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I've always had a soft spot for the Stegosaurus and Giganotosaurus, but my all time fave rave is the Triceratops. Peaceful until fucked with - which frankly is the best way to live. And that profile!

Stunning.

For the OP and anyone else who lives in the Vancouver area, I highly recommend you check out the new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit that opened at Science World on May 30th. I took the kids last weekend and had a great time.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Forgot your campaign went live, bish. Pledged!

It's not just the lack of feathers that's a problem. There's something to be said about attempting to reconstruct an animal based only on its skeletal structure.

Here's an illustrative example:

Look at this badass


Must have been a beast to behold:


Or maybe:


Right?

Spoiler

???

Yup! I'm sure you know about this book, but John Conway's All Yesterdays is a great speculative look on how dinosaurs COULD have acted and looked, just based on our own misconceptions about modern wildlife and skeletal recreations. There's only so much we can understand from skeletons alone.

Giraffatitan rolling in the mud:

Allosaurus with speculative "head sac":

"Fuzzy" T rex (I am hanging this on my wall):

dawww LOOK AT DAT LITTLE DEINONYCHUS

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

here's another illustrative example:

Can you recognize these three existing animals from these reconstructions based only on their skeletons?

Answer:

Spoiler

Elephant, horse, rhinoceros

Yup! I'm sure you know about this book, but John Conway's All Yesterdays is a great speculative look on how dinosaurs COULD have acted and looked, just based on our own misconceptions about modern wildlife and skeletal recreations. There's only so much we can understand from skeletons alone.

Yep, I'm quoting directly from that book

It's one of the reasons I've become much less interested in depictions of dinosaurs in the media.

 

[zeemumu]

Triceratops was my favorite as a kid.

 

[Sephzilla]

Spoiler

Real answer = T-Rex

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

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):

Thanks for sharing!

 

[jiggle]

Triceratops of course
Look awesome and doesn't eat other weetle dino

 

[thelatestmodel]

I'm really surprised to see so many ankylosaurus fans in here. As a child, I always liked the strongest, and the ankylosaurus seemed to be a dinosaur that could beat all others in my imagination. He had cool armor and a hammer tail. I generally thought bipedal dinosaurs looked cooler, but ankylosaurus was my favorite just because I believed he would win in any fight.

Me too actually. I saw this thread and instantly thought "Ankylosaurus!" too, there must be quite a few of us out there.

Anky fucking rules, that tail club is just so awesome.

I'm quite partial to Iguanadon as well, I always remember learning about their cool thumb spikes. Also the iguana is my favourite present-day animal.

 

[Mighty Chin]

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I've always had a soft spot for the Stegosaurus and Giganotosaurus, but my all time fave rave is the Triceratops. Peaceful until fucked with - which frankly is the best way to live. And that profile!

Stunning.

For the OP and anyone else who lives in the Vancouver area, I highly recommend you check out the new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit that opened at Science World on May 30th. I took the kids last weekend and had a great time.

Cool I'll look into it.

 

[Lorcain]

Triceratops. In all of the dino movies I watched in school growing up, the triceratops was one of the only dinosaurs that would stand up to a T-Rex. I thought that took incredible courage. I don't know if there was ever any scientific proof of that actually happening, triceratops standing toe to toe with T-Rex's, but the three horned armored plant eater represented bravery for me as a kid.

 

[tcrunch]

not dinosaurs
fite me

dinosaur in the middle is t-rex, I don't know why the man is sherlock

 

[Mr-Joker]

Mine would have to be the T-Rex, I always wanted a pet T-Rex that could breath fire when I was little kid...


I never got one. ;_;

 

[titiklabingapat]

It's not just the lack of feathers that's a problem. There's something to be said about attempting to reconstruct an animal based only on its skeletal structure.

Here's an illustrative example:

Look at this badass


Must have been a beast to behold:


Or maybe:


Right?

Spoiler

actually that skull belongs to... a hippo

I was just about to post something something like this. What advances have happened the last few years that what we think the dinosaurs looked like are highly accurate? Ive always found it curious that ancient animals are depicted skinnier than modern day ones.

 

[GungHo]

I'm really surprised to see so many ankylosaurus fans in here. As a child, I always liked the strongest, and the ankylosaurus seemed to be a dinosaur that could beat all others in my imagination. He had cool armor and a hammer tail. I generally thought bipedal dinosaurs looked cooler, but ankylosaurus was my favorite just because I believed he would win in any fight.

They seem like cool dudes until you piss em off. Like little Scotsmen/dwarfs. Hanging out, drinking ale, headbutting each other until some asshole from the next town over comes in and says something about someone's sister and then it's on like Donkey Kong.

 

[MMarston]

For the OP and anyone else who lives in the Vancouver area, I highly recommend you check out the new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit that opened at Science World on May 30th. I took the kids last weekend and had a great time.

Ah, thank god I found out about this.

Also, I am personally glad nobody said Mosasaur or Plesiosaur so far. (They're not dinos)

Anyways, some of my faves that are not T-rex.

Giganotosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Argentinosaurus

Baryonyx

 

[BumRush]

This is a boring choice since there has been so much focus on the sarupods, but im gonna say Argentinasaurus.



Can you even comprehend its size? This thing had to eat every moment it was alive to facilitate its size. This thing was so big, it could knock over a T-Rex with its tail.




And this thing.. For everything to grow so supersize. Imagine how hot it must have been. Imagine the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The entire ecosystem on massive steroids.

I bet a human being would probably be sick from just trying to breathe the air. It would be so hot it would be unbearable. What else can explain the sheer size? 100 fucking tons. Elephants are between 4-7 Tons, and they spend all day eating too. It's completely ouragous. Gigantic doesn't describe these fucking things.

I love how the guy in the picture is waving. GTFO of there dude!!!!!!!!

 

[Anton Sugar]

I was just about to post something something like this. What advances have happened the last few years that what we think the dinosaurs looked like are highly accurate? Ive always found it curious that ancient animals are depicted skinnier than modern day ones.

We'll never know Pretty sure all that soft tissue is completely gone/irrecoverable. All we can do is speculate.

Which is why I love John Conway. He thinks beyond "carnivores vs herbivores!!!" in his paleo art and recreations.

His recreation of a cow, based on skeleton alone. Looks pretty fast:

His cow-like chunk parasaur:

Peaceful Rex:

A traditional recreation of leaellynasaur vs his own:

 

[Red Mage]

Ankylosaurus

Badass armor

Best Dinosaur ever. I even made a Druid in Pathfinder so I can have one. ^_^

 

[Anton Sugar]

Sauropod lovers should check out this Samsung VR promotion for Jurassic World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEKjamS9cTs&app=desktop

Apatosaur!

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Spinosaurus was pretty cool, with its mysterious history and destruction in WWII. But with the recent scientific discoveries, I think it's the most interesting carnivore that ever lived. I highly recommend the documentary, Bigger Than T-Rex, for insight into the new Spino science. Seeing the newest skeletal reconstruction featured in that doc in person blew my mind. Absolutely astonishing how massive that creature was.

It's just a shame about the smear campaign the incompetent boobs that made JP3 waged against it.

Oh it's a realo dino? About to check that doc out, nice.

 

[Skii]

Oh it's a realo dino? About to check that doc out, nice.

It is the largest land carnivore that ever lived. Such a cool dinosaur.

 

[Snaku]

Would anybody be opposed to my creating a dinosaur/paleontology OT? I feel like the subject should have a permanent home on gaf.

Oh it's a realo dino? About to check that doc out, nice.

Yup, and that's one of the best paleo docs that's come out in recent years. I enjoy how it's just as much about the investigation into where the fossil came from as it is about the animal itself. It's all very fascinating.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Yeah, actual velociraptors were the size of turkeys.

When it comes to JP, I'm sure demoncarnotaur or brandon can correct me, but I think Crichton based his description of raptors in the book on deinonychus. Utahraptor was discovered around the same time when JP was is post-production (or release), too.

The raptors in JP are inaccurately huge.


Good stuff. I've become more interested in Achillobator because a) what a cool fucking name and b) it's basically the same as raptors in JP

Good stuff to you too. I often compare them with big cats in the present, and imagine all of these dromaeosaueidae each have their own unique prints to differentiate them from one another.

I have a spot for the Utahraptor as well because its sickle claw was my first "adult" piece of my dinosaur collection.

And the book Raptor Red is something I hope becomes a movie or game.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I think they all look cool as fuck. I challenge anyone to find me a dumb looking dinosaur.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Would anybody be opposed to my creating a dinosaur/paleontology OT? I feel like the subject should have a permanent home on gaf.

