Well I'll be!: A dinosaur on a bus.
Courtesy T-Oh! & MattPeruvian officials discovered a 19-pound dinosaur jaw bone the cargo hold of a bus this week.
The bone appears to be from a triceratops, or one of its relatives, although such dinosaurs have never been found in Peru before.
More perplexing to scientists, however, is the prospect of a population of dinosaurs living and dying in a bus's cargo area.
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I hope this there is some follow up on this story. Where should something like this go? Hopefully some Peruvian museum will get the object. Unless of course it can be tracked down to its original owner.
Clearly the original owner, (a triceratops or close relative) will not NEED it back. The mystery remains as to why this particular animal chose this particular bus. I want to know what the route and possible destinations might be affiliated with this bus. Perhaps a great zoo or museum display awaits at stop number 19...
Take a left at the Spam restaurant and proceed to the triceratops exhibit. 2 for 1 today only!
triceratops is my favorite dinosaur. i wnna know whos smuggling their bones on buses
BOOYAKASHA!
so how the hell did this thing get on the bus cargo..........
Kulyas
i wonder there are going to show us more of the story.... thats weird did it just dissapear what the heck ion know...
sure dinosaurs ride the buss all the time. i just saw one the other day going to work in down town
Well first time for everything. If Peru never found anything that big, now they did :D but this fact is very interesting in a way.
WOH WOH WOH!!!
Dino on a bus??
That sounds awesome...
haha
i think that it would be pretty cool to ride a bus with a dinosaur in the back.
people are smuggling dinosaur bones now? that is pretty funny but who is going to get the bone?
IBI Call it what you want IBI
That's a great question. Check out this one blog post on the subject. If you scroll down to the comments you can see a suggestion by Sukie Crandall that the photo shown in all the news stories is of proboscidean not a Triceratops. Hmm...this bears some more investigation.
I couldn't find that comment, but--as someone who is entirely unqualified to make any sort of judgement on identifying animal bones--I totally thought that thing looked more elephanty that triceratopseryery. I'm guessing that whoever they got to identify the thing knows the difference--maybe the photo that went out with the story was a mixup?
I'm working at the science museum tonight, and I'm going to give our triceratops (which, I have to say, is one of the best looking triceratops in the world--seriously) a good looking at.
So who's stealing the dinosaur bone? And on a bus? How long is this 19 pound dinosaur jaw?!
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