‘They’re done’: CNBC’s Jim Cramer says fossil fuel industry ‘In the death knell phase’

HEY KENNEY ITS TOO LATE FOR YOU AND YOUR WAR ROOM FOR BIG OIL

‘They’re done’: CNBC’s Jim Cramer says fossil fuel industry ‘In the death knell phase’
January 31, 2020 By Common Dreams

“You can tell that the world’s turned on them, and it’s actually kind of happening very quickly,” said Cramer.

Climate campaigners drew attention to CNBC‘s Joe Cramer’s comments Friday that he’s “done with fossil fuels” because they’re “in the death knell phase.”

Cramer added that “the world’s turned on” the industry as they did with tobacco.

“They’re done,” Cramer said of fossil fuels on the network’s “Squawk Box.” “We’re starting to see divestment all over the world. We’re starting to see… big pension funds saying, ‘We not going to own them anymore.”

“The world’s changed,” Cramer continued. While companies like BP still mark profits, “nobody cares,” because “new money managers want to appease younger people who believe that you can’t ever make a fossil fuel company sustainable.”

“You can tell that the world’s turned on them, and it’s actually kind of happening very quickly,” said Cramer. “You’re seeing divestiture by a lot of different funds. It’s going to be a parade… that says look, ‘These are tobacco, and we’re not going to own them.'”

Oil stocks are in the death knell phase, says @jimcramer. “The world is turning on them…new kinds of money managers who frankly want to appease younger people who believe you can’t ever make a fossil fuel company sustainable.” pic.twitter.com/PV63RSudrf
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) January 31, 2020

Author and climate activist Naomi Klein said Cramer’s comments showed the power of fossil fuel divestment

Watch this entire thing: it doesn’t matter how well oil stocks are doing, the next generation sees them as toxic and doesn’t want them. Everyone involved in the fossil fuel divestment movement, and that is thousands upon thousands of mostly young people, made this happen. Wow. https://t.co/cDaD9VjBD2
— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) January 31, 2020

350.org founder and author Bill McKibben had a similar takeaway, writing on Twitter Friday, “Thanks to all who fight so hard.”

Oil Change International also weighed in on Cramer’s comments.

We’re glad to see @JimCramer calling out fossil fuel companies as bad investments. Another good reason to ditch: they happen to be destabilizing the climate

https://t.co/k6KZn3C6ih
— Oil Change International (@PriceofOil) January 31, 2020

Cramer’s comments on “Squawk Box” came two days after he tweeted that he was “taking a hard pass on anything fossil”—a comment welcomed by Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune.

Smart call, @jimcramer. The @SierraClub agrees! https://t.co/YJkeSJD6yF
— Michael Brune (@bruneski) January 30, 2020

Lindsay Meiman, a spokesperson for 350.org—which has spearheaded the global movement to demand pension funds, university endowments, and other institutions divest from oil, coal, and gas companies—said Cramer is only confirming what many market observers already understand.

“The financial tides are turning away from fossil fuels. Coal, oil, and gas companies are not only the perpetrators of the climate crisis we’re now experiencing, but have also dangerously underperformed markets over the last decade,” Meiman told Common Dreams. “As we enter the climate decade, we’re demanding polluters pay for their destruction, and that all institutions and politicians cut ties from toxic fossil fuels to reinvest in a world that puts our health and safety first.”

Man accidentally buys identical Powerball tickets, wins twice

THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS ACCIDENTS
Man accidentally buys identical Powerball tickets, wins twice

A Delaware man won $100,000 when he accidentally bought two identical Powerball tickets that each won $50,000. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Delaware man who accidentally bought two identical Powerball tickets for the same drawing had the mistake pay off when they each won him a $50,000 prize.

The 61-year-old Newark man told Delaware Lottery officials he asked his son to fill out some playslips for the Jan. 18 Powerball drawing, but when he got to Malin's Market in Newark he realized he only had enough money to buy three of his intended four tickets.

