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Fringey Minis - Dragons surely can't disappoint

Jun 12, 20245 minSeason 4Ep. 47
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I bet you're like any average cool pre-teen thinking dragons are the freaking best (using your preteen swears bang on). Well that's what we thought too, so surely an article about finding dragon bones won't disappoint.

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68374520

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I'll let us be the chooser. Okay, so we can choose what's going on in the National Parks 411. We're all full on that one. I feel like it's a kind of a hit it, empty it, and then wait like a year. Yeah, no, it's true. So maybe I shouldn't even give you the option. We got feel good, feel bad. I think I added another one too. Pretty sure this is bad. No, that's been around for a while. Oh yeah, here we go. Feeling disappointed. That one was only a matter of time. Don't you only read the headline?

No. Okay, feeling uncertain. Feeling like an update. And choose between good or bad. Feeling like science. Let's get some good news in here. Oh, damn it. I went to all that work to create one new one. Okay, hold on. I have to scroll so much to get to feel good. Let's see what I got. I'm gonna do this one. Okay, this one's from the BBC. It's from February 22nd, 2024 by Victoria Gill and it is fossil reveals 240 million year old Dragon. By the way, you can't see the quotes that I'm not reading.

For some reason, I'm just preparing myself for this to have accidentally made it here when it should have been feeling disappointed. I hope it doesn't end up in disappointment because then that means that I failed it wrong. Because I feel like I'm fully expecting a fire breathing dragon and or a wish granting Chinese style dragon. I am totally set up for that too because it's good news. Let's just find out.

Scientists have revealed a new remarkably complete fossil, a 16 foot long aquatic rectile from the Triassic period. Everyone knows dragons flew. They weren't aquatic unless the sky is aquatic. Also their Chinese water dragons exist. I don't even know what that is. The feature dates back 240 million years and has been dubbed a dragon because of its extremely long neck. It's called, damn it, this is feeling disappointed. It is called Dinosephalosaurus

Orientalis. No, it's not. So it is a Chinese dragon. A species that was originally identified back in 2003. This spectacular new fossil has allowed scientists to see the full anatomy of this bizarre, peristoric beast. Dr. Nick Frazier from National Museum Scotland, who was part of the international team that studied the fossil, said this was the first time scientists had been able to see it in full. He described it as a very strange animal. It had flipper like limbs and its

neck is longer than its body and tail combined, he said. A researcher speculated that a long, bendy and flexible neck with its 32 separate vertebrae might have provided a hunting advantage, allowing Dinosephalosaurus Orientalis to search for food in crevices under the water. The fossil was discovered in ancient limestone deposits in southern China. This discovery just adds to the weirdness of the Triassic, Dr. Frazier told BBC News. And every time we look in these deposits,

we find something new. A paper describing a set of new fossils of the animal is published in the Journal of Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. And that's the end of that. And I'm going to recategorize this now that we have the full article before us in Feeling Disappointed. Yes. And I feel like in fact, this was not a choose your own adventure for Taylor and crew. This was in fact Chelsea directing where we had to go, which was

the new category of Feeling Disappointed. Yeah, maybe that was the setup for the unveiling. I do only have one other thing in here, but I feel like my no, my filing system does work. I just went off the title and I was like, wow, a dragon. That's amazing. I should have known better. You know what? I feel like the new category came off after you found this article and you just kind of missed it. But I agree that the categorization method remains unblemished to date. I would agree.

And I can't move it there now because now this is forever locked in the history. Also, does it not sound like they were talking about it? It's in Edinburgh. Why wasn't it the Loch Ness monster instead of a dragon? Like it had fins and had a long neck. That dig directly go through my head. I don't know what to say about this. I'm just disappointed in all the ways around. Yeah. And that thought went exactly through my head as I was reading this. I was like, wow, sounds like the

Loch Ness monster, but it's probably because it has orientalism. It could only find one good Latin name. So they had to avoid all the best stuff. Like couldn't go with Loch Nessaurus or something like that. I'm sorry for letting you guys down on this. I am not disappointed because I am not the one leaving everyone disappointed this time around. And hey, maybe this means that Taylor will not disappoint you in 48 hours. Hey, maybe you stay tuned and see. Yeah. If history repeats

itself, then this is not going to be repeated through that logic. Who knows? Anyhow. I don't even know what I just said. So let's just kind of hear it. Bye guys. Goodbye.

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