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Giant Platypus Found, Shakes Up Evolutionary Tree

Posted November 05, 2013 10:05 AM

From National Geographic News:

At about three feet long, the ancient Obdurodon tharalkooschild is the biggest platypus ever found, a new study says.

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Re: Giant Platypus Found, Shakes Up Evolutionary Tree

11/05/2013 7:48 PM

Shenanigans! Shenanigans! I call Shenanigans!!!

One tooth!?! One tooth!!??!!

How about that one really big kid from my fifth grade class? He was as big as the teacher and when he graduated he was nearly eight feet tall! He probably went through puberty when he took his first crap outside the womb.

He had the freakiest bigazz teeth, too.

Was he a new species or just an aberration? If some future "scientist" who had never seen a hominid in real-life tried to figure out what types used to exist and came across one of my grade-school chum's choppers, would they think that a new species of human being existed?

Dan...you would be legendary!

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Re: Giant Platypus Found, Shakes Up Evolutionary Tree

11/06/2013 9:18 AM

Ok everybody, it's shenanigans! Get a broom!

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Re: Giant Platypus Found, Shakes Up Evolutionary Tree

11/06/2013 11:05 AM

When you don't have much to go on scientifically but you have a theory to promote you grasp at straws. This is pretty much par for the course in the evolutionary religion. Remember Nebraska Man, Susie, etc. These were miniscule parts of an animal and they tried to establish a legitimate "link" proving the evolutionary theory.

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Re: Giant Platypus Found, Shakes Up Evolutionary Tree

11/06/2013 12:49 PM

This story is odd. This entire species, and all the various details about it are based off a single solitary tooth.

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It seems very presumptuous to find one large platypus tooth and decide that you know how big a giant species of platypus was that used that tooth. At best you know one platypus has a very large tooth.

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While it is probable that it was not the only one (the tooth or the animal), there are many other possibilities besides 'platypus larger than any other living or found'. Perhaps it was a well traveled sail-toothed platypus, or a fearsome saber-toothed platypus, or a gregarious buck-toothed platypus, or a platypus with macrodontia.

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It is just one big tooth.

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11/06/2013 4:08 PM

Maybe it was a Dorkypus.

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11/06/2013 5:03 PM

Remember this is a tooth. Dork means whale penis.

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11/06/2013 5:22 PM

Didn't know that, I was thinking of a cartoon character with a large tooth. Now I understand what she meant when she said "Not with that, Dork" what she really meant was "Not with that dork!"

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