The man returned the next day for his fourth ticket and accidentally used the same numbers as one of his other tickets.

"When I returned to the store after the drawing, I couldn't believe I had won when I scanned the first ticket," the man said. "A few hours later, when I scanned the second ticket and saw it had also won, I was shaking. It was unbelievable."

The man ended up winning $100,000 -- $50,000 for each winning ticket.

The winner said he plans to use some of his winnings to pay off his bills and put the rest into savings.

Ancient shark found inside Kentucky's Mammoth Cave

 By Brooks Hays

Scientists found the fossilized remains of an ancient shark head, including portions of its jaw, cranial cartilage and several teeth, embedded in the wall of a remote chamber of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Photo by the National Park Service

Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Scientists have identified the 330-million-year-old remains of an ancient shark inside Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park.

While exploring and mapping Mammoth Cave's many remote chambers, expert spelunkers Rick Olson and Rick Toomey happened upon a fossilized jaw and several teeth embedded in a cave wall.

Olson and Toomey took pictures of the fossils and sent them to Vincent Santucci, senior paleontologist with the National Park Service. Santucci reached out to John-Paul Hodnett, a paleontologist and expert in the study of Paleozoic sharks.

Hodnett, program coordinator at the Dinosaur Park in Maryland, came to visit the Mammoth Cave fossil. He was excited by what he found. There was enough fossil evidence to identify the ancient shark species as Saivodus striatus.

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"Though fossil shark teeth have been discovered at Mammoth Cave before, they have never been scientifically documented until now," Hodnett told UPI Thursday in an email. "The discovery of fossilized cranial cartilage associated with teeth of the Saivodus striatus, a species of shark previously only known from teeth, just added some important anatomical information that can help us better understand how this ancient shark lived and who it was related to."

Scientists found the fossilized remains of an ancient shark head, including portions of its jaw, cranial cartilage and several teeth, embedded in the wall of a remote chamber of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Photo by the National Park Service

Scientists aren't sure if the remains are part of a full skeleton. So far, researchers have only identified and documented parts of the jaw and cranium, along with several teeth. But the size of the ancient shark head suggests the specimen was similar in size to a great white shark, measuring somewhere between 11 and 21 feet.

It's possible more fossils are hidden in the walls of the cave.

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Saivodus striatus remains have been previously identified at a number of Late Mississippian dig sites in the United States and Europe. During the Late Mississippian, some 330 million years ago, Kentucky was covered by a large shallow sea of warm water.

"Forests of sea lilies, a relative to starfish, dominated the sea floor, along with early solitary corals and bivalved animals called brachipods," Hodnett said. "The most common fish at this time were sharks and their kin."

Though scientists were thrilled to find the ancient shark head, Mammoth Cave National Park boasts a rich fossil heritage. Scientists with the National Park Service have recently begun a paleontological resource inventory at the park.

Scientists found the fossilized remains of an ancient shark head, including portions of its jaw, cranial cartilage and several teeth, embedded in the wall of a remote chamber of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Photo by the National Park Service

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"We are just beginning this effort and already had some exciting discoveries," Santucci told UPI. "We have two categories of fossils that we are focusing on at Mammoth Cave National Park, including: one, fossils which are preserved in the Paleozoic marine limestones in which the caves actually developed. These are largely marine invertebrates and some rare fossil vertebrates such as the sharks."

"Two: there are also ice age fossils from Mammoth Cave National Park," Santucci said. "These are largely Pleistocene mammals who either inhabited the caves periodically or the remains of organisms that were dragged in by predators or somehow transported into the caves."

As Santucci and his colleagues continue to investigate the national park's paleontological treasures, they plan to publish and present a scientific paper detailing the discovery and identification of Saivodus striatus.

The team of scientists also hope to find a way to share information about the new shark discovery through both a website and potentially a public display at the park itself.

