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Scientists have unearthed massive, 98-million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.
Human-sized pieces of fossilized bone belonging to the giant sauropod appear to be 10-20 percent larger than those attributed to Patagotitan mayorum, the biggest dinosaur ever identified, according to a statement Wednesday from the National University of La Matanza's CTYS scientific agency.
<p>Sauropods were enormous long-necked, long-tailed, plant-eating dinosaurs -- the largest terrestrial creatures to ever have lived.</p><p>Among them, Patagotitan mayorum, also from Argentina, weighed in at about 70 tonnes and was 40 meters (131 feet) long, or about the length of four school buses.</p><p>Alejandro Otero of Argentina's Museo de La Plata is working on piecing together a likeness of the new dinosaur from two-dozen vertebrae and bits of pelvic bone uncovered so far.</p><p>He has published a paper on the unidentified dinosaur for the scientific journal Cretaceous Research, according to the university statement.</p><p>The quest for more body parts, buried deep in rock, continues. For scientists, the holy grail will be the large femur or humerus bones, which are helpful in estimating a long-extinct creature's body mass.</p><p>The massive fossils were discovered in 2012 in the Neuquen River Valley, but excavation work only began in 2015, according to palaeontologist Jose Luis Carballido of the Museo Egidio Feruglio.</p><p>"We have more than half the tail, a lot of hip bones," said Carballido, who also worked on the classification of Patagotitan a few years ago. "It's obviously still inside the rock, so we have a few more years of digging ahead of us."</p><p>The massive skeleton was found in a layer of rock dated to some 98 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous period, added geologist Alberto Garrido, director of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Zapala.</p><p>"We suspect that the specimen may be complete or almost complete," he said. "Everything depends on what happens with the excavations. But regardless of whether it is bigger (than Patagotitan) or not, the discovery of an intact dinosaur of such dimensions is a novelty."</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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QAnon congresswoman hasn't filed Biden impeachment articles because 'she thought it would be easier': report
January 21, 2021
QAnon-believing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) vowed to file articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden the day after his inauguration.
However, Atlanta-based New Yorker staffer writer Charles Bethea reports that Greene still hasn't filed the articles against Biden because she seems to have underestimated the difficulty in enacting such a procedure.
<p>"According to a GOP source in her district, Greene 'thought it would be a lot easier than it is,'" Bethea reports.</p><p>Greene, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/marjorie-greene-georgia-qanon-congress-b4167e4b-e42b-4c27-812c-524ee2ec2715.html" target="_blank">was once described</a> as a "future Republican star" by former President Donald Trump, is best known for her embrace of the completely discredited QAnon conspiracy theory which claimed Trump would conduct mass arrests of his political opponents and then expose them for running a Satanic pedophile ring.</p><p>However, Greene has also embraced several other conspiracy theories, including claims that several mass shootings <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2650026666/" target="_blank">were staged "false flag" operations</a> carried out to build support for confiscating Americans' guns. Greene has also questioned whether terrorists actually flew a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11.</p>
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President Donald Trump left Washington Wednesday morning while most of his former aides were still asleep. But he's going to need some help moving forward.
CNBC reported Thursday that as the Senate readies to take up the impeachment trial, the ex-president doesn't have a legal team or a strategy for dealing with it.
<p>"The failure to prepare for the trial is consistent with Trump's behavior this month, where he did little actual work related to the presidency," the report said. </p><p>Among his final acts in office, he reportedly instructed staff <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/14/trump-refusing-to-pay-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-after-falling-out" target="_blank">not to pay Rudy Giuliani for legal services</a>, which included months of attempts to overthrow the 2020 election. Giuliani has already said that he can't be on the legal team for Trump since he's named as being part of the case. </p><p>"Senate Democratic leaders as of Thursday morning said that they did not know when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will send them the article of impeachment passed last week by the House," the report said. "Ten GOP House members joined all Democratic members in approving the impeachment."</p><p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that he hopes there is a legitimate trial this time, as opposed to the previous impeachment where Republicans refused to allow witnesses to be called and evidence to be submitted. </p><p>"You know, it isn't like, oh, did somebody come into the Capitol," Durbin said. "We know the Capitol policeman was killed, and we saw the damage that was done."</p><p><span></span>"In that respect, it isn't like what in the hell was going on in that telephone conversation with the Ukrainian president?" he also said of the trial. </p><p><span></span>Democrats hold control of the Senate in a 50/50 split, but there are Republicans who indicated they opposed the insurrection attempt on the Capitol and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Americans overwhelmingly oppose the insurrection and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-poll-voters-are-split-trump-s-impeachment-removal-n1254314" target="_blank">last week, 57 percent of respondents</a> said that it was an act of terrorism. </p><p>A Trump impeachment may seem useless since he is no longer in office, but if convicted Trump couldn't run for office again in 2024 and he would lose up to $1 million annually in pension, health care and staff. It would take 17 Republicans and all Democrats to convict Trump. For Republicans hoping to run for office in 2024, getting Trump out of the way would be helpful but it would kill them with Trump's voters. </p><p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/21/trump-not-prepared-for-senate-impeachment-trial-for-capitol-riots.html" target="_blank">Read the full report. </a></p>
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