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New Dinosaur Named Sauron After Lord Of The Rings

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Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur (the one in the rear having a snack) and named it Sauroniops pachytholus, after Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Why? Because they are NERDS. Personally, I would have named it after one of the characters in Jurassic Park, but that's just me and the things I say actually make sense. "You said earlier you thought we were voting for moon commander today." ARE WE NOT?

It's full name is Sauroniops pachytholus, a massive bipedal carcharodontosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period. The paleontologists, Andrea Cau, Fabio Dalla Vecchia, and Matteo Fabbri, felt that the single fragment provided enough evidence to warrant the classification of an entirely new species, and their work describing the new dinosaur has since been published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

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Thanks to Arkim Pines, who agrees the coolest names are numbers. No -- symbols. That's why I want you to all call me 'P' from now on. "That's a letter." You sure? I thought it was a little flag.

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  • ZomBBombeR

    Very cool and all, I'm always down with newly discovered Dinos but my only question is how big is this supposed fragment? I mean if a fragment of whatever bone is still enough to go yay or ney on another species cool I just figured they'd need more of a skeleton do make calls like that.

  • ObtuseEngel

    I bet it's after Primal Rage and not LOTR. Scientists love old school fighting games.

    http://blondesearch.ru/img/01/...

  • Jude

    Primal Rage was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post.
    Marvel has a dinosaur character named Sauron too; he's a green
    pterodactyl.

  • BillGatesIsNotYourDaddy

    I don't see any big red red eye

  • Blu_tac

    It's on the rear end of the dinosaur.

  • jimmy

    It enjoys spicy food

  • BillGatesIsNotYourDaddy

    Seems Legit

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