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Montana ranchers, conservationists lock horns over free-ranging bison

SINCE THEY WILL BE IMPORTING THE BISON (WOOD BUFFALO) FROM ALBERTA WHERE THEY ARE PROTECTED AT ELK ISLAND NATIONAL PARK AND WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK, THEY COULD ASK FOR OUR HELP

Montana ranchers, conservationists lock horns over free-ranging bison
By Jean Lotus


Montana state wildlife officials approved a plan that might allow bison to be categorized as wildlife outside of Yellowstone National Park. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A new state plan to allow bison to be categorized as wildlife has pitted Montana ranchers and livestock producers against conservationists.

Wildlife organizations believe restoring the national mammal on large tracts of public lands would bring back the most iconic wild beast of the historic Great Plains. Ranchers, however, say wild bison would destroy property, endanger people and consume grass on public land now allocated for cattle.

In January, Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced a policy that could send herds of wild bison onto private, public or tribal land.

The state wildlife agency's new ecological impact statement said the agency will consider public proposals for site-specific bison restoration plans after input from local stakeholders.

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No current proposals have been submitted to the state, but visions of large herds of free-roaming bison in vast prairie landscapes in eastern Montana have excited visionaries -- and infuriated the locals -- since the late 1980s.

While livestock bison herds exist nationwide, Yellowstone National Park has the only free-roaming wild population of plains bison in the United States. Derived from a tiny herd that survived extinction in the 1800s, the animals are prized for having no cattle DNA.

"Some people have tears running down their face when they see bison for the first time. It's almost a spiritual experience," said Pam Knowles, who with husband Craig runs an ecotourism bison ranch near Townshend, Mont.

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Groups such as Yellowstone-based Buffalo Field Campaign believe free-roaming bison should be part of the ecosystem, like elk. The Yellowstone bison are allowed to leave the west entrance of the park in the winter to find grass, but are chased back into the park in the spring.

"We definitely support the restoration of wild, free-roaming bison in free habitats," said James Holt, the field campaign's executive director and a former member of the Nez Perce tribal executive committee.

"We need those buffalo fulfilling the Yellowstone ecosystem. The federal lands around the park need bison for soil and plant health, and for the viability of other wildlife species," Holt said.

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But some of the state's agricultural and ranching interests oppose the idea.

"I don't see why we should force other landowners to have wild bison on their property," said Chuck Denowh, policy director of a ranching and farmer group, United Property Owners of Montana. "Bison restoration is already underway in Montana and it's being done responsibly, mitigating for risks, disease and damage."

Denowh cited media mogul Ted Turner's 2-million acre private Montana bison ranch as an example of heritage bison raised on private property as livestock. His group strongly opposes the aspirations for bison of the billionaire-financed American Prairie Reserve, founded in 2001.

In eastern Montana's vast empty counties, where population has been falling since the 1930s, the reserve has purchased 30 local ranches from willing sellers and wants to buy about 20 more to create a vast "American Serengeti" on private and public lands.

"Research shows that the 3.2-million-acre fully intact prairie ecosystem we are hoping to accomplish one day could sustain a herd of 10,000 bison," said Beth Saboe, the reserve's spokeswoman.

Even though the reserve has about 850 genetically pure bison, and they're being raised as livestock, opponents worry the scale of the reserve's plans would effectively create an unmanageable wild herd that would cause havoc on surrounding agricultural land.

Those worries are unfounded, Saboe said.

"We've never been pushing for a wild herd. If one day the state of Montana decides they would like to see a wild herd of bison in the state, we'd contribute some animals to that effort."

Bison on the loose

A sixth-generation Montanan, Sierra Stoneberg Holt, has a ranch that sits across the fence from the reserve. Stoneberg Holt, no relation to James Holt, said she disagrees with the reserve's long-range plan to recreate the empty Great Plains filled with free-roaming bison and little hands-on management.

"[American Prairie Reserve] will mismanage the grasslands and cause animals to go extinct," she said.

A loose bison bull once prevented a neighbor from leaving his house for a doctor's appointment, she said. Another bison got mixed up with a neighbor's cattle and hurt a cow.

