Dinosaurs

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That looks god awful

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>>2282486
Best allosaur pic

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'Stan' the man

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>>2282472
Spinosaurus is my fav

But which is the most accurate mouth
a. Partially lipped
b. Full lips
c. Lipless

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The giant killer duck/goose, deinocheirus

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Killer turkey, with large claws

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Yamaceratops

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'Sue'

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Could this be accurate for triceratops?

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Lizard with winged legs

>>2283355
so you read tet zoo too?

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The holidays are right by the corner.

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>>2283326
Hey Anon, what do you think of the Quadrupedal Spinosaurus Theory?
Also, my favourite is Diplodocus.

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>>2283361
hey guys

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Raptors in general

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One of the last great land dinosaurs

>>2283315
I know the guy who found Stan.

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Deinocheirus

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Hesperornis was an ancient aquatic toothy bird like that existed 83-78mya.

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Tupandactylus was an odd pterosaur that may have used its oversized and mostly webbed crest to control itself while floating; sort of like a sailboat

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>>2283671
Shorter legs would mean closer to the water, less leg drag, and better able to ambush while in water

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>you will never own a farm of wokwokwoopters

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>you will never run a farm of giant floofy sweet as cream dinos who huddle about for bags of Dino Chow that you pour from a helicopter, and after feeding get in a big cuddle pile for pats and scritchi scratchis

>>2283932
Can you post more of those?

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Daily reminder.

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>>2283959
srue due

>>2283917
>>2283928
REEEEE PTEROSAURS O U T

>>2283959
You aren't bright.

>>2284044
Didn't you read the OP?
>Ancient avian and marine reptiles like pterosaurs or mosasaurs are acceptable

>>2284023
Looks like an iguana about to rap

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My brotha

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The last and only great land dinosaurs after the K-Pg extinction

Only #1, #7, #9, and #10 out still exist ...For now.

>>2282472
>all dinosaurs were feathered
Lol no

>>2284523
Any evidence they're dinosaurs? Because I'm 99.9999999999999999% sure they are not and never will be.

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>>2283917
This fuckin nigga sells pickles to people.

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>>2284619
Read these from another thread that asked if birds are dinosaurs
>>2284464
>>2284465
>>2284469
>>2284470

The art in this thread is top notch. Please, don't die.

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>>2282486

>>2284619
Peforate acetabulum, cannon bone, reduction of manual and pedal digits, pleurocoels, loss of the predentary, semilunate carpal, antorbital fenestrae, synsacrum, pygostyle, ascending process of the astragalus, feathers, sclerotic ring, and a pile of other dinosaur traits that birds have.

The one that actually matters is the synsacrum. This is a classic bird trait and was also incidentally the original trait on which the Dinosauria was erected. Sir Richard Owen noticed in 1842 that both Megalosaurus and Iguanadon had synsacra.

He erected the taxon Dinosauria based on this synsacrum and not much else. Now of course Owen and others knew that birds had synsacra too. And a few years later with the discovery of Archaeopteryx it was proven that birds are indeed dinosaurs.

This knowledge is literally as old as our knowledge of dinosaurs. We knew this stuff in the early 1800's.

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>>2284619
Now if you're wondering how we knew before 1842 that birds are dinosaurs but everyone acts like it's something new now, settle in for a different story.

In the 1800's in Europe the churches hated evolution. So to appease the common man we didn't say birds ARE dinosaurs, we said they evolved from them. Birds evolved from dinosaurs and became something that isn't a dinosaur. This allowed Christians to continue to deny evolution by saying, "they're different things, they didn't evolve."

this attitude persisted in the US until even now.

but scientists in the 1970's stopped giving a fuck what creationists think.

we stopped saying birds EVOLVED FROM dinosaurs, and we just started saying the truth: Birds are fucking dinosaurs. They always have been. We've always known it. And we're done apologizing for other people's stupidity.

