Top 5 Incredible Photos From Mulder's World [12/8/2013]
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| Read more: This is indeed the foot of a megalapteryx - better known as a moa |
Here are some fascinating photographs from MuldersWorld.com, the front page of the strange and unexplained:
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ReplyDeleteSo what the actual story behind such a preserved 600 year old specimen?
DeleteThere has to be some circumstance behind it because New Zealand's acidic forest soil and organisms would decompose it rather quickly, no?
I mean that's the biggest excuse for not having any Sasquatch bones ever...junglesque environment, right?
Don't forget New Zealand has porcupines too, those bone gnawing spiny bastards!
DeleteYes, whats the back story. It could just as well be ostrich, chopped off and kept as a souvenir. Sometimes Mulder gets the wool pulled over his eyes.
DeleteFrom a quick google search: "The appendage in the picture, which is currently held by the Museum of New Zealand, was found in a cave on Mount Owen in the 1980's. It belongs to Megalapteryx didinus (commonly known as the Upland Moa)."
DeleteThere's a whole bunch of preserved soft body tissue from Moas that have been found in several places in NZ, usually in caves which were dry enough to mummify the remains. They went extinct a little over 500 years ago which is remarkably recent in palaeontological terms.
Calling this "the best preserved dinosaur tissue to date" is pretty darned retarded. If you don't classify birds as a subset of the dinosaur family then it isn't dinosaur tissue, and if you do classify birds as dinosaurs then there's literally billions of tissue samples out there that are in better condition.
^ Thank you.
DeletePorcupines! I hate those spiny bastards. All cute and cuddly-looking until you try to pet one, then they will mess you up.
DeleteThere aren't any wild porcupines in New Zealand. They do have echidnas and hedgehogs, however.
DeleteIts not an ostrich foot! But i would of liked to have seen more info on the speciman. Also ostrich do not have razor sharp dew claws. Dew claws are used as a defence or to catch prey, so this bird is predatory Or just very aggressive! It could be a decomposing cassowary foot. Wich is most likely.
ReplyDeleteThe moa foot is legit. There's quite a few examples of mummified tissue from moas that have survived in caves. As someone who lives in New Zealand, I'd be interested in seeing some of these in person. I've always liked the somewhat romantic notion of a surviving population of moa, so it would be kinda cool to see preserved remains close up. I've seen moa skeletons a few times but never preserved tissue. Also, I don't classify birds as dinosaurs.
ReplyDelete"Also, I don't classify birds as dinosaurs."
DeleteFair enough, everyone's entitled to their opinion when it comes to scientific taxonomy. For example, I don't classify New Zealanders as people.
Ironic the science channel is currently airing a program that says 2:54's opinion on birds is just not right.
DeleteAnon 3:48, tread lightly. Kiwis are awesome. Their country is awesome. Wish I lived there.
Delete^Me again--but birds evolved from dinosaurs. Probably.
DeleteWe all evolved from squishy sea creatures, but that doesn't mean we still are squishy sea creatures. Well, not all of us...
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