For bison producers who have kept their herds relatively wild, it's not so hard to imagine what a wild herd might look like.

Bison rancher Craig Knowles said the 80 animals at Wild Echo Bison Ranch never damaged the house or any other structures on the 450-acre property. Bison stay behind barbed wire fences on the ranch.

"We don't touch our animals at all. Bison are easy to manage as long as you don't apply livestock handling techniques to them," Knowles said. The animals would "consider it abuse" if they were driven into a squeeze chute, castrated or branded like cattle are.

"They're very intelligent animals, capable of holding a grudge and seeking revenge," he said.

A wildlife biologist, Knowles predicted wild bison herds might be managed like wild bighorn sheep -- in small herds.

"What is a wild bison is a good question, and is it even possible to have wild bison?" Knowles asked. "Probably a better question is how are we going to fit bison back into a human-dominated landscape?"

Belgrade, Mont.,-based retired wildlife biologist Jim Bailey, of the Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition, has proposed restoring a small wild herd of bison on 100 square miles of U.S. Forest Service land in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Montana.

Greta Thunberg puts Africa’s climate activists in media spotlight

January 31, 2020 By Agence France-Presse


After a racism debate in Davos on the invisibility of African climate activists, Greta Thunberg held a ress conference Friday with eco warriors from Kenya, Uganda and South Africa to stress the importance of their voices.

Vanessa Nakate of Uganda was at the heart of a viral debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos after she was cropped out of a news agency photo of young activists, including Thunberg, taken after a press conference.

A 23-year-old graduate in business administration, Nakate was the only black person and only African in the photo shoot.
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She accused the Associated Press of racism in cropping her out.

The agency said the photographer had modified the photo for composition purposes.

“We’re doing this press conference today so that people who need to be heard can share their stories to the media,” Thunberg told journalists at Greenpeace Sweden’s offices.

“Today we will be focusing on Africa as the African perspective is always so under-reported,” she added.

So far, Africa is essentially blameless when it comes to climate change.

The continent is home to 17 percent of the world’s population and more than a quarter of its nations, but only accounts for about five percent of the greenhouse gas emissions pushing the planet toward runaway warming.

The Swedish teen activist, who has become a household name since beginning her “School Strike for the Climate” in August 2018, said she would only answer a few questions before giving the floor to the African activists, who took part via video link.

Nakate, on camera from Kampala, was the first to speak out.

“This is the time for the world to listen to the activists from Africa and to pay attention to their stories… This is an opportunity for media to actually do some justice to the climate issues in Africa,” she said.

Nakate, joined by Ayakha Melithafa and Ndoni Mcunu of South Africa and Makenna Muigai of Kenya, then spent the next hour answering journalists’ questions.

Mcunu said “Africa only contributes about five percent to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet we are the most impacted” by climate change.

“Almost 20 million people have fled the continent due to these changes” and major droughts have caused “almost 52 million people to become food insecure,” said Mcunu, a PhD student at Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand University.

But she said that Africans have begun to adapt, using “indigeneous knowledge systems” incorporating “the knowledge that we have as Africans into the international research science and climate data awareness”.

“How is it that we’re not being spotlighted in these stories, that’s the main challenge we have as a continent,” she said.

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  Trump tells Iowans AOC and Democrats ‘want to kill our cows’: 
‘That means you’ll be next’

President also mocks ‘sleepy’ Joe Biden and ‘crazy’ Bernie Sanders

Andrew BuncombeDes Moines @AndrewBuncombe
Friday 31 January 2020 07:38

Donald Trump made a wild claim before a packed rally in the rural heartland state of Iowa, alleging that Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wanted to kill cows and “that means you’re next”.

During a campaign rally day before Democrats hold their first vote of the 2020 political cycle, the president launched in a blistering attack on his political rivals.

Yet he went even further, telling the audience in which agriculture is a crucial aspect of the economy and community, that Democrats wanted to kill cows

“During this campaign season, the good people of Iowa have had a front-row seat to the lunacy and the madness of the totally sick left,” Mr Trump said.

