Europe's Largest Predatory Dinosaur Discovered in Portugal
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[QUOTE=Dr.C;44175981]If sauropods are so great, then how come they aren't around anymore?
Checkmate
Mammals: 1
Sauropods: 0[/QUOTE]
Some of the smaller ones are still with us - in the form of birds.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44179404]I think the coolest thing about dinosaurs is that the way we imagine them is probably utterly wrong. Cracked did an article recently, and they showed how a baboon would look if it was drawn based solely on its skeleton. It was absolutely terrifying, and I'm just wondering if dinosaurs really just looked like massive lumpy birds or something.[/QUOTE]
Do you have a link to the article? I can't seem to find it and I'd like to check it out.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;44175981]If sauropods are so great, then how come they aren't around anymore?
Checkmate
Mammals: 1
Sauropods: 0[/QUOTE]
Fun fact, Sgt. Buttcheek, the "Age of Mammals" only has about [I][B]20% Mammals as the living taxa[/B][/I]
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44179404]I think the coolest thing about dinosaurs is that the way we imagine them is probably utterly wrong. Cracked did an article recently, and they showed how a baboon would look if it was drawn based solely on its skeleton. It was absolutely terrifying, and I'm just wondering if dinosaurs really just looked like massive lumpy birds or something.[/QUOTE]
it'd take years for me to change my image of dinosaurs thank you for making me insane over this train of thought
you have thrown my life into uncertainty with two sentences thank you very much
[QUOTE=cardfan212;44180600]Do you have a link to the article? I can't seem to find it and I'd like to check it out.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.cracked.com/article_20861_5-ridiculous-alternate-versions-prehistoric-animals.html]Here you go.[/url]
Oh hey, my homecountry discovered dino shit. that's cool.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44179404]I think the coolest thing about dinosaurs is that the way we imagine them is probably utterly wrong. Cracked did an article recently, and they showed how a baboon would look if it was drawn [b]based solely on its skeleton[/b][/QUOTE]
that isn't how paleobiology works though
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;44182981]that isn't how paleobiology works though[/QUOTE]A lot of artists tend to just put vacuum-packed skin into the skeleton of extinct reptiles.
Dinos most likely didn't have a really visible antorbital fenestrae, no matter how many artists draw them with it, and you can bet Jur ass ornamentations made of flesh existed in some specimens.
That section of the book is a funny take on that belief.
the dinosaur was named after james gurney, creator of dinotopia
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