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Pink dinosaur grabs centre stage on remote New Zealand volcano

AUCKLAND (AFP) - Scientists using a camera to monitor a remote New Zealand volcano over the Internet have struck an odd problem -- a pink dinosaur.

New Zealand's Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) have installed a digital camera in the crater of the volcano which makes up most of White Island in the Bay of Plenty, east of here.

The often active volcano draws tourists by boat but most people do not go ashore on the uninhabited, rumbling island.

To keep a close watch, GNS installed a digital camera on the island and post a shot taken every hour on their site www.geonet.org.nz.

But suddenly a pink dinosaur has appeared in the shot.

"Some wag has glued a pink dinosaur in front of our digital camera," GNS' John Callan said.

"A number of people have been emailing us asking what the dinosaur is all about."

They are not planning on removing it, counting on the sulphur and high acid environment to deal to the creature.

Source - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ce_offbeat

sweet, we can watch the thing melt live .

how long do you think it'll take?
place your bets:

i think it'll take 5 months for dino to "naturally" die.

Thats not just any Dinosaur, thats DINO!!!! SAVE HIM! Why God! Why not Barny, the cheap knockoff that rots the kids brains instead! Why is it always the GOOD ONES!!!!! *SOB*

R.I.P Dino Flintstone 1960-2004

Naw (B-slaps Ty for being a candyend sob sister), dino will accrete sulphur crystals, petrify and live forever.

Alien Speaker: "And we knew very little about the past civilization on this planet until we found this fossil in the volcano. The people of this planet were purple, googly-eyed, and reptilian beings. Other bones we have found substantiate this claim."

LOL!

Yabba-dabba-doo!

I've been out to White Island a couple of times. A very barren, desolate place - and the volcano is VERY active! Nice to see a prank pulled with the web-cam.

I just can't believe that someone was dumb enough to get close enough to leave the dinosaur .

heh, one could be excused for thining that this was another "life on mars" thread

woodchip wrote:Naw (B-slaps Ty for being a candyend sob sister), dino will accrete sulphur crystals, petrify and live forever.

I was only kidding..

*returns B-Slap*

and I still lead by one! muahaha

SAVE DINO!!!! SAVE HIMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

haha

good old flinstones

That's great!

I'm glad they'll leave it till it deteriorates. Lots of scientists could use some silly/light humor. Fortunately, the person who propped Dino in place did so to not abstruct the camera's view.