As he often does at his rallies, Mr Trump name-dropped the Green New Deal, a plan introduced by the New York congresswoman that calls for a drastic drop in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels to curb global warming.

But he ratcheted up his fear-mongering of the deal on Thursday, warning that Democrats would go after people after they get rid of cows. The plan does not call for getting rid of cows.

“The Green New Deal, which would crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. They want to kill our cows. You know why, right? You know why?” he asked, laughing.

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“Don’t say it. They want to kill our cows. That means you’re next.”

While deriding Democrats and their ideas, he bragged of his own policies saying, “I think I’m the smartest person.”

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Trump also talked up the new U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in an effort to win over Iowa farmers caught up in his tariff wars and take the focus off his impeachment trial in Washington.

“You’re going to have to get bigger tractors and a hell of a lot more land,” Mr Trump told a packed house at the city’s Drake University.

Additional reporting by Associated Press

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In 1917, Germany announces it will wage unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships, including passenger carriers, in war-zone waters.

In 1924, self-important senators, making pompous speeches for home consumption, delayed action on the Teapot Dome scandal.

In 1929, the Soviet Union expelled communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. He was assassinated in Mexico in August 1940.

In 1945, U.S. Army Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, was executed by firing squad for desertion. His was the first U.S. execution for desertion since the Civil War and the only one to take place during World War II. His remains, buried in an unmarked grave in France, were returned to the United States in 1987.

In 1953, nearly 2,000 people died when the North Sea flooded the Netherlands


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In 1958, Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

In 1961, NASA launched a rocket carrying Ham the Chimp into space.

In 1968, Viet Cong guerillas raided the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the Tan Son Nhut airbase and five hotels housing American officials as part of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.

In 1982, the Israeli Cabinet agreed to a multinational peacekeeping force to act as a buffer between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.

In 1990, Moscow's first McDonald's restaurant opened.

In 1991, Iraqi forces crossed into Saudi Arabia engaging allied troops in a firefight before being driven back across the border. Eleven U.S. Marines died and two were injured in another battle. They were the first Americans to die in the Gulf War ground combat.

In 1996, a suicide bombing at Sri Lanka's main bank killed nearly 100 people and injured more than 1,000.

In 2001, a Scottish court meeting in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan man, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground. The convicted bomber died in 2012.

In 2006, Samuel Alito was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote. He succeeded retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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In 2012, a U.S. congressional report accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of bungling a sting operation called "Fast and Furious" in which guns were sold to illegal "straw buyers" in an effort to catch drug cartel leaders, but some of the weapons were used in crimes, including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

In 2019, the New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks agreed to a blockbuster trade that sent Kristaps Porzingis, Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. to Dallas and DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews and Dennis Smith Jr. to New York.


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Terrifying 'bone-crushing' reptile related to modern crocodiles that feasted on dinosaur carcasses 230 million years ago is unearthed in Brazil

• The fossilised remains were found in Agudo, near Santa Maria in southern Brazil
• The animal has been named Dynamosuchus collisensis, meaning 'powerful croc'
• Despite having a powerful jaw, its bite would have been slow, researchers said
• Given this, the researchers think that the seven-feet-long beast was a scavenger

By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 31 January 2020 

A terrifying 'bone-crushing' reptile related to modern crocodiles that feasted on early dinosaur carcasses 230 million years ago has been unearthed in Brazil.

The creature walked on four legs but used its two hind limbs to run — and was the Tyrannosaurus Rex of its time, researchers said.

Named Dynamosuchus collisensis, it had a long snout and tail, huge jaws and large, blade like teeth adapted to eating meat — although it was likely a scavenger.

The creature's skull was also similar to that of T Rex's — and a double row of bony plates ran down its back. It belonged to a group called the ornithosuchids.

