Mt. Blanco - Creationism's Going To The Dogs

I came across this the other day - utterly amusing, utterly daft.

DINOSAUR EATEN BY DOG!

Did you see the story a few months ago about a fossil dog-like animal found in China that had the remains of a baby dinosaur, a Psittacosaurus, inside its stomach contents?! Its true.

"Oh, you gotta be kiddin' me!" you say? Sadly, no. Note the wordage: 'dog-like animal'.

Mt. Blanco Museum was privileged, recently, to re-restore and mount one of these very interesting little dinosaurs.  See the previous story here.

The 'previous story' is actually a few scattered photos of how they prepped the fossil.

Stan Lutz did a very nice job on welding the frame for all this animal's tiny bones.

I doubt this'll make any 60 Minutes news stories.

THEY'RE FOR SALE. If anyone is interested, Mt. Blanco can provide you with a re-restored and mounted specimen of one of these amazing animals for around $10,000. Our mounts have movable heads and the bones all come off for transport in sections.

Get your very own portable fossils! Great for cocktail parties and bar-b-ques! Be the first on your block to own one! Comes with a full set of Ginsu knives, and several copies of 'Darwinian Fairy Tales' (damn, but distribution is LOW!).

NOTE, not long after the first dog-like animal was found, a much larger one was discovered. What this says about the old theory of mammals only being small rodents when dinosaurs filled the earth is no longer valid. Plus, you should know that a beaver-like animal fossil has now been found in China in the Jurassic sediments. This too makes the old theory of mammal evolution very outmoded.

So let's see if I've got this straight: you (the 'museum') provides absolutely no proof outside of two examples (no photos, no external news stories, a few pics of a mounted skeleton), and the foundation of biology (evolution) just comes tumbling down! (Old theories are allowed to be scotched, without destroying the entire field, ya know.)

This isn't a museum, it's a sideshow freak bally.

If you just do a little research, the whole 'theory' comes right apart at the seams.

From here:

"Another fossil from the Yixian Formation provides direct evidence of Psittacosaurus as a prey animal. One skeleton of Repenomamus giganticus, a large, aquatic triconodont mammal, is preserved with the remains of a juvenile Psittacosaurus in its abdominal cavity. Several of the juvenile's bones are still articulated, indicating that the carnivorous mammal swallowed its prey in large chunks. This specimen is notable in that it is the first known example of Mesozoic mammals preying on live dinosaurs.^[26] Heavy predation on juvenile Psittacosaurus may have resulted in R-selection, the production of more numerous offspring to counteract this loss."

Note that the Repenomamus was the critter who ate Psittacosaurus' young.

Now, for the REAL reason the dinosaurs became extinct (and how the mammals are to blame!):

Ha-HA!