| DINO
HORNS HONKED FOR EVOLUTION according to and article
in International Business Times 8 Mar 2007. Michael Ryan,
curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Cleveland Museum
of Natural History has found a new horned dinosaur Alberta
Canada. The fossil is type of Ceratopsis - the
horned dinosaurs. It has been named "Albertaceratops
nesmoi" after the region it was found in and a rancher
named Cecil Nesmo who has helped fossil hunters. Its horns
are as thick as a human arm, like those of triceratops, but
it belongs to a subfamily that usually has tiny horns. The
fossil has been dated as being 78 million years old, which
puts in between the oldest horned dinosaur in North America,
the Zuniceratops at 90 millions years old and riceratops around
68 million years. Because the new fossil's horns are smaller
than the older fossils, which has really large horns but larger
than the small horned specimens that appear later, it is considered
to be an intermediate form in an evolutionary progression.
Utah palaeontologists Jim Kirkland, who found the large horned
Zuniceratops predicted that something
like the new horned fossil would be found. He commented: "low
and behold, evolutionary theory really works.'
International Business Times article:
http://ibtimes.com/apnews/20070304/new-dinosaur.htm
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ED.COM. Let's think about this argument: first
they found Dino "long-horns," then they found Dino
"short-horns", then somebody guessed there should
be Dino "in-between-horns," and now that they have
found it, this is proof evolution theory works? Truly amazing!
This editor has seen Texas longhorn
cows, Illawara short horned cows, and mid-sized horned Friesians,
(even some polled cows with no horns)- all in the same enclosure
at the Royal Agricultural show, and to think I and didn't
recognize the proof of evolution. (ref kind, variation, degeneration)
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