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A terrifying 'bone-crushing' reptile related to modern crocodiles that feasted on early dinosaur carcasses 230 million years ago has been unearthed in Brazil

'The extremely rare reptile would have been a real bone-crusher from the dawn of the dinosaur era,' said paper author and palaeontologist Rodrigo Müller of Brazil's Federal University of Santa Maria.

'This new species is the first from their group in Brazil — and only the fourth to be found across the world. The last discovery occurred fifty years ago.'

The first of this group was dug up in Lossiemouth, in the Scottish Highlands, in the 19th century, whereas the other two specimens came from Argentina.

DYNAMOSUCHUS COLLISENSIS STATS

Dynamosuchus collisensis was a relative of modern crocodiles that lived around 230 million years ago.

The seven-feet-long beast was unearthed below a hill in Agudo, southern Brazil.

Its name means 'powerful croc' — a reference to its 'impressive bite force'.

However, its bite speed would have been slow, suggesting it was a scavenger.

It would have walked on two fours but could have also run up on two. he remarkably preserved remains of D. collisensis were found at a so-called 'dinosaur graveyard' below a hill in picturesque Agudo, southern Brazil. 

The creature walked on four legs but used its two hind limbs to run — and was the Tyrannosaurus Rex of its time, researchers said 

Named Dynamosuchus collisensis, it had a long snout and tail, huge jaws and large, blade like teeth adapted to eating meat — although it was likely a scavenger

Ornithosuchids belonged to the so-called 'archosaurs', a group of animals that was split into two branches, with one having led to the dinosaurs and eventually birds and the other to the alligators and crocodiles we know today.

About seven feet long, Dynamosuchus was at the top of the food chain of its time, when the first dinosaurs had only just begun to evolve.

Its name means 'powerful croc' — bestowed as a nod to its 'impressive bite force', explained Dr Müller.

'Dynamosuchus was a crocodile "relative" or "cousin", rather than a direct "crocodile",' he added. 

'Their large and blade-like teeth were adapted to eat meat. But the bite speed was low, suggesting it was a scavenger.'

'Dynamosuchus probably preyed on early dinosaurs, lizards and mammalian ancestors called cynodonts,' said Dr Müller said. Pictured, a reconstruction of a Triassic

'Dynamosuchus probably preyed on early dinosaurs, lizards and mammalian ancestors called cynodonts. These were strange animals that looked like scaly rats,' said Dr Müller said.

'This animal probably caught slow animals and searched for dead animals  — like today's vultures and hyenas.'

'Their legs were upright, distinct from the sprawling posture of modern crocodiles. Furthermore, during fast gaits, this animal was able to run in a bipedal posture.'

'It lived side by side with the oldest dinosaurs that are about five feet long.'

'Therefore, Dynamosuchus was a big animal compared to those with which it was sharing the planet.'

The full findings of the study were published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 

The remarkably preserved remains of D. collisensis were found at a so-called 'dinosaur graveyard' below a hill in picturesque Agudo, southern Brazil

Stunning pictures of the Moon and the Milky Way are captured by an amateur astronomer from his back garden in Essex 

Essex-based insurance company employee Dawid Glawdzin, 37 (inset), often spends hours out at night in the freezing cold using his digital single-lens reflex camera to get the perfect shot. Among his subjects have been various nebulae (top right), as well as the Sun, the Moon (right and bottom right) and the Andromeda Galaxy that lies some 2.5 million

Fossil hunters use horses to pull 150 million-year-old six-foot Brachiosaurus arm bone from Utah gully in race against time before it was washed away

• Experts discover right humerus bone of  Brachiosaurus that walked the Earth 150 million years ago
• It stands more than six-feet high and had to pull it out of the park using horses because of its size
• The bone was unearthed at the Morrison Formation in Utah, which us a fossil-hunting haven for researchers
• This is the third upper arm bone of a Brachiosaurus found in the US - one in 1900 and the other 1955

By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 30 January 2020 

Paleontologists have uncovered the most complete Brachiosaurus upper arm bone in history.

Standing more than six feet tall, the right humerus belonged to a 6,600 pound dinosaur that once walked the Earth about 150 million years ago.

