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  Dharma1 year, 5 months ago

  Interesting, they seem rather large for a burrowing reptile. Seems pretty smart too to have built it with a long entrance and an s-bend..... Not that I don't think reptiles aren't intelligent mind you, i have owned a few that were very intelligent myself.

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  invest071 year, 5 months ago

  "The absence of burrowing has been proposed as one reason why dinosaurs didn't make it," says Martin. "You can't use that as a reason now."

  It is statements like this that define what is wrong with scientists roday. This guy makes a sweeping statement as if this discovery is going to shake the world. All this discovery is about is a dinosaur that is a little different from his comrades. This does not explain dinosaur extinction and it doesn't greatly increase our knowledge about anything.

  Martin has learned to make grandiose and sweeping statements, probably to pump up his own ego and bring more dollars in his direction.

  I still have trust in science. It is the scientists who are unreliable.

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    Taganan1 year, 5 months ago

    invest07 - Maybe the pro-Global Warming scientists are unreliable since the contrarians say they are making grandiose, sweeping statements too.

    It is probable that there were dinosaurs that fit into every niche of the ecology. This find proves that at least one burrowed and it is probable that others did too, therefore it does call into question the idea that absence of burrowing was THE reason dinosaurs didn't make it. Martin simply asks science to rethink the theory based on new evidence.

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  BananaSlug1 year, 5 months ago

  Why wouldn't dinosaurs burrow? Just because they weren't mammals doesn't mean they wouldn't have an equally varied array of living strategies. I'm suprised this is "news." Now, if they find a fossilized tree with a dinosaur nest in it with fossilized eggs, that'll be news. :D

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  nottinghills1 year, 5 months ago

  Doesn't suprise me.

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  nottinghills1 year, 5 months ago

  "surprise" - bad habit

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  NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago

  One question though, I agree about the burrowing theory but I think it goes to size also. Can you imagine T-Rex burrowing???

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  Taganan1 year, 5 months ago

  Consider the size range of mammals and the size range of burrowing mammals. No burrowing mammal that large, so it would stand to reason that other burrowing dinos would be smaller than the one found. Smaller is also harder to find.

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  tchef1 year, 5 months ago

  I think the more we look the more we will find. There probably were as many varieties of dinosaur as there are mammals today. Each specialized in it's own way.

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  david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago

  Not only would size be an issue in terms of burrowing, but so too would anatomy. Animals with arm-like appendages would be better at digging than those with stubby arms. Dinosaurs probably burrowed for the same reason any creature builds a home...survival. It makes perfect sense that creatures burrowed, especially if they used the underground lair as a place to lay eggs. Though this scientist's statements are somewhat sweeping, he is still on the right path. He challenges others to rethink their old assumptions about dinosaurs.

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  PucciPat1 year, 5 months ago

  dang we're still digging up dino bones?

  i would have thought that they would want to leave them in the dirt in the hopes of turning into OIL. maybe a couple of million years later mind you, but OIL!

  heh j/k

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