Humans are an odd type of bony fish, birds are an interesting sort of dinosaur, cows are just a very evolved tunicate. If a person doesn't like these facts they're welcome to bury their fishy head in the sand and pray to a god that isn't there. Scientists no longer give a fuck.

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Can anyone help me make sense of this quad/bipedal ordeal going on with the Spino?

Apparently they've already debunked the notion of it being a quadrupedal animal, so is it back to being a more traditional therapod that preyed upon fish again? I feel like it's stuck into some form of limbo.

I need someone with a good understanding about all this.

>>2284992
>I need someone with a good understanding about all this
we had 3 distinct species of Spinosaurus and one Sigilmassasaurus species.

this dude bought a bunch of bones that appeared to belong to the three different Spinosaurus species as well as Sigilmassasaurus.

He declared all these seemingly different bones to be one animal based on the person that sold them saying they came from the same spot. (this is pretty weak evidence, it's entirely possible for multiple species to be buried together.)

So he takes ALL THREE species of Spinosaurus PLUS the Sigilmassasaurus species and declares them all to be one species of Spinosaurus, S. aegyptiacus.

if he is correct and all these seemingly different elements came from one animal, then that animal has very short legs.

others point out that this looks like bullshit, you can't trust people that sell fossils for profit, and there appear to be at least 3 distinct species and 2 genera in the animal.

the other guy that invented the quadrupedal Spinosaurus by combining multiple skeletons shuts up and never says anything again.

and here we sit.

>>2284992
so the upshot is that:
1. it is POSSIBLE that Spinosaurus was quadrupedal/aquatic but we need more evidence to prove that.

2. The CURRENT science (the state of the art, the last thing published) doesn't support the idea of a quadrupedal Spinosaurus.

So atm quadrupedal Spino is dead in the water. It might be real, but it sure doesn't look like it right now.

Unfortunately the quad Spino made a lot of headlines so it's a bit embarrassing to come out and say it's bullshit. Doesn't inspire confidence in science. So nobody makes a big deal of it.

>>2285000
>it's a bit embarrassing to come out and say it's bullshit. Doesn't inspire confidence in science.
this isn't the only example of this.

there are a lot of false ideas floating around the blogs and boards about dinosaurs that scientists know are probably untrue but don't make a big deal about because authority of science.

feathered tyrannosauroids and the non-pronating wrists of raptors are a couple examples. This bullshit will be denied by science in time, but only once everyone here has stopped caring about it.

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Technically the chickens are avian dinosaurs

>>2284619
Birds are as much dinosaurian as a bat is a mammal.

Except only birds survived and diversified out of the broad family dinosaurian.
Imagine if all mammals went extinct except bats. They would still be mammals, but only their kind would exist.

>>2285002
>feathered tyrannosauroids and the non-pronating wrists of raptors are a couple examples.
>tyrannosauroids
But we know there are feathered tyrannosauroids
> non-pronating wrists of raptors
What?

>>2284978
It's fucking bullshit that it took that long. Thomas Huxley and co already suggested the connection back in the 1800s, but all the other scientists were like "nope, sorry, I can't see it". Among them was that fucking faggot Richard Owen.

You'd think that Archaeopteryx would have been enough to tip them off, but they just dismissed it as a primitive bird but not a dinosaur. Everyone was memeing that dinosaurs were slow, dumb pieces of primordial reptilian shit, so they just gave up on seriously researching them for like decades. I guess stuff like two world wars didn't help matters.

They also discover guys like Oviraptor and Velociraptor and fail to notice the bird-like traits. They admit that a featherless Archaeopteryx totally looks like Compsognathus, but then deny the obvious connection. I have old books which claim that dinosaurs looking like birds is an example of convergent evolution, but there's no possible way they could be related. Instead, the made up fuckers like Proavis to try to fill in the gaps.

It's like how everyone was adamant that sauropods lived in water, and the idea that they might have been land-dwelling treetop munchers was seen as some odd fringe theory.

They were on the right track from the start, and then derailed off into stupidity. It took a hundred years for the paleontologists to begin to realize that they had messed up.