The bone was unearthed at the Morrison Formation in Utah, which us a fossil-hunting haven for researchers.

Because the bone is so large and the terrain so rugged, the team had to enlist the help of Clydesdale horses to pull it out of the ground.

To carefully move the bone, the team encased it in a ‘jacket’ of plaster and hessian that sat on two pieces of wood – the entire packaged weighed about 992 pounds.

Paleontologists have uncovered the most complete Brachiosaurus upper arm bone in history. Standing more than six feet tall, the right humerus belonged to a 6,600 pound dinosaur that once walked the Earth about 150 million years ago

Because the bone is so large and the terrain so rugged, the team had to enlist the help of Clydesdale horses to pull it out of the ground. To carefully move the bone, the team encased it in a ‘jacket’ of plaster and hessian that sat on two pieces of wood – the entire packaged weighed about 992 pounds

The artifact was first discovered in 2019 at a site on Utah State Park land by the palaeoartist on the team Brian Engh, ABC reports.

However, the team was unable to move it until the received the correct permits, which they did in October of last year. 

The humerus, which is believed to be the fifth largest every found, was spotted alongside other bones including several rib fragments, as well as fossil plants.

Prior to this discover, there have only been two other upper arm bones of a Brachiosaurus found in the US – one in 1900 and another in 1955.

The artifact was first discovered in 2019 at a site on Utah State Park land by the palaeoartist on the team Brian Engh, ABC reports. However, the team was unable to move it until the received the correct permits, which they did in October of last year

The bone stands taller than six feet and was larger than the researchers that discovered it

The humerus, which is believed to be the fifth largest every found, was spotted alongside other bones including several rib fragments, as well as fossil plants

And the recent find may also be the oldest, the researchers added, given where the fossils were found.

Anatomist Mathew Wedel of the Western University of Health Sciences, wrote in an email to ABC:’ We are particularly excited because this Brachiosaurus was found very near several other identifiable sauropod sites, petrified logs, and plant fragments ... in the lower layers of the Morrison Formation, which pushes these lineages back by several million years.’

Brachiosaurus, meaning arm lizard, were herbivorous saurapods, a family of very large plant eating dinosaurs that walked mostly on four legs.

The recent find may also be the oldest, the researchers added, given where the fossils were found

They lived primarily in Algeria, Portugal, Tanzania, and the United States during the Late Jurassic period, 155 to 140 million years ago.

They are believed to have been around 100 feet long on average and around 41 feet tall.

Dr. Stephen Poropat of Swinburne University said: ‘Often in the media what is presented as Brachiosaurus is based a lot on Giraffatitan [a closely related African genus of dinosaur].’

‘The more fossils we find, the better understanding we'll get of what Brachiosaurus was like as an animal — its anatomy and where it sits on the dinosaur family tree, its behavior and its ecology.’

WHAT WERE THE BRACHIOSAURUS DINOSAURS AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM?

Brachiosaurus, meaning arm lizard, were herbivorous saurapods, a family of very large plant eating dinosaurs that walked mostly on four legs.

They lived pirmarily in Algeria, Portugal, Tanzania, and the United States during the  Late Jurassic period, 155 to 140 million years ago.

Brachiosaurus held its head very high at the end of its elongated neck and it is likely to have eaten the leaves on tall tree-like plants.

They are believed to have been around 100 feet (30 metres) long on average and around 41 feet (12.5 metres) tall. 

A full fossilised skeleton, such as one on display at the Berlin Natural History Museum, can weigh as much as 50 tons.

As a herbivore, whose spatulate teeth prevented it from chewing, the animal harboured plant remains in its stomach for long periods of time. 

Some of this undigested material was fossilised and can be studied today. 

When scientists compared plant remains in East African specimens with remains in their North American cousins, they found differences between the types of flora, indicating the plants grew in different climates.

Since the Brachiosaurus could not swim, this is seen as evidence that Africa and North America had already started to drift apart from each other.

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