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Re:The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state by hattmall on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:27PM (#33416556)
Oh, you mean dinosaurs! There's basically never been a full one found. The closest one ever was found under dubious circumstances. The process for extracting them is to make tiny chips in rock and casts as you go along pretty much allowing you to shape as desired. The sites are of course highly guarded. Of course the most complete was the ever popular TRex.

Dinosaur paleontology is a religious racket. Sure there was lots of megafauna and their were some large flightless birds with various levels of feathering. Like anything though money corrupts and the money behind dinosaurs is huge. Every kid has toys, books, theres movies, TV shows, museums, etc.

Re:The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state by noduerme on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:40PM (#33416625)
They're not carving stone when digging out the fossils. And the average fossil digger is not Michaelangelo or capable of sculpting a negative dinosaur skeleton out of solid rock. Just imagine hundreds of people on a dig trying to get the symmetry and proportions right. The answer is that the material inside the impression left by the decaying bones is softer than the rock it's encased in.

Sure, dinos for kids are big money, but there's just a massive amount of proof they existed. What proof is there for the world being created in seven days besides a single book of stories invented a couple thousand years ago?

Re:The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state by GolfPopper on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:59PM (#33416729)
I think it's a joke, but it's the internet, so Poe's Law applies.
Re:The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state by NickNameNick on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:59PM (#33416728)
If you have the opportunity, Dinosaur national monument in Utah is well worth the visit.

They have an exposed fossil bearing rockface that you can get very close to, and you can see how the fossils differ from the surrounding stone.

Re:The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state by doodlebugging on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:26AM (#33417291)
This is obviously not intended as an informational post or as one that would be likely to be taken as fact by most people. You'll never be able to recover the time you spent typing all that.