<story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?&lt;p&gt;Words can have different meanings in different contexts.&lt;p&gt;In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.&lt;p&gt;Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.&lt;p&gt;It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &amp;quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&amp;quot; is a rock.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s in the perfectly preserved &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&amp;#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&amp;#x27;s what fossils are.&lt;p&gt;I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>I think the title is fine but they are right I will be seeing this article shared on Facebook in a day or so and people will assume they mean it was preserved as an organism not turned into a rock.  I knew what they meant from the title and I’m sure so will most intellectually inclined individuals but there is a huge market of people who eat up pop sci (or their titles at least) articles and it perpetuates fake science even if the article isn’t actually doing that.&lt;p&gt;It’s basically like those articles that say “scientist proves existence of higher dimensions” where everyone who tends to read scientific literature figures they mean “has solved some physics equation using 4 dimensions instead of 3” but the majority who see it only through popsci articles and groups think the scientist has found physical evidence of another universe.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?&lt;p&gt;Words can have different meanings in different contexts.&lt;p&gt;In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.&lt;p&gt;Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.&lt;p&gt;It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &amp;quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&amp;quot; is a rock.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s in the perfectly preserved &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&amp;#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&amp;#x27;s what fossils are.&lt;p&gt;I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konart</author><text>&amp;gt;Words can have different meanings in different contexts.&lt;p&gt;Sure. It would be much better to put it as &amp;quot;perfectly preserved fossil&amp;quot; or something like that.&lt;p&gt;I understand that for people who read articles about “perfectly preserved” dinosaurs often this instantly means &amp;quot;fine details can be discerned in the fossils&amp;quot;, but for the majority of people who saw  the title while scrolling the news feed - this means much more.</text></comment>