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New Dinosaur Species Discovered ... Largest Horned Dino Found to Date

discoverychannel.ca — A new and larger species of dinosaur has been discovered ... an ancestor of the infamous triceratops. This species is possibly the largest horned species over discovered. What a find!

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  • Googlelady, on 11/25/2007, -25/+20Thanks for sharing just dugg it up!
    • SuperWinner, on 11/25/2007, -22/+6I wonder if he was "horny"? Get it, Horny!
    • alekies, on 11/25/2007, -6/+17I see what you did there.
      • Encablossa, on 11/26/2007, -0/+5Oh please Digg do not dig this up, it is the only thing more ancient than the dinosaurs.
  • vervalsing, on 11/25/2007, -23/+87I wonder when Jesus buried this one...I haven't seen him walking around with his shovel in awhile.
    • SuperWinner, on 11/25/2007, -18/+7Jebus used his magical powers to bury this one.
    • OisinT, on 11/25/2007, -3/+14how'd they fit this one on the arc?
      • Cerebron, on 11/25/2007, -0/+8I think babies/eggs are the obvious solution.
      • macweirdo42, on 11/25/2007, -1/+7Why do you do think there aren't any around anymore?
    • no8286, on 11/26/2007, -1/+9For some reason my father still doesn't believe Dinosaurs existed...
    • ashlocke, on 11/26/2007, -2/+5I believe it was God who buried this one, that big ol' trickster he. Testing our faith and all. ;D
  • sockpuppets, on 11/25/2007, -13/+4If I had to date a dino it would definitely be a horned one.
    • krakkinem, on 11/25/2007, -11/+1I agree completely with that sentiment.
      • Rocketbird, on 11/26/2007, -0/+4What the hell is wrong with you two?
  • thobin21, on 11/25/2007, -3/+43"A ferocious plant-eater"...is that anything like a Vampire Vegan?
  • krabat, on 11/25/2007, -10/+58That's possibly the largest horned species that Jesus put here to test our faith that has ever been discovered.
  • daxsymbiont, on 11/25/2007, -10/+3To burst some bubbles, material engineering proves that most materials found in nature, such as animal tissue, are more stiff and flexible, the smaller they are relatively. That proves why insects are very fast and powerful compared to their size and elephants slow and lame.

    Big Dinos would probably be slow and lame and quite brittle if they fell.

    (those thrillers with giant insects? bollocks)
    • KnightWhoSaysNi, on 11/25/2007, -0/+12And yet, I'd rather take my chances against a cockroach than an elephant.
    • kodax, on 11/25/2007, -2/+4Thats only a theory
      • daxsymbiont, on 11/25/2007, -4/+4only proven by everyday engineering.
        • daxsymbiont, on 11/25/2007, -1/+1and apparently that's not enough for digg..
  • spyd3rweb, on 11/25/2007, -22/+2My horn is bigger.
  • philipkaplan, on 11/25/2007, -16/+1I'm horny.
  • mrjit, on 11/25/2007, -4/+30It's bewildering to hear about things 68 million years old.
    • Darthcactaur, on 11/25/2007, -2/+4Thats why I'd like to think its only 5000 years old
      • 42Vindictive, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Evil Lord Xenu is only TOM CRUISE old.
    • Zbug, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3You haven't been on digg long, have you? Sometimes we'll even get stuff from the nineties.
  • overtoke, on 11/25/2007, -6/+9someone better notify kirk cameron
  • kodax, on 11/25/2007, -1/+12There was another find recently of a large diploducus relative who had bones so frail that its unclear how it raised its head if it did at all. Alot of the bone structure physics tests they have been running on the computer imagined beasts created from fossils have raised many questions such as how Trex could have been a hunter as his body could not sustain a true hunting speed. An interesting theory that exists but not given much creedance is that gravity was much weaker on earth 100 million years ago and has been slowly increasing. The result of this is that animals have been getting smaller over the years. The scale is also based on land, water and air dwelling. The biggest drop off has been animals with flights where the effect of gravity is greatest. From airplane sized 100m years ago to being toy airplane sized. Land animals have been shrinking over the years. From large dinosaurs to large mammals to much smaller mammals today. The water animals are least affected and we still have giant sea creatures..perhaps not as big as the ones that existed previously but still some pretty big ones.
    • DeFex, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2perhaps they were warm blooded and had stronger muscles than the modellers have calculated.
    • Cerebron, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2Or perhaps the air was more dense back then, which would account for pretty much all of those points you mentioned.
      • esbern1, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3the answer to his questions is really that the atmosphere was 40% oxygen, hence why our large scorpion friend from last week was able to exist. oxygen should diffuse through its bod, and with a larger supply, more can be breathed in, and thus it can evolve into larger species.
    • FordSVT1, on 11/25/2007, -0/+7The bones have led scientists to reimagine large sauropods as grazers eating low brush and smaller trees as opposed to the giraffe-like creatures we've traditionally thought of.

