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What are the best dinosaurs
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kingwingin
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Thesaurus
discarded, disused, done for, dusty, extinct, fossil, gone
discarded, disused, done for, dusty, extinct, fossil, gone
efyu_lemonardo
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No dinosaur thread should be without one of my favorite online comics from years back:
Dinosaur Comics was basically the exact same set of panels every week, but the writing made those panels shine!
Could you explain to a layman, what is the connection between the content of the atmosphere and the size of such animals? Is it just that more CO2 means bigger plants which means bigger plant-eaters? 100 tons is just incomprehensibly huge for a land animal.. How did that thing support its own weight, let alone eat enough to survive?
Dinosaur Comics was basically the exact same set of panels every week, but the writing made those panels shine!
Could you explain to a layman, what is the connection between the content of the atmosphere and the size of such animals? Is it just that more CO2 means bigger plants which means bigger plant-eaters? 100 tons is just incomprehensibly huge for a land animal.. How did that thing support its own weight, let alone eat enough to survive?
Cro-Magnon
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I think he meant "imagine how much CO2 must have an animal like that emitted"
ediy: now I'm unsure.
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Agreed.
Styracosaurus and Torosaurus >> Triceratops
I've always preferred the freaks in the dino families to their super common relatives. Spikes EVERYWHERE > regular frill.
Yup.
He looks so evil, seriously.Just incredible.
Carnotaurus has always been my fav.
He completely lacks elegance, but he's truly fucking scary.
But seriously, what were the arms even for?? They don't even look stable enough to help with mating or getting off the ground or anything! Unlike other large predators, once it fell, could it even get up??
Shogmaster
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And he is probably right. LA's NHM has a juvenile T-Rex on display next to an adult and it's uncanny how different the body proportions are. Much more elongated and slender snout, and much longer legs to the body, almost like a Velocirator, except much bigger and tiny forelimb.
Reverend Funk
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Snakeneck
whoa that things bad ass
rhophiehalul78
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what an interesting video. thanks for sharing.
Carnotaurus wasn't a bruiser like larger theropods, it was a sprinter that likely ran down prey like a modern day cheetah. Big arms would have been unnecessary weight for a dinosaur built for speed.
They're vestigial limbs. Once the Rex and the subspecies went bipedal, they no longer needed they're from legs and they shrunk over time.
MisterGrey3000
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Sweet!
TVtropes has some pretty nice useful notes pages on all kinds of different forms of prehistoric animals if you need some help.
Though they do lump the proto-mammals/stem-mammals (aka the Paleozoic non-mammalian synapsids like Dimetrodon) in with the non-dinosaurian reptiles which is more than a little irksome considering that synapsids didn't branch off from sauropsids and they even acknowledge this.
Despite this though, I remember most of the pages having good information and being pretty fun to read; I'd totally recommend using it as a guide, especially for non-dinosaurian prehistoric life.
Why not? They must have had more than enough musculature in their legs and the tail.
akachan ningen
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This one because it has those long wizard sleeves.
User 73706
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Dunno about species, but my favorite depiction of a dinosaur is this feathered T-rex:
It actually manages to capture a sense of vulnerability and curiosity almost like that of a gorilla, rather than making it look like SCALY MURDER MACHINE WITH CROSSFIT LEGS IS COMING TO EAT YOU the way pop culture usually depicts them.
It actually manages to capture a sense of vulnerability and curiosity almost like that of a gorilla, rather than making it look like SCALY MURDER MACHINE WITH CROSSFIT LEGS IS COMING TO EAT YOU the way pop culture usually depicts them.
Anton Sugar
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^ Just ordered that! Gonna hang it on my wall. Love it.
Some gaffer made this. Perfect for team feathers:
Some gaffer made this. Perfect for team feathers:
Can you imagine running into one of these bad ass bruhvs? Shit was crazy back then.
They need to reboot that shit! Best dinosaur toys ever, they actually based the Rex in toy story off that model. Therefore Krulos' T-Rex is best dinosaur.