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>>2285310
>Among them was that fucking faggot Richard Owen.
>chief paleontologist
>dicovered/formally described the very first dinosaur
>paved the way for comparative anatomy
RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2285311
Owen please. Go back to haunting your museum and stop stealing credit from William Buckland.

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>>2285316
Thought it was Mantell, but ok.

>>2285323
>Owen probably pleasured his butt with this

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>>2285327
You just don't like a Woke man, I understand.

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>>2284999
>>2285000

Some people just conclude that it was capable of doing both depending on the situation it was in at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_oLnDQjUc

>>2285377
I like this conclusion. It most certainly wouldn't be the first. Parasaurolophus was quadrupedal til it came time to run, similar to Kangaroos.

>>2284622
What the fuck kind of muscles does this thing have to hold its head like that

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>>2285193
>But we know there are feathered tyrannosauroids
we know there were feathered dinosaurs some people have assigned to Tyrannosauroidea.

that's not the same thing. Dinosaurs get re-classified all the time. You'll live to see those tyrannosauroids reclassified at least once. Probably several times in your life.

>You'd think that Archaeopteryx would have been enough to tip them off
it was. The first body fossil of Archaeopteryx was described as a new species of Compsognathus. As soon as the second one was found with feathers British and French anatomists knew without any doubt that birds were dinosaurs.
>derailed off into stupidity
this was largely a result of dinosaur paleontology moving to the US and facing pressure from creationists.

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>>2285316
>>2285323
the synsacrum of Iguanodon was well known and described long before Owen recognized its significance.

He wasn't exactly a savory character but he did manage to recognize that Iguanodon and Megalosaurus shared the feature. I think he was so scared someone else would notice what he did that he published the minimum number of bulletins in a huge hurry and then backdated them in case someone else was publishing at the same time.

Apparently he didn't need to worry, it seems nobody else saw what he did.

>>2285310
>You'd think that Archaeopteryx would have been enough to tip them off
sorry, responded here:
>>2285435

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>>2285193
> non-pronating wrists of raptors
>What?
The idea that raptors (and any number of other theropods) couldn't pronate their wrists is based on a mistaken reading of Carpenter's work.

He specifically says in his paper that they could pronate their writs, they probably just didn't hold their hands pronated all the time. It's not a resting pose but it's totally possible.

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The head was never found. But this is a good guess.

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Not really a dinosaur, but still cool.

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>>2285930
>Where was that in headlines?
all over the world, in most major newspapers and every science publication. Pic related I guess.

>>2285931
>didn't tyrannosaurus have some feathers?
There are no known feathers from any tyrannosaurid. There's no reason to think any tyrannosaurid had feathers.

all existing evidence indicates it didn't have feathers.

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The back of its head look larger due to the feathers

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>>2286318
>Adult brown-headed female hornbill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-casqued_hornbill

>>2286318
I meant to post that for this
>>2285634

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Do these count?

>>2283959
>Christians against dinosaurs
>Some christians say god's work is false
Isn't that like some kind of advanced heresy or something? At the very least a bigass middle finger to god.

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>>2286476

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>>2286477

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>>2282472
Happy Holidays, and a Merry Christmas.

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Pair of rexes taking on an alamosaurus

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Anatosaurus
https://www.britannica.com/animal/Anatosaurus

Walk cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc1zlIhP2UY

>>2286567
Sexual dysmorphism
http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=549

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>>2286562
>That is a juvenile rex, which may actually be its own species called nanotyrannus.

Here is a much younger rex with a baby triceratops

>>2286658
You've got that backwards. Nanotyrannus came first and it might actually be a juvenile Trex.

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'Stan' wish you all a jolly good Christmas.

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>>2283876
Oh please.

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Love literally anything in the spinosauridae family

>>2286952
>the headlines aren't saying quadrupedal
that's because nobody puts "quadrupedal" in a headline.

it's got way too many letters for the average American reader to understand.

>>2284045
Pterosaurs aren't avian or marine reptiles.

