It's like one of those Magic Eye pictures..you have to stare at the sand before the bones appear. That's what the dictionary says? <i>Anatosaurus</i> is the former, obsolete name of <i>Edmontosaurus</i>, they surely could swim but there's little evidence that their lifestyles were overwhelmingly amphibious, and the webbed feet is based on an outdated observation of flattened mummified tissue that more likely made up toe padding than toe webbing...Jesus! Come on, Miriam-Webster, don't drop the ball. -- Kimmeree's Message Board

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Date Posted: 09:35:13 08/25/05 Thu
Author: Myitt
Subject: It's like one of those Magic Eye pictures..you have to stare at the sand before the bones appear. That's what the dictionary says? Anatosaurus is the former, obsolete name of Edmontosaurus, they surely could swim but there's little evidence that their lifestyles were overwhelmingly amphibious, and the webbed feet is based on an outdated observation of flattened mummified tissue that more likely made up toe padding than toe webbing...Jesus! Come on, Miriam-Webster, don't drop the ball.
In reply to: I Am Mortal 's message, "Hadrosaur: Any of various amphibious dinosaurs of the genus Anatosaurus and related genera that had webbed feet and a ducklike bill. In case anyone else is as stupid as I am but was too lazy to look it up" on 00:09:09 08/25/05 Thu

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I ripped it off Dictionary.com so Webster is probably not to blame, but that makers of the website may have stolen his work, but there's the chance they ripped off some other, less known dictionary writer. That kills what I had thought I had known of the Hadrosaur. A place of truth and knowledge has been proven fairly wrong...my inner child is dying, I'm hurt :( (NT) -- I Am Mortal, 13:09:20 08/25/05 Thu
- Hahaha...yeah, I'm surprised at the damn dictionary. Oh well...science is always changing...it's hard to keep up sometimes. (NT) -- Myitt, 10:02:26 08/26/05 Fri
Hey, Yeerkie, did you visit the Yellowstone Megacaldera? -- Baranth, 08:05:15 08/26/05 Fri
- Not on this visit, but I have been to Yellowstone before. Incredible geothermal activity...what really sucks is that people throw things into the thermal pools and disrupt them, lowering the temperature, so thermophilic bacteria get in there and they aren't so beautiful anymore. -- Myitt, 10:05:46 08/26/05 Fri

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