This made me laugh out loud.

It has been 60 years since French paleontologists first found the dinosaur’s bones in Saharan Africa, and 10 years since Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago began assembling a more complete skeleton. Only now has his team recognized the plant-eater’s peculiar anatomy and foraging behavior.

The researchers report today that the dinosaur, named Nigersaurus taqueti, had an unusually short neck, delicate bones and a habitual head posture pointed directly toward the ground. Unlike the more common long-necked species, this was a ground-level browser like modern cows.

In a journal article and an interview, the paleontologist Dr. Sereno said this 30-foot-long dinosaur, with hundreds of teeth in its broad, squared-off jaws, probably lived on ferns, horsetails and other ground vegetation. The 110 million-year-old species was discovered in Niger and is related to the North American dinosaur Diplodocus.

“We have seen nothing like this dinosaur,” Dr. Sereno said. “It’s a puzzle that says, ‘figure this out,’ and we think it’s an extreme version of Diplodocus with the minimum amount of body structure it needed.”

The scientists described the Nigersaurus anatomy and behavior in a report to be published next week in PloS ONE, the online journal of the Public Library of Science. Their research was partly financed by the National Geographic Society, which is featuring the results in the December issue of its magazine.

At the time the dinosaur lived, the land that is now Niger was a lush habitat with forests and large waterways, crawling with predatory 40-foot-long crocodiles. Nigersaurus, with a body the size of an elephant, was one of the most common herbivores there.

The dinosaur’s relatively small skull, excavated in 1997, proved to be especially revealing. CT scans, analyzed by Lawrence M. Witmer of Ohio University, showed details of the braincase and inner ear, from which the scientists inferred the animal’s head posture. Neck bones also indicated that it could not look up. Its muzzle was angled to the ground, unlike the forward-pointing snouts of most other dinosaurs.

The muzzle itself was odd. In contrast to other plant-eating dinosaurs, this one had more than 50 columns of teeth, all lined up along the front edge of the jaws, forming, in effect, a foot-long pair of scissors.

The CT scans of the jaw bones revealed up to nine replacement teeth stacked behind each cutting tooth. When one wore out, another immediately took its place, at a rate, perhaps, of one a month in each column.

“Among dinosaurs,” Dr. Sereno said, “Nigersaurus sets the Guinness record for tooth replacement.”


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"ill bee yore negasaurus baaaaaaaabe"

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yea nega
ive gottin soe bigg mye negas
its lyke im a tyranosaurus
naw wate fuk taht
a negasaurus
chek itt

(vurse 1)

im thu negasaurus
bettur feer mye rore
eet yore ladee upp
becuz i amm a carnivoar

butt i becum a hurbivoar
whin i smoak taht hurb
soe nowe i amm omnivoarous
mye nega tahts mye worde

mye teath replaise kwickly
tahts won uv mye feechures
i nead themm frum eeting thu ribbs
uv oll thees othur creechures

mye caiv iz vary spachious
itll maik yoo saie "gud grachious!"
reelest negasaurus
inn oll uv thu creetachious

(korus)
cuz wen dynosores rooled thu planit
won stuud owt frum oll thu reste
oll thu othur reptyles cood'nt stande itt
cuz thay new mye gaim wuz thu beste
so wen yoo cee a negasaurus
bettur notiss hiss gaim iz fyne
cuz evin wen negasauri goe eckstinct
hiss storee gos onn foar oll tyme

(vurse b)

im thu negasaurus
thu won youre gurl iz aftur
ill gitt yore womin fastur
then a velosiraptur

yoo knoe mye dik iz biggur
then tyranosaurus recks
thay wont mee too flecks
and giv themm tyranosaurus seeeecks

doa'nt stepp too mee nega
und forse mee too smak yoo
yoo hait becuz mye stile iz flier
then a ptairodactil

so recugnyze a negasaurus
und thu waie hee roals
und git reddy cuz steevn speelberg's
fillmin oll mye viddeeeooooooooos!

(korus 2x)

(owtro)

yea nega
keappin itt reel oll thru thu jorassic
dubble upp onn feemails, maik it a tryassic
haha
its yore boyefrend
showt owt too oncle joonbug

DEAD

Hes an omnivore fam.

this is the best rubbert kolly poast evar.

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LAMBO!!!! (© Jesse Badgreen)

Reading that to the melody of "I'll Never Leave" makes it that much more hilarious.

ie, throwing the alley oop so someone can say FIF!

watch.


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instahit

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you are truly a genius.

Damn u man

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a subsaharan terrain rich in vegetation, including the Collared Fern, and what appear to be giant, Land of the Lost watermelons.

From the relative few bones discovered thus far, paleontologists have nonetheless felt confident enough to infer many details about Nigersaurus' life, including the theory that the lumbering beast ate a large meal early in the morning and slept through the day.


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oh my god...

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Shit hurts when I laugh, but I can't help it.

LMAO This is absolute brilliance. I knew someone would articulate why this made me literally convulse with laughter
thank you Poetx...

article.

Nigersaurus, indeed. like Niger Innis.

y'all ain't slick.

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lol

That Kool Aid stereotype and all

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>The researchers report today that the dinosaur, named
>Nigersaurus taqueti, had an unusually short neck, delicate
>bones and a habitual head posture pointed directly toward the
>ground.

the only thing missing is something like this:

"Researchers also note that its shallow pelvis suggests a slew-footed, shuffling gait."