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>>2283332
I remember meeting her when i was five

She still impresses me

>>2287223
I met the dude who found her when I was 12

>>2285406
What the fuck kind of muscles does the African male have to hold its BBC like that

>>2285406
The same ones pretty much ever animal with a similar shaped neck has.

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I don't care how accurate it is. I will hate feathers on dinosaurs until the day I die

>>2285148
For a non-hypothetical example, you could use mammals and synapsids. Technically, all mammals are synapsids, but all of the others died off millions of years ago, so all modern synapsids are also mammals.

>>2285970
>There are no known feathers from any turannosaurid.
Aren't Yutyrannus and Dilong tyrannosaurids? I thought they had indisputable evidence of having at least some feathers

>>2288142
>Aren't Yutyrannus and Dilong tyrannosaurids?
no, they're classified as tyrannosaurOIDs.

putative ancestors of tyrannosaurIDs, but probably not since they had feathers and tyrannosaurids didn't.

>>2283549
is that literally stan and wendy from south park?

for real, look. it's them.

>>2284523

Australians lost a war against emus... Imagine if the bigger ones were still alive.

What dinosaur would be the hardest to approach in the wild and jerk off?

>>2289493
all of them since they probably didn't have any parts to jerk.

>>2289459

Have you even seen emus?

Scary shit

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So there's this....

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Then there's this.

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>>2289582
And this...

>>2289478
that's dope af

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Utahraptor is my fave overall. I was obsessed with Jurassic Park as a kid, especially the raptors, and Utah is basically the scientifically-accurate, real-life version of them.

I also like Triceratops a lot.

And dinosaurs with feathers are cool.

>>2289459
There actually used to be bigger bipedal birds in australia. Until Humans came and killed them off.

So they already kind of won that war.

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>>2289642
I liek birds. So I like these to.

>>2289642
not really utah is much bigger. Dakotaraptor or achillobator fit the bill more.

>>2283321
Who the fuck would save let alone repost this.

>>2283326
Like crocs, I'd say no lips. It honestly depends on how much time it actually spent in or near the water.

>>2284523
It was hard for birds to bounce back and fill the shoes dinosaurs left. Birds are like Mike Tyson's autistic cousin who works at best buy (dinosaurs being Tyson in this situation).

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>>2284978
>Humans are an odd type of bony fish
That's a fucking reach man. Might as well say all life is nothing but highly evolved shrimp. We broke away from shrimp some time ago IIRC.

>>2285928
the list keeps piling up

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>>2285377
>spino could have been a rad aquatic rival of t-rex in JP but that boner Jack Faggot decided to job off rex for some made up Frankenstein crocodile monster

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>>2286477
>Nigersaurus

>>2290276
>Osteichthyes /ˌɒstiːˈJkθi.iːz/, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish
>Osteichthyes can be compared to Euteleostomi. In paleontology, the terms are synonymous.
>Euteleostomi presents a cladistic view which includes the terrestrial tetrapods that evolved from lobe-finned fish
>includes the terrestrial tetrapods
humans are literally bony fish under modern cladistics

>>2283439

That or Kosemen.

>>2284523
We still have #8 too. No one remembers we have two rhea species.

>>2288397
The common ancestor between tyrannasaurids/tyrannosauroids and dromaeosaurids must have had feathers, since feathers did not evolve independently. It doesn't disprove featherless tyrannosaurids, but in no way do we have a complete enough skin sample of a specimen to say either way.

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Juvenile torosaurus on its first hunt

>>2291250
>The common ancestor between tyrannasaurids/tyrannosauroids and dromaeosaurids must have had feathers
only if tyrannosaurids are also tyrannosauroids.

if dylong and yutyrannus are tyrannosauroids then Tyrannosaurus and other tyrannosaurds aren't tyrannosauroids. Or there was secondary loss of feathers, but that's less likely.

classification error is the simplest explanation but also the one scientists in that field are least likely to accept.

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Its more speculative than basic factual, but not impossible.

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Any of y'all heard of this?

