Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Dino puzzle

Hands up everyone who knows what a dinosaur looks like. 0ops. Not so fast. Yahoo recently carried the story of a group of scientists who are dismantling the skeleton of a 75-ft long sauropod dinosaur so they can reassemble it based on the latest paleontological research findings. So just how many ways will dinosaur bones fit together - and what if the shin bone doesn't connect to the knee bone? It's a good reminder of the fantastic work done by paleontologists to date - all this while putting together a 3D jigsaw without a picture! And the good news is that if they have any left over., they can always sell at auction. The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a woolly mammoth sold for over a quarter of a million dollars on the weekend.

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