J.C.MacSwell Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/fossil-of-baby-dinosaur-preserved-in-egg-astounds-science-community
Genady Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 Evidently, scientists are easily shocked: Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral (futurism.com) Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany | Flooding | The Guardian Scientists 'shocked' by high levels of microplastic pollution in London's Thames (nbcnews.com) Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted | Climate crisis | The Guardian Scientists shocked by mysterious deaths of ancient trees - BBC News Scientists shocked to discover how much lightning may clean the atmosphere | CBC Radio Scientists Shocked By Rare, Giant Sunfish Washed Up On California Beach : NPR Italian scientists shocked by earthquake devastation | Nature Scientists ‘shocked’ to find life in extreme depths under Antarctic ice - National | Globalnews.ca Scientists 'shocked' after second coral bleaching at Great Barrier Reef in two years - CNN ... the list goes on and on.
iNow Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 More precisely, writers of headlines and random people like you enjoy claiming that scientists are easily shocked. Further conversation should remain focused on the dinosaur egg as that’s the actual thread topic.
Genady Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 1 hour ago, iNow said: More precisely, writers of headlines and random people like you enjoy claiming that scientists are easily shocked. Further conversation should remain focused on the dinosaur egg as that’s the actual thread topic. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was kidding. Such headlines, I guess, are just click baits. Thought about it because the thread topic mentions impressing scientists. I don't enjoy claiming that scientists are easily shocked but rather enjoy making fun of popular science reports.
J.C.MacSwell Posted December 26, 2021 Author Posted December 26, 2021 8 hours ago, Genady said: Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was kidding. Such headlines, I guess, are just click baits. Thought about it because the thread topic mentions impressing scientists. I don't enjoy claiming that scientists are easily shocked but rather enjoy making fun of popular science reports. Just semantics, but I thought "impressed" was more accurate than "astounds", and thus the thread title. From the link: "It is an amazing specimen...I have been working on dinosaur eggs for 25 years and have yet to see anything like it," Zelenitsky told CNN through email. "Up until now, little has been known of what was going on inside a dinosaur's egg prior to hatching, as there are so few embryonic skeletons, particularly those that are complete and preserved in a life pose."
joigus Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 I also think it's impressive, perhaps tantalising. But no paradigm seems to have been overturned. It seems that the most important surprise factor comes from the good state of preservation, rather than it beeing completely unexpected. I wouldn't be surprised either if new discoveries converge to a picture in which some of what we think to be 'modern features' actually arose much farther back, which seems to be the direction this finding is going.
exchemist Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 3 hours ago, joigus said: I also think it's impressive, perhaps tantalising. But no paradigm seems to have been overturned. It seems that the most important surprise factor comes from the good state of preservation, rather than it beeing completely unexpected. I wouldn't be surprised either if new discoveries converge to a picture in which some of what we think to be 'modern features' actually arose much farther back, which seems to be the direction this finding is going. Exactly. It's the state of preservation that is remarkable. From what I understand, it shows that the embryos of this species of dinosaur were folded up inside the egg in just the same way as modern birds. Which is interesting, but perhaps what one might have expected rather than not.
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