>>2289684
That was New Zealand you muppet
Australians have never hunted large flightless birds to extinction

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Carcharodontosaurids a best

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Realistic version of the spitter

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The turkey from hell

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>>2292326
Carcharodontos a shit, Ganeosaurs f t w

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Asia's biggest rexes, zhuchengtyrannus (left) and torosaurus (right)

They might have lived around the same time

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>>2292368
say tht 2 muh face niggur

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>>2291856
That line applies to most good paleoart.

>>2291859
R.I.P. It's a shame that this project will probably never be made into a presentable form ever again.

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>>2282472

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>>2292549

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>>2292550
You ever wanna fuck a dinosaur?

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>>2292385
I already did.

>>2292549
Slepp Tight Dino

this guy makes some of the best paleoart.
http://johnconway.co/

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>>2292368
>It does not look like a very accurate as a Tex evolution, by today's standards.
https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2012/02/vintage-hypothetical-dinosaur-art.html

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>>2292935
Ogawa did him more justice.

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>tfw can soon roleplay as a retarded fat piece of shit

>>2293081
Saurian looks promising

>tfw no playable Anatosaurus
I love Ankylosaurus more, but this still hurts a tiny bit

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>>2293083

I was hoping for denversaurus personally.

>>2293087
>>2293083
>>2293081
Is it gonna be a PC exclusive? I only have an Xbox ONE.

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>>2293083
>no playable Anatosaurus
still pissed
best that can be reasonably hoped for is paid dlc somewhere down the line

>>2292549
Slepp Tight Dino

>>2292549
Slepp Tight Dino

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>>2293081
>tfw can also soon run own Jurassic Park

>>2294497
That looks so bad. The animal in that picture could not move its arms or legs without tearing skin.

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最初科学家认为它属于北美洲蛮龙种属,但细致分析它的骨骼发现是一支新物种,它的牙齿像刀一样锋利,长度超过10厘米。

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>>2294502
Here's a higher res of that piece. Artist is Emiliano Troco.

>>2286466
If proddies actually cared about heresy they wouldn't be proddies.

>>2294677
How is this game, anyway?

Sup cunts, just scored a position volunteering on a dinosaur dig

>>2294939
That's actually pretty sick dude, probably won't be very fun though.

>>2292549
Slepp Tight Dino

>>2294944
Nah, I'll enjoy it. I liked the megafauna dig despite fucking my hands in the cold; and I got a spot in week 3.

>>2294770
Still in beta and have some of quirks (such as swimming being temporarily disabled), but overall alright.


At the very least, it is a large open world survival game loaded with playable dinosaur options.


The game is $19.99 on Steam,

>>2294939
>google to see what digs my country has
>find one in the eastern states
>12 people a week
>$425 a day

it does say it covers things like transport, accomadation and more but is this what digs are usually like.

also to clarify im just randomly passing through this thread so i know nothing about digs.

>>2294975
I'm not sure, there's one in the outback that costs a mint, this one only asks 50pp for a week to cover costs, have to pay for accommodation on top though

the megafauna dig cost me nothing, apart from transport to the town, who were very kind in getting behind the dig, we were given the sports gym to sleep in, invited over to one of the locals for dinner one night

$450 sounds very steep, could be a way of gating demand, dinosaurs being a lot more sexy than recently extinct mammals

>>2294770
One major complaint is the fact that at the end of the day, it's players controlling the dinosaurs so when spinos and shantungosaurus team up to chase a utahraptor across the island, it gets a bit annoying. If you're into playing "proper dinosaurs" you can apply to the Isla Sorna servers where the admins make sure that's it's as realistic as possible. If a pack of utahraptors kill your trike buddy, you don't go on a raging quest of vengeance, you keep walking. Chat is also seriously looked down upon and they expect you to use the built-in calls to communicate

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The largest pterosaurs that we know of:
1. Quetzalcoatlus Northrop
2. Arambourgiania philadelphiae
3. Hatzegopteryx thambema

so what was the best dinosaur zoo simulator?

