Mummified Dinosaur Coverup?

Discovered in 1999 by a 16-year old student, and excavated in 2004, a mummified dinosaur still in its skin is suddenly the talk of the net.

What took so long and why is this now news all of a sudden?

You can almost hear the scientists pouring over the carcass of this long-dead animal saying: "Keep your skin on, Dakota," (that's what they named it, after the location of the discovery) "we'll get around to letting the world know about you eventually!"

And so they did, and so it did also (keep it's skin on, that is), because this mummified dinosaur simply didn't want to give it up to decay, or long delay either, it seems.

Way to go, Dakota!

At least he's showing science a thing or two, such as the fact that -- with his well-preserved bones maintaining the spacing between the vertibrae -- Dakota is proving that dinosaurs in general were bigger and faster than believed possible.

Considering their enormous size, and earth's present gravity, wouldn't that also indicate that gravity was once a lot less -- and therefore less constant than we presently think -- to accommodate these giants of antiquity?

And if gravity has changed, what else might we need to question about the dead and dusty past and our present paradigms of scientific attempts to reconstruct a facsimile of past events.

Or -- correct me if I'm wrong here -- haven't fossilized human footprints been found inside dinosaur footprints, as if tracking the beasts; and if gravity was weak enough to allow giant dinosaurs to move about on land, without dragging their tails, how did this affect the two-legged forebear of our present human species?

Something to think about, don't you think?

Oh, and while you've got your thinking cap on . . .

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