• Birds may be dinosaurs that never grew up
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[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;36141869]I've heard about a certain show where the creators did a bit of research to make their dinosaurs realistic, then their plans were shut down by the executive board that said the public/their target audience has very different expectations on how dinosaurs are supposed to look like, despite recent findings in archeology updating how dinosaurs probably looked constantly. More and more evidence points to many dinosaurs having feathers for example. Or at least fluffy scales.[/QUOTE] The general expectation of a dinosaur will probably never disappear anyway. When you say T-rex, you say big, hungry, green scaly reptile, not fluffy brightly-feathered Big Bird looking for food as if he were looking for a cookie. It's just not the same. [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AmW1dzeLxNU/TUxI-wZNzEI/AAAAAAAAASo/u-Kxf1n0oF0/s320/rex.jpg[/img] See this big bad dude over here? That's a T-rex. He's so awesome that he walks into trash cans and isn't afraid of anything. [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oumpB7dmks8/TV4OHyOf9ZI/AAAAAAAAAu0/4C-93lUW1Pc/s1600/Big_Bird.jpg[/img] Now this pussy can't compare to good 'ol Rex up there. A middle finger, a ghetto jacket and a busted old car won't guarantee you survival against a savaging tower of destruction and hunger.
Great, the cool ones just HAD TO FUCKING DIE OFF.
[QUOTE=Charybdis;36139413][IMG]http://media.2oceansvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/trex.jpg[/IMG] It twists my melon maaan[/QUOTE] "I have a dream... Of growing up to be higher than any other animal else, and eating your kind, just like you eat ours..." I can feel it now... The hate they have towards us... Some day they will mutate and grow up to eat us.
Dinosaurs are just goddamn cool. Too bad cool doesn't automatically mean they've got an evolutionary advantage.
[QUOTE=Chaohord;36139579][img]http://puu.sh/xRjr[/img] woaah[/QUOTE] Kinda imagined him to be a racoon but W/E ^:v:^
[QUOTE=Character;36140351][t]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PZ-lKZrWOIY/TZOjzegnJ8I/AAAAAAAABYs/Rhj0Wv5Am78/s1600/starfish.jpg[/t] freaky, maaaaaan[/QUOTE] I remember that one, she gets chopped in half as a starfish and both halves regrow into good and evil twins.
What they're really saying is birds show different growth patterns and stages than Dinosaurs, not that birds are stunted or anything. A baby T. rex looks nothing like the adult, but a baby Emu looks like a tiny version of it's adult form. Also T. rex for example had relatively slow growth for it's first few years then a period of rapid growth as it reached 12-15 years old, then more or less finished growing by the time it's 20-25 years old. An Emu on the other hand immediately starts growing very rapidly as soon as it hatches and within 3-4 weeks has doubled in size and looks exactly like a miniature version of it's adult form and is fully grown after about a year.
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