 2010, 06:29 AM Post #15 |
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You know how articles can be stupid. Most likely they meant the bird around eating babay dinosaurs, but they thought "around" meant that it walked in circles |
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