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.Have there been other preserved dinosaurs in similar condition?
Kronosaurus has the combo of looking cool and having a baller name as well.
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.
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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.
About 10 years ago, Peter Hews stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. Now, scientists describe in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 4 that those bones belonged to a nearly intact skull of a very unusual horned dinosaur—a close relative of the familiar Triceratops that had been unknown to science until now.
"The specimen comes from a geographic region of Alberta where we have not found horned dinosaurs before, so from the onset we knew it was important," says Dr. Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada. "However, it was not until the specimen was being slowly prepared from the rocks in the laboratory that the full anatomy was uncovered, and the bizarre suite of characters revealed. Once it was prepared it was obviously a new species, and an unexpected one at that. Many horned-dinosaur researchers who visited the museum did a double take when they first saw it in the laboratory."
Brown likes to say, only partly in jest, that the uniqueness of this specimen was so obvious that you could tell it was a new species from 100 meters away.
What made this new horned dinosaur distinctive was the size and shape of its facial horns and the shield-like frill at the back of the skull. This new species is similar in many respects to Triceratops, except that its nose horn is taller and the two horns over its eyes are "almost comically small." But the new dinosaur's most distinctive feature is that frill, including what Brown describes as a halo of large, pentagonal plates radiating outward, as well as a central spike. "The combined result looks like a crown," he says.
I don't understand the Carnotaurus love. Is it the bull horns? I get caught up on the teeny tiny arms. They look absurd.
not dinosaurs
fite me
dinosaur in the middle is t-rex, I don't know why the man is sherlock
BTW, I think it's time Neogaf had its own Dinosaur OT.
Do it! You'd probably do it justice.
BTW, I think it's time Neogaf had its own Dinosaur OT.
I'm a junior.
Oh man. I didn't even notice.
I feel too rusty on my paleo knowledge to make a good OT.
Hell yes. Let's talk about Anomalocaris and Dunkleosteus all day!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.
I could type something up and PM it to you, and you start the thread.
+1Let's come up with an OT name.
How about Walking With Dinosaur GAF and other prehistoric creatures |OT|
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Hell yes. Let's talk about Anomalocaris and Dunkleosteus all day!
This one was mentioned earlier but I really liked "Bigger Than T-Rex" too.can you guys recommend any good documentaries about paleontology?
Damn, I wish Christian Slater would narrate every Dinosaur documentary.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
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.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.
Apparently there aren't as much dinosaur species as we think there were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
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.
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.
Rex from Toy Story is best because he can fight hard and can isn't afraid of nothing
Not everybody agrees with that. Ontogeny is a heavily debated subject.
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.
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 don't understand the Carnotaurus love. Is it the bull horns? I get caught up on the teeny tiny arms. They look absurd.
Apparently there aren't as much dinosaur species as we think there were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
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.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.
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
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
what a strange thing to say. lolTyrannosaurus Rex is literally the Kanye West of dinosaurs.
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
For him, that's the same thing as Nanotyrannus.juvenile T-Rex
Microraptor: