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What are the best dinosaurs
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SliceSabre
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Brachiosaurus
I love the absurdly massive ones.
I love the absurdly massive ones.
Green Mamba
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There have been a number of hadrosaur (duck-billed) dinosaurs found in mummy like states. One of the earliest and most well known is the "Trachodon mummy," a specimen of Edmontosaurus that was discovered in 1908. It's spooky looking, kind of resembles a modern carcass you might find on the side of the road.
Here's another mummified hadrosaur, this one a much more recent find of a relative of Edmontosaurus called Brachylophosaurus.
Kronosaurus has the combo of looking cool and having a baller name as well.
Everything from earth's ancient oceans were terrifying. Come to think of it, most things from our oceans today and completely terrifying as well.
Damn oceans, you scary!
And to think I wanted to be a marine biologist as a child...
Anton Sugar
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There have been a number of hadrosaur (duck-billed) dinosaurs found in mummy like states. One of the earliest and most well known is the "Trachodon mummy," a specimen of Edmontosaurus that was discovered in 1908. It's spooky looking, kind of resembles a modern carcass you might find on the side of the road.
Here's another mummified hadrosaur, this one a much more recent find of Brachylophosaurus.
Wow. Is that muscle/tissue detail in the shoulders??
Will do when I go this summer! When I was little, there was a huge fossil exhibition near the PNE. To this day, I can still remember seeing the big, newly discovered Utahraptor and the sheer size of a Brachiosaur. Great experience. Maybe one day I'll make it to the Royal Tyrrel Museum...
As for the topic, I've always been huge on raptors of all kind (except Oviraptor cause of the beak). I'm a heathen cause I prefer the JP no-feather look, so start booing me
Dinos and mammal-like reptiles with sails like Spinosaur and Dimetrodon have always been awesome. Oh, and Dilos and Carnotaurs!
Cow Mengde
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Brand new just announced (like a few hours ago) dinosaur, Regaliceratops, nicknamed Hellboy!
Devil horns on a t-rex cousin. It just works. Makes it more menacing.
not dinosaurs
fite me
dinosaur in the middle is t-rex, I don't know why the man is sherlock
YAS!
Melon Husk
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T-Rex, but if I wanted a dinosaur to magically pop into my backyard, I'd pick something else to trot around.
Edit: Okay I pick C from the picture above. Sadly it would be shot the moment it flew away... so maybe Triceratops would be the best one.
Edit: Okay I pick C from the picture above. Sadly it would be shot the moment it flew away... so maybe Triceratops would be the best one.
Cow Mengde
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BTW, I think it's time Neogaf had its own Dinosaur OT.
Anton Sugar
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Do it! You'd probably do it justice.
Cow Mengde
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I'm a junior.
I'm down, if someone makes an awesome one. The JW thread is the only place to really talk about nostalgic dino toys and collections and whatnot. Plus we need more dino art (as long as all prehistoric animals are allowed in too!) instead of one topic a year.
Anton Sugar
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Oh man. I didn't even notice.
I feel too rusty on my paleo knowledge to make a good OT.
Hobbestetrician
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I will never get over the fact that these all used to actually exist. Just incredible.
Cow Mengde
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I could type something up and PM it to you, and you start the thread.
Septimus Prime
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Hell yes. Let's talk about Anomalocaris and Dunkleosteus all day!
Cow Mengde
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Let's come up with an OT name.
How about Walking With Dinosaur GAF and other prehistoric creatures |OT|
How about Walking With Dinosaur GAF and other prehistoric creatures |OT|
Anton Sugar
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+1
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Styracosaurus has always fascinated me when I was a kid. He's just crazy looking. Same with Torosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus.
Or the Triassic therapsids, I was always fascinated at animals that were not quite reptiles or mammals.
Lystrosaurus was the shit.
Caddywompus
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This one was mentioned earlier but I really liked "Bigger Than T-Rex" too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LlkiA7_H5M
The animation is not very good but it's really interesting how they explain many of the skulls of different species may just be the same dinosaur just at different stages in life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3KchANWhAs
This is a pretty good dinosaur series in general, depending on what the theme is but there are a handful of these shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRB3-wQTZ8s
Cow Mengde
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Ok, give me a day or two to type up the OT. I'm gonna try and figure out how to do this since we're encompassing more than just dinosaurs. Dinos are my specialty.
Damn, I wish Christian Slater would narrate every Dinosaur documentary.
I liked the ones in Turok : Dinosaur Hunter on N64.
The T-Rex had a cyborg laser eye attached and missiles and shit and bad guys rode giant stegosaurses with missile launchers on it's side.
BUT YOU SEE, This shit wasn't made cause hurrduurr internet and oh man such wacky randomness shit. It was made cause it was cool ideas, not cause someone fucking posted that fucking dinosaucers picture for the billionth time. But because it was a cool design and pretty fitting with the game.
The T-Rex had a cyborg laser eye attached and missiles and shit and bad guys rode giant stegosaurses with missile launchers on it's side.
BUT YOU SEE, This shit wasn't made cause hurrduurr internet and oh man such wacky randomness shit. It was made cause it was cool ideas, not cause someone fucking posted that fucking dinosaucers picture for the billionth time. But because it was a cool design and pretty fitting with the game.
Septimus Prime
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Yeah, I love Lystrosaurus. Wasn't it like the dominant genus for a while, since it survived and/or came back first from the Great Dying? I remember reading somewhere once that, like, 90% of the entire world's terrestrial animals were Lystrosaurus for a time.Or the Triassic therapsids, I was always fascinated at animals that were not quite reptiles or mammals.
Lystrosaurus was the shit.
I don't remember too much, but let me know if you need help.
Shogmaster
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Apparently there aren't as much dinosaur species as we think there were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
Cow Mengde
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Not everybody agrees with that. Ontogeny is a heavily debated subject.
Kyleripman
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Glad I'm not the only one that doesn't like that picture, lol.
That John Conway book looks fantastic.
Dinos can be the focus, but would be nice to discuss a variety of new fossils and pretty art. Ice age stuff is awesome too
MoonsaultSlayer
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I wish I could create digital artwork of my own interpretations of dinosaurs but I don't even have patience with the ol pad and pencil.
HazySaiyan
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I think Toy Story is a pretty cool guy. Eh plays video games and doesnt afraid of anything.
Shogmaster
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Unless the opposition's evidence is very convincing, I'm going with Horner.
Third Strike
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Dinos can be the focus, but would be nice to discuss a variety of new fossils and pretty art. Ice age stuff is awesome too
The Cenozoic is my favorite era (pre-modern). It's fascinating since the world was similar to today, yet it was very different. Terror birds and other large flightless birds running amok, leftovers of the theropods that dominated during the time of the dinosaurs. Larger and stranger versions of animals that exist today. Mammals that existed that don't have any close living relatives today. The evolution of humans, and our close relatives that co-existed with us.
I just love how everything was ginormous and had sabre teeth. Did the world really need a giant grow or sloth the size of a tree? But it happened! The more I look at modern day mammals like rhinos, hippos, and elephants, it surprises me they are still around. They look so odd, and have that "prehistoric look" to them. So sad that elephants and rhinos will be joining their old cousins soon
Kyleripman
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Demoncarnotaur
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boooo!
Horner is a smart guy, but he frustrates me how he tends to deal in extremes only.. and a lot of his idea are only half baked. I could get into a debate about this for hours, but I just am far too lazy right now. :lol
Lystrosaurus was the John Cena of the Permio-Triassic.Lystrosaurus was the shit.
95% of land vertebrates in some early Triassic fossil beds are Lystrosaurus.
Septimus Prime
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I prefer the Paleozoic.
Large megafauna (as well as apex predators) tend to have trouble adapting to changing conditions. They're so finely tuned to be optimal for their respective environments, that if that environment changes even just a little--say there's a drought, or a new competitor moves in--they tend to die off first. For some of the Cenozoic animals, there was the additional problem of a the "new competitor" being humans, who dominated every environment they showed up in and also hunted their competitors as prey. Even C. megalodon, the 50-ft. mega-shark appeared to die off when the smaller, sleeker, smarter orcas came onto the scene.I just love how everything was ginormous and had sabre teeth. Did the world really need a giant grow or sloth the size of a tree? But it happened! The more I look at modern day mammals like rhinos, hippos, and elephants, it surprises me they are still around. They look so odd, and have that "prehistoric look" to them. So sad that elephants and rhinos will be joining their old cousins soon
Shogmaster
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I find his hypothesis very practical and convincing. I like that he doesn't mire in idle pondering and gets his hands dirty to find evidence. Cutting up his precious fossils to find out the relative age of the specimen is pretty fucking boss.
And his ideas aren't extreme at all. IMO he takes the most practical route. His ideas about scavenging T-Rex rubbed a lot of T-Rex fans the wrong way, but it was very practical. As the animal ages and gets bigger and bigger, it's less practical for it to sneak up on prey and hunt. So his idea is that juvenile T-Rex hunts when their body mass is practical for that, but full adults engage mostly in scavenging is very practical and sound to me. The change in its teeth cross section as well as decreasing teeth count and enlarging teeth mass as they age seems to support that as well,
efyu_lemonardo
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Has Stegosaurus been posted yet? I've always loved this guy!
Now that is an awesome analogy!
what a strange thing to say. lol
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Now that is an awesome analogy!
When looking up art for the Carnotaurus and its arms, the art is... very inconsistent. It's kind of like when you look up raptor art, it goes from a typical feathered raptor, to basically a bird with a dinosaur mouth. What's the most accurate for the flimsy little arms? My curiosity is with how it looks... deformed, like what purpose would they even serve?
Dinosaurs! A fun filled trip back in time.
Did anyone ever see this Fred Savage dinosaur video as a kid? It had the strangest tone, you couldn't replicate something like that today.
Did anyone ever see this Fred Savage dinosaur video as a kid? It had the strangest tone, you couldn't replicate something like that today.
Septimus Prime
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For him, that's the same thing as Nanotyrannus.
Dracorex is also a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus.
This. it was a living, breathing X-Wing. 'nuff said.
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