Go for it! I'd subscribe. I made a paleo/dinosaur art thread a while back.

Good stuff to you too. I often compare them with big cats in the present, and imagine all of these dromaeosaueidae each have their own unique prints to differentiate them from one another.

I have a spot for the Utahraptor as well because its sickle claw was my first "adult" piece of my dinosaur collection.

And the book Raptor Red is something I hope becomes a movie or game.

Nice! I had a deinonychus claw when I was younger I read Raptor Red in middle or high school, I loved it. At one point, it was supposed to be adapted into a movie, but I think it died.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

Definitely stegosaurus and t-rex for me. I was an 80s kid.

 

[Kinsei]

Archaeopteryx is my favorite. It's just so cute!

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

I think they all look cool as fuck. I challenge anyone to find me a dumb looking dinosaur.

Watch Dino King and see their adaption of the Therizy.

 

[Staccat0]

The walking tank Ankylosaurus

WORD

 

[Cow Mengde]

what

this is amazing.

And Tyrannosaurus rex is still my favorite. <3

It was announced towards the end of April. This discovery rocked the dinosaur world to say the least.

 

[MMarston]

Would anybody be opposed to my creating a dinosaur/paleontology OT? I feel like the subject should have a permanent home on gaf.

I support this. Used to be one heck of a dino nerd when I was just a kid, so I'd be all for it.

 

[tcrunch]

I think they all look cool as fuck. I challenge anyone to find me a dumb looking dinosaur.

mononykus

 

[Cow Mengde]

mononykus

Alverazsaurs are awesome. So strange.

 

[Itchy//Tasty]

Anyone else a fan of conceptual artist Ricardo Delgado? If not, you should be. He did a fantastic series of wordless comics called Age of Reptiles. They are an absolute MUST-own for dinosaur fans.

Spoiler

Make sure you specify 'artist' when you Google him unless you want to see a hench male model.

 

[Spinosaurus]

Spinosaurus was pretty cool

Spinosaurus sure is cool

Thanks fellas

I'm going with Carnotaurus, personally.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

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):

Just incredible.

Carnotaurus is freaky as fuck.
Seriously, it's terrifying.
And those arms really disturb me, LOL.

Carnotaurus has always been my fav.

 

[titiklabingapat]

We'll never know Pretty sure all that soft tissue is completely gone/irrecoverable. All we can do is speculate.

Which is why I love John Conway. He thinks beyond "carnivores vs herbivores!!!" in his paleo art and recreations.

His recreation of a cow, based on skeleton alone. Looks pretty fast:



His cow-like chunk parasaur:



Peaceful Rex:



A traditional recreation of leaellynasaur vs his own:

I love those. I need to buy his book. Scientists are not exactly artsy people so I love his alternative takes on what extinct animals might have looked like.

Great examples are modern birds too. Those come in so many sizes depending on feather configurations, that if we go by skeleton alone, they would all look like those swans he illustrated lol.

 

[badboy78660]

not dinosaurs
fite me

dinosaur in the middle is t-rex, I don't know why the man is sherlock

 

[LeroyPantwether]

yup

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

Nature saved the best for last.

 

[charlagame]

Always liked Yangchuanosaurus, kinda a smaller t-Rex from China that has bony ridges on their faces.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

For the OP and anyone else who lives in the Vancouver area, I highly recommend you check out the new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit that opened at Science World on May 30th. I took the kids last weekend and had a great time.

I'm going there this weekend! I saw an ad for it on a bus.

 

[Green Mamba]

For the OP and anyone else who lives in the Vancouver area, I highly recommend you check out the new Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit that opened at Science World on May 30th. I took the kids last weekend and had a great time.

Having volunteered at this exhibit when it was in Minnesota last year I would also highly recommend seeing it. Possibly the best dinosaur exhibit I've seen in a museum to date. Lots of fun skeletons you wouldn't see in a typical North American museum and a lot of neat interfaces to learn from.

 

[Oberon]

The majestic Brontosaurus of course

I am big fan of the spinosaurus too

 

[DarkLegion]

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):

Have there been other preserved dinosaurs in similar condition?

 

[Gigglepoo]

Raptor Rex

*points to avatar*

 

[MrBadger]

 

[Amalthea]

One of my favorite groups overall are the Hadrosaurs.

 

[Ryaaan14]

Tyrannosaurus Rex is literally the Kanye West of dinosaurs.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Looks like any I would have posted are accounted for.