New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron 69
SchrodingerZ writes "95 million years ago, the dinosaur Sauroniops pachytholus roamed northern Africa. Fossils, originally found in southern Morocco, only consisted of the upper skull, which included the eerie looking eye socket which resembles the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings movies. Using skull comparison, it is theorized the two-legged meat-eater would have been 40 feet tall, challenging the Tyrannosaurus Rex in height. More fossils are needed for a full analysis, but so far it is very clear this dinosaur towered over many."
Full circle (Score:3, Insightful)
Sauron was named after dinosaurs, so why not?
Lets name some trees aftwr treants, while we're at it, and name some hobbled kid Bilbo.
eye bones connected to the head bones (Score:3, Insightful)
One has only to look at the sclerotic plates found in the eyes of birds to realize that they are dinosaurs.
What "eerie looking eye socket"? (Score:5, Insightful)
eerie looking eye socket which resembles the Eye of Sauron
Firstly I'm not sure how much an eye socket could resemble the Eye of Sauron, except that it might be round, and secondly there's no mention or pictures of eye sockets in the article, so what gives?