      However, the most recent theories surrounding T-Rex indicate that it may have lived in family units like wolves. This has been supported by fossil evidence of group living. The smaller, younger individuals would have had different proportions and would have been able to run down or chase prey into an ambush by the powerful adults.

      I don't think gravity has anything to do with anything else you're talking about though, some pretty simple math can show you that the difference in gravity was >1% lower than it is today, while we've gained several billion tones of space dust and meteorites over the past 100 million years that's a relatively small percentage of the Earth's mass. We've also lost some atmospheric mass into space, though not much. The simple fact of the matter is that larger insects and animals were possible millions of years ago because the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere was greater which allowed animals to be more efficient. most matters of size were purely a result of evolutionary competition.
    • Supurcell, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1The last theory I heard about the T-Rex was that it was a scavenger. It would wander around until it smelled a kill, then chase off the smaller predators and eat as much as it could.
  • punjab551, on 11/25/2007, -5/+0Jurassic Park IV, anyone?
  • n3xu5, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5http://youtube.com/watch?v=wNRsIFKLDBk
    BOOM BOOM akalaca
  • on9star, on 11/25/2007, -8/+1*BEEP BEEP* my car horn is bigger than yours! Whats that? Oh I'm talking about the wrong horns...
  • whoadude, on 11/25/2007, -1/+5I thought it said Eroticeratops at first. The love dinosaur.

    Either that or the badass dinosaur with a heart of gold.
  • djdole, on 11/25/2007, -0/+2largest horned IN ALBERTA, and POSSIBLY the world.
    More rtfa, less sensationalizy
  • TypeEE, on 11/25/2007, -1/+11Creation museum need to make an update to include this one in the Noah's arc's animal list.
  • Neem, on 11/25/2007, -1/+2ugh, does this mean they are going to make a new Jurassic park movie ?
  • zdislaw, on 11/25/2007, -1/+1I always thought it was a relatively mellow dinosaur with a fairly decent reputation. What is it infamous for?
  • JickBahTech, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1That's really cool, but how is a Triceratops "infamous"?
    • gudnbluts, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1It was the sex tape that did it.
    • whandsfield, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1My Dad used to run a convenience store, but gave it all up after it was knocked over by a gang of triceratops... all for a mere $400 in cash... shameful how bad things have gotten these days.
  • danielman94, on 11/25/2007, -1/+13Longnecks don't play withs three-horns.
  • verkon, on 11/25/2007, -2/+1That dinosaur is so yesterday
  • MrESaulved, on 11/25/2007, -0/+5Did they find its saddle nearby too?
  • boflaade, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1It was found six years ago and only the assembly was finished this year. That is a lot of dedicated work.
  • iomegaboy, on 11/26/2007, -1/+7Typical, most comments are trolling for any Christians that might still participate in Digg.
  • esbern1, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1wait how is this bigger, and how is it any different from a triceratops? wikipedia:Individual Triceratops are estimated to have reached about 7.9 to 9.0 m (26.0–29.5 ft) in length
    • chilipeppers4u, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1they're counting the size of the skull & frill as well as total body length.
      Wikipedia: "(Triceratops skull) could grow to be over 2 m (7 ft) in length"
      Article: "(Eotriceratops) had a massive skull that featured a solid frill (this alone was three meters in length)."
      And keep in mind that the 8-9 m body length for Eotriceratops was a conservative estimate based on the size of the 3 m long skull.
  • kpsk, on 11/26/2007, -2/+3Let's bash the Christians! Huzzah!
  • bmc31190, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3IT'S A TEST!!!!

    /religion
  • benburned, on 11/26/2007, -0/+3creation museum picture - http://web.mit.edu/gjordan/www/creation/slides/_DS ...
  • radio1mike, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1Sweet.

    Yes, Can we stop bashing Christians? No one has probably been killed by Christians for supporting evolution, vilified, ex-communicated, thrown out of church-- yes, killed no. Now abortion, that's a different story.
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