LOST: DINOSAUR IN PENYGHENT
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Hiya mikem, sorry If I've misinterpreted your remark, and apologies in advance if that is the case, but it seems (to me, anyway) as though you are using the word 'dinosaur' as a term of abuse . . . 'retired cavers', 'old fogies', etc.
The fact is that the dinosaurs were a spectacularly amazing and successful group of animals, perhaps the most successful of all the (big) animals who have ever live on this poor old Earth. And many people think that they did not die out, but live on as birds. Note – not that birds are descended from dinosaurs, but birds are actually living dinosaurs. There is some discussion as to whether the 4 classes of terrestrial vertebrates – birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles – should be reorganized into 5 classes – mammals, amphibians, reptiles, (endothermic) dinosaurs (to include birds) and (endothermic) pterosaurs (who were neither dinosaurs nor reptiles).
The fact is that the dinosaurs were a spectacularly amazing and successful group of animals, perhaps the most successful of all the (big) animals who have ever live on this poor old Earth. And many people think that they did not die out, but live on as birds. Note – not that birds are descended from dinosaurs, but birds are actually living dinosaurs. There is some discussion as to whether the 4 classes of terrestrial vertebrates – birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles – should be reorganized into 5 classes – mammals, amphibians, reptiles, (endothermic) dinosaurs (to include birds) and (endothermic) pterosaurs (who were neither dinosaurs nor reptiles).
snotholing
Member
is this a joke
No; why don't you Google 'Are birds dinosaurs', and see what you get. Meanwhile, to whet your appetite, here's a picture of a Deinonychus, a 3-m early-Cretaceous theropod dinosaur in all her fully-feathered glory. But, don't be fooled by the cutsy, big-bird appearance; see those big claws on her feet? They're wicked weapons – sharp sickle-shaped claws that are 5 or 6 inches long. If you bumped into her and she was hungry, she'd probably stand on one leg and disembowel you with one slashing strike from her sickle on the other foot before eating you. And don't think that you could run away! With her light, strong hollow bones (like those of a bird), her long shin bone when compared with her thigh bone, her advanced breathing system (again, like those of birds, which are considerably more efficient than those of mammals) and her endothermic metabolism, she could probably run very quickly – certainly faster than you or I could.
wellyjen
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Is this the answer to the missing dinosaur report? Nessie has evolved and flown out of Penyghent Pot. Should people be looking in nests in trees in the area?
Much more likely to have swum out...
[I was just referring back to Long Drop's comment on previous page]
The joint we see in birds'legs is equivalent to our ankle, so it's foot & shin bones (you can just see the knee in picture, but thigh is hidden behind body feathers)
[I was just referring back to Long Drop's comment on previous page]
The joint we see in birds'legs is equivalent to our ankle, so it's foot & shin bones (you can just see the knee in picture, but thigh is hidden behind body feathers)
snotholing
Member
this is really a beautiful photograph
Jim MacPherson
Member
Suppose you need to say "was", I suspect most people are aware of the intervention of a few idiots so the tree was chain sawed a few weeks ago. The site's been sorted although some damage to The Wall happened and possibly the resultant timber will be used somewhere near by, maybe Housesteads. The NT and others hope to provide a replacement or the stump will send up shoots presently. However Nessie won't find that perch available for many years to come.
Being honest I've walked past it on and of for nearly 60 years and paid no heed.
Puts potholing/mining damage in a degree of context.
Jim
Misbecaving
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"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
Peter the Hermit, AD1274
Peter the Hermit, AD1274
langcliffe
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Aristotle said about 1,500 years earlier than that: "Young people have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things."
langcliffe
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Said by an old man in John Heywood's original 1546 text.
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool." Harold MacMillan
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." George Chapman
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." George Chapman