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KleptoNiggasaurus?

little, fast, dark skinned reptile that went around snatching other dinosaurs' shit.


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damn
they serious.

lol


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yall are some immature ass, misappropriating ass NIGGERS!

>yall are some immature ass, misappropriating ass NIGGERS!


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holla att a negasaurus wen hez inn thu streats

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I need this kind of laughter Rubbert Kolly, I love you man.

>yall are some immature ass, misappropriating ass NIGGERS!

but...The People also know that the average dumb ass does not know the difference between "Niger" and "N###er".

The Doc remembers kids in school chuckling at it on a globe
Sometimes The Doc believes jabronis came up with the name of that country just so they could get away with sayin' the N-Word.

there is terminology for the act of reading a word as it appears.

call folks -er's. lol.


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Dude tried to tell me about a movie he had called "The River Nigger". I said you mean the River NIGER. His reply was "oh".

they REALLY talking about their cousin'. fancy that.


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You know white scientist's were snickering when they came up with that one.

Fuck, I can't remember how many times I heard a white person pronounce Niger as Nigger.

a prehistoric ancestor of chicken. Unique among all dinosaurs in its diet, the omnivorous Nigersaurus appeared to have preferred eating Archaeopteryx only in combination with a pasty substance obtained from the Tabascus Fern, which also was native to its region.

Among other curiosities was the initially inexplicable presence of minerals in the teeth of Nigersaurus. Scientists were first at a loss to explain a shiny patina on the foremost teeth of the Nigersaurus, however, after checking the strata near the dig site, they discovered that the Collared Fern, a staple of Nigersaurus' diet, grew close to the ground in rocky areas rich in gold deposits.

The Nigersaurus tended to live in communal clusters around short, rocky outcroppings called Dubkofsky Formations, after the geologist who had studied them. The dinosaurs appeared highly social, and would cluster, perched upon these Dubs (archeologists are a lot prone to shortening long scientific names amongst themselves), eating Archaeopteryx, and laying eggs in groups of twelve, also known as Laying Dozens.

Dr. Siddartha Raghavendra, a renowned archaeologist, made a landmark discovery of a cranial feature thought to be unique to Nigersaurus. at the crown of the head of the dinosaur, there are a series of concentric ridges of bone. Given the very moist climate of the Playaistocene, but the relative dearth of watering holes near the Nigersaurus' habitat, Raghavendra surmised that the ridges would trap condensed moisture in the morning, allowing Nigersaurus to drink the dew. In honar of his discovery, The International Paleontogists Federation has christened this cranial feature the Dew Raghavendra, or, in shortened form in paleological circles, the Dew Rag.



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> In honar of his discovery, The International
>Paleontogists Federation has christened this cranial feature
>the Dew Raghavendra, or, in shortened form in paleological
>circles, the Dew Rag.

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lol

Thats all folks. Thanx for coming out. Goodnite.

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*resurrects only to get eaten by a tyrannosaurus rex*

.

i'm still laughing at that one

:D

today and hailed this as a positive announcement.

"We have been in need for some time now, of an African dinosaur. It will be very helpful to the self-esteem of children in this country if they would immediately stop playing with Tyrannosaurs and Stegosaurs and begin purchasing Nigersauruses."

Rev. Jesse Jackson could not be reached for comment, but a spokesmen assured us that he would provide us with a better comment than Rev. Sharpton, no later than tomorrow morning in time to make the drive time news.


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LMFAO

entitled, 'When Niggasaurs Ruled The Earth', voiced over by Morgan Freeman and Michael Clarke Duncan. The groundbreaking (well, for BET) series will include stop motion animation and attempt to give viewers a feel for how things were in the Playaistocene Epoch.

The reaction to this news has been mixed, with some people actively anticipating the program, and others expressing concern that BET will handle this subject with the necessary sensitivity and scientific detachment of, say, the History or Discovery Channels.

Dr. Kaletra Baker, the head of the world's only African Dinosaur Studies Degree Programme, at Xavier University, had this to say:

"I approached Bob Johnson *years* ago about doing a show on dinosaurs and he said, 'B*tch, I don't give a f*ck about dinosaurs'. I found it incredibly rude and demeaning, but I did not want to be seen as trying to 'bring a brother down'. Now, however, that the Nigersaurus has been discovered, I fear that they will run roughshod over science only to glorify and exploit very common misconceptions about black dinosaurs, and I am deeply, deeply concerned. Look, they even got the title of the show wrong".

When asked about the misspelling of Nigersaurus in the promotional materials for the documentary series, BET associate producer Lando Davis said, "Mayne, we'll fix that up, don't worry 'bout it. Besides, they only paying $250 a week to our copyediting staff. Its a different economy", echoing the famous line from founder Bob Johnson.

A spokesperson for Viacom apparently stayed above the fray with a cryptic comment, "Mo money, mo money, MO money."






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>"I approached Bob Johnson *years* ago about doing a show on
>dinosaurs and he said, 'B*tch, I don't give a f*ck about
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Nigersaurus taqueti

watch it be some lil ninjas in kindergarten 5 yrs from now w/ that exact damn name.

and the teachers, who weren't on okp, are gonna be like, what. thee. fock?!?

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is what I'm getting at

i remember how them ni&&as in DC went off about the word 'niggardly'. Nigersaurus? No thanks. We'll be referring to him as big-assed reptile of african ancestry.


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away from rubbert. he (she/it) killin' it right now.

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COLD!!!



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