Cow Mengde
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind. Just going through the history of the planet.
Junior Asparagus
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I definitely owned this on VHS, along with like a dozen other dino videos.
Omegasquash
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OP nailed it for me. Utahraptor. Big.
Ok I guess I can see it like the wisdom teeth/appendix of the dino family.
Yas lol.
Is there any known photos of them before they got destroyed?
Spaceman Spiff
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Neat. Such a shame stuff like that gets destroyed (of course, so much DID in WWII) but it stinks that they've barely found anything since.
avengers23
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The hip answer:
The actual answer:
The kid answer:
The actual answer:
The kid answer:
Didn't they just find some decent remains? The fossils (Shown in red, Berlin are orange) revealed some crazy stuff, especially the short legs, small pelvis, and flat feet.
Spaceman Spiff
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There are more complete specimens in the hands of private collectors, but these are equally inaccessible to science.
Happily, the team that described the new partial remains last year has returned to the site and recovered some new material, (video, mostly in Italian).
Having to own full fossil skeletons would be neat, but too bad they couldn't also be researched in a sort of "you can keep these, but let us take a look at it too".
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Here's something for the ankylosaurus lovers, an insanely well preserved fossil (the one they found in a tar sand mine years ago I believe):
WAAAAAAAAAAAT. That's incredible
Or at least make copies of them like Museums do at least. That's kinda a bummer.
Master Yoshi
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I want this movie.
Trust me, as someone who's actually see most of the Land Before Time sequels, you don't.
Megalosaurus, cause bone scrotums
wow! so nice to see a fossil in that state! amazing!
I always had a soft spot for the JP velociraptors (so Deynonichus). But I guess a lot from them is just "fan-fiction", not only their size, also their intelligence or how good hunters they are in the movies.
Looks like some type of chaos tainted creature from a Warhammer 40k novel.What about unique-looking ones?
I remember the second one being alright (although wasn't a fan of the singing they started in it), and rented 3, but ended up playing NES instead.
Don Bluth's original was amazing. Too bad they had to edit the main fight scene, due to the original scene being "too scary for children". I miss his darker kids movies...
Monkey_Plunkett
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Fantastic thread!
Wow! That is just, spectacular! are there any more photos of it?
Bit of a soft spot for Styracosaurus it was one of my first dino-rider toys, and the beginning of a massive collection of them, my other toy i got with it was a Monocolonius, who had a bad ass nose horn
There were many other varieties of Ceratopsians
Man if this was rebooted and well done it would be the best thing ever.
My favourite dino as a child though was Deinonychus, I was always pissed Speilberg called the ones in JP Velociraptors but the film was beyond my wildest dreams so ill let that one slide lol
Here's something for the ankylosaurus lovers, an insanely well preserved fossil (the one they found in a tar sand mine years ago I believe):
Wow! That is just, spectacular! are there any more photos of it?
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Bit of a soft spot for Styracosaurus it was one of my first dino-rider toys, and the beginning of a massive collection of them, my other toy i got with it was a Monocolonius, who had a bad ass nose horn
There were many other varieties of Ceratopsians
Can you imagine running into one of these bad ass bruhvs? Shit was crazy back then.
Man if this was rebooted and well done it would be the best thing ever.
My favourite dino as a child though was Deinonychus, I was always pissed Speilberg called the ones in JP Velociraptors but the film was beyond my wildest dreams so ill let that one slide lol
Septimus Prime
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I was just thinking this morning, I think someone on the Final Fantasy team is a paleontology nut. I mean, you have Allosaurus and T. rex in the original game and a few others as very tough (but often ultra rare) random encounters, and then you have the infamous Brachiosaur in FFVI, but then you have...
Phorusrhacos in FFXI:
And--even crazier--Megistotherium in FFXIII:
Phorusrhacos in FFXI:
And--even crazier--Megistotherium in FFXIII:
These are not animals that laypeople would just know about. With the latter, even I was like, "What the hell is that?" when I was playing FFXIII and had to look it up.
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