Bizarre' Jurassic dinosaur discovered in remarkable new find

Fossil hunters in Chile have unearthed the remains of a bizarre Jurassic dinosaur that combined a curious mixture of features from different prehistoric animals.

The evolutionary muddle of a beast grew to the size of a small horse and was the most abundant animal to be found 145 million years ago, in what is now the Aysén region of Patagonia.

The discovery ranks as one of the most remarkable dinosaur finds of the past 20 years, and promises to cause plenty of headaches for paleontologists hoping to place the animal in the dinosaur family tree.

“I don’t know how the evolution of dinosaurs produced this kind of animal, what kind of ecological pressures must have been at work,” said Fernando Novas at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/27/bizarre-jurassic-dinosaur-chilesaurus-diegosuarezi-discovered-in-remarkable-new-find

He looks a little like a brontosaurus. Cute!

They tried to steal the brontosaurus from our childhood and were successful for many years, reclassifying it as apatosaurus. However, an extensive study published this year has shown that it was a distinct species and it has now been reborn. Long live the brontosaurus.

I know it's wrong, but I can't wait until they resurrect a woolly mammoth!

Genetic Scientists Sequence Complete Genomes of Two Woolly Mammoths
Apr 23, 2015 by Sci-News.com
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A group of scientists from the United States, Sweden, Canada, and the UK, has sequenced and analyzed the complete high-quality genomes of two woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) – one from northeastern Siberia and the other from Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean. The results appear in the journal Current Biology.



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http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/science-genome-woolly-mammoth-02727.html

Fascinating vid!  As like with any new technology, it can be used for good or evil purposes.  If they used it to bring back extinct species (which we should have saved before they went extinct), that would be good.  But sooner or later, the factory farming industry will jump on the bandwagon, push to make it mainstream and then see billions in further profits.  

Cloning humans?  Sure, I'd love for them to clone me except with a good leg and without the gene that keeps me addicted to cigarettes.  But no.  Nada.  That's going too far from a moral perspective.  Actually, so is cloning animals but we're slowly being conditioned to accept it, of which I am proof.