The Dinosaur Thread

[Iceman]

Ah, the Allosaurus, the forgotten carnivore. Kind of a beta villain in the dinosaur universe, really. Like The Vulture or Loki, you'd have to get a really charismatic actor to play him. I'm thinking Jake Gyllenhaal.

Gyllenhaal's got range, it could work.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Gyllenhaal's got range, it could work.

Still won't get an Oscar nom.

 

[Iceman]

Still won't get an Oscar nom.

Dinosaur performances get continually overlooked. It's a real problem with the industry.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Dinosaur performances get continually overlooked. It's a real problem with the industry.

Daniel Day Lewis would win an Oscar for that. After altering his genome to become a velociraptor for five years of character research.

 

[Iceman]

Daniel Day Lewis would win an Oscar for that. After altering his genome to become a velociraptor for five years of character research.

This guy goes above and beyond. There needs to be more velociraptor parts in general in Hollywood. I was watching The Notebook recently and believe there wasn’t a single line spoken by any dinosaur. I mean that film was crying out for raptor (and probably allosaurus but that is a story for another day). They focused way too much on Gosling and McAdams which took away from what they were trying to achieve. Especially being set in the time period and location it was, having no herds of Gallimimus stomping them at least during the outdoor intimate dialogue scenes took me out of the movie a little. This refusal to write in prehistoric creature parts even when not doing so so obviously hurts a film is one of the main issues I have with modern filmmaking.

 

[Mike5575]

Roughly sixty-five million years ago, a group of the most impressive and unique animals that ever walked the face of this planet died out, and now, I find that there's no thread solely discussing them. That's a shame, they've suffered the indignity of extinction, but this just adds insult to injury. So I've taken it upon myself to start a thread dedicated to the creatures that straddle the line between animal and monster, that are at times equal parts fantasy and science, that continue to capture the imaginations of people worldwide.

I'm talking about DINOSAURS.



I figured this could generate a good amount of discussion given that my search for a similar thread generated a few threads discussing individual discoveries, the possibilities of a Jurassic Park 4 and a few one dinosaur related video games.

This can be a thread in which to share and discuss newer discoveries, theories and ideas about dinosaurs, or to post your own ideas and/or arguments regarding these theories. Or you could just post "T.Rex is awesome!! " I'd be fine with that too, as he is.

Please, my only request is that discussion here remain civil and (somewhat) lighthearted. I realize that many ideas regarding these extinct animals are controversial, but let's try and be respectful of the ideas of others.

It really boggles the mind that such massive creatures like the Brachiosaurus used to roam the Earth for millions of years. I mean, just imagine how different the world had to be for nature to sustain and select these creatures for natural selection.

 

[squeekness]

That's an awful lot of Dino poop.

 

[Iceman]

It really boggles the mind that such massive creatures like the Brachiosaurus used to roam the Earth for millions of years. I mean, just imagine how different the world had to be for nature to sustain and select these creatures for natural selection.

We've had imaginings of what it was like back then based on fossil/skeletal remains etc but imagine how crazy it would be to be able to go back in time and see what was going on live.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

I'm imagining a whole ecosystem living on top of sauropod species. Small Avian dinosaurs or Pterosaurs probably lived on top of those or flew around them at all times.

Who knows, maybe even some species of symbiotic Fungi or Insects, parasites, could live their whole life on one and never know anything else.

 

[squeekness]

That wou ld be cool, a moving garden.

 

[Cobblepot]

I'm imagining a whole ecosystem living on top of sauropod species. Small Avian dinosaurs or Pterosaurs probably lived on top of those or flew around them at all times.

Who knows, maybe even some species of symbiotic Fungi or Insects, parasites, could live their whole life on one and never know anything else.

Lol, they're not THAT big.

 

[Big Al]

Ah, the Allosaurus, the forgotten carnivore. Kind of a beta villain in the dinosaur universe, really. Like The Vulture or Loki, you'd have to get a really charismatic actor to play him. I'm thinking Jake Gyllenhaal.

LMAO that would be hilarious. I want Steve Buscemi as allosaurus now.

 

[:eek:]

This Truck-Size Dinosaur Terrorized Prey with Razor-Sharp 'Meat Hooks'

https://www.livescience.com/62164-dinosaur-sported-meat-hook-claws.html

 

[chaseter]

How can they speculate what a new Dino looks like based off of a few vertebrae?

 

[:eek:]

This Claw-Faced Sea Monster Was Literally Born to Kill

https://www.livescience.com/62779-killer-arthropod.html

 

[Boom]

Anyone here familiar with the computer game Saurian?

They're in the process of redesigning their T. Rex model, and they're aiming to create the most accurate T. Rex ever (based on current evidence). Here's what they came up with so far:

Spoiler

No feathers, according to a 2017 study.

 

[Flash525]

It really boggles the mind that such massive creatures like the Brachiosaurus used to roam the Earth for millions of years. I mean, just imagine how different the world had to be for nature to sustain and select these creatures for natural selection.

It really does boggle the mind, yeah. I suppose the closest we've got is the Blue Whale if we were looking for some sort of comparison.

I'm imagining a whole ecosystem living on top of sauropod species. Small Avian dinosaurs or Pterosaurs probably lived on top of those or flew around them at all times.

I don't know how accurate it is now (by the latest scientific standards) but the BBC Special Walking with Dinosaurs specifically stated this was the case on the larger Sauropods - they used the Diplodocus as the example here.

They're in the process of redesigning their T. Rex model, and they're aiming to create the most accurate T. Rex ever (based on current evidence). Here's what they came up with so far:

Spoiler

No feathers, according to a 2017 study.

Ah, the ever-fluctuating feather/no feather debate. Personally I think I prefer Dinosaurs without feathers, but then that's probably because I first saw them without. Had the first Dinosaurs (in toys/film) had feathers, then by comparison, it's quite likely those now without would seem... naked.

 

[:eek:]

It really does boggle the mind, yeah. I suppose the closest we've got is the Blue Whale if we were looking for some sort of comparison.

The Blue Whale is probably the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth.

 

[Flash525]

The Blue Whale is probably the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth.

True. I was thinking of the Humpback for Brachiosaurus comparison, though even that may be a tad on the smaller side.

 

[:eek:]

Dinosaur-Era Super-Piranha Terrorized Jurassic Seas

 

[Boom]

Saurian did a redesign of their T-Rex and they did painstaking research to make it as accurate as possible (according to current studies and hypotheses). Behold:

Coloring is obviously speculative. And here's a pretty cool article explaining the design:

Tyrannosaurus Redesign 2018

 

[Schlosser85]

Doesn’t look substantially different to me.

 

[Boom]

Lack of feathers is the most notable change. Current theories are back to Rex being bare-skinned.

 

[Chuppy]

Speaking of feathers, does anyone have any of the Beasts of the Mesozoic action figures?
I picked up a few of their raptors a couple of months ago and it's so refreshing to have scientifically accurate (to our current understanding) versions! They make my old velociraptor figurine look old-fashioned

Velociraptor and young.

Atrociraptor

 

[Iceman]

Cool dino-figures

I've still got loads from when I collected as a kid.