JPOG or Zoo Tycoon 2?

>>2296394
For detail accuracy and amount of dinos, JPOG
For everything else, ZT2

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Tried my hand at placing outer appearance on a skeleton (traced over google images dilo skele). Had fun with bizarro dilo. I only know general tetrapod anatomy so probably unlikely musculature build?

Also I was inspired by the spines on this one actually >>2296378

>>2296568
it looks a bit shrink wrapped but otherwise good

>>2284619
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
>Birds (Aves), also known as avian dinosaurs

>>2286344
>Human shaped evolved dinosaurs
God that was the dumbest fucking shit
That aside Dougal Dixon was always a favorite of mine as a kid.

>>2287607
>Baby ceratopsian hanging out with an adult theropod
reminds me of You are Umasu

>>2289579
Terrifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4xNtgg-Br4

>>2291345
>T.rex can't possibly have had feathers because I say so!
It's only a matter of time before inescapable evidence show up, how butthurt will you be then i wonder?

>>2296871
It's been 112 years, dozens of specimens, and hundreds of skin samples.

how long do you need?

after a while you have to say fuck it, we're not going to find any feathers on this animal.

>>2296952
It's been around 47 years, dozens of related species with feathers, fossil feathers as far back as the Triassic
How much do you need?
After a while you need to admit it, the fucking things had feathers.
>and hundreds of skin samples.
There has never been a complete skin sample of T.rex what are you talking about?

>>2296952
considering large theropods like Concavenator and Yutyrannus had had feathers its probable T rex had quills or possibly downy feathers

I mean if fucking allosaurs had them there bound to be an ancestral trait to all Coelurosaurs

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>>2297023
>if fucking allosaurs had them
Have you read Naish's article about those two?

He argues pretty convincingly that one or both are misclassified. Certainly the traits used to classify them are found in both animals.

this presents a problem. Is Yutyrannus an allosauroid, or is Concavenator a tyrannosauroid? Or are both of them something new? Time will tell, but I'd bet money neither one turns out to be ancestral to Tyrannosaurus.

It's a bit of an IQ test is all. Modern views say Yutyrannus and Dilong had feathers so Tyrannosaurus must have too. It's equally valid to say that Tyrannosaurus didn't have feathers so it must not be descended from Yutyrannus or Dilong.

either option is possible, only one of them has significant fossil support.

>>2296965
>There has never been a complete skin sample of T.rex
lol'd out loud.

how many complete skin samples of extinct dinosaurs do you think exist?

all you need is one feather to prove your point.
112 years later you've got zero.

>>2297063

Naish is breddy gud but the thing here is that even basal coelurosaurs had protofeathers, Tyrannosaurs most certainly had feathers. Question is, did they lose most or only some of them as they matured.

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>>2297117
forgot pic

>>2297117
if Tyrannosaurus isn't a tyrannosauroid it may very well not be a coelurosaur either.

all the traits of coelurosauria are just derived traits found in all theropod lineages. Including all allosauroids.

that's Naish's point and my own. If you can't tell an allosauroid from a coelurosaur, what's that tell you? Either they're the same thing or the distinction is useless. Nobody thinks they're the same thing.

>>2297117
>did they lose most or only some of them as they matured.
extensive skin impressions are known from 'nanotyrannus' as well.

if that's a juvenile T. rex as most scientists believe, they didn't have feathers when they were young either.

>>2297121

Naish has some pretty far out theories. AFAIK he is the only actual paleontologist to have said it. Even so, he ony makes a rather passing note of it in that article.
There is however a 2016 article placing it in an even more basal clade than Dilong, namely the Proceratosauridae.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep20252

>>2296374
>doesn't matter, had sex.

>>2297122

The fossil you refer to has not been published or studied extensively. It's in a private collection.

The skin impression is thought to be from the metatarsal area. Of course it was scaly.

>>2297126
>AFAIK he is the only actual paleontologist to have said it.
I know of one other that said it earlier.

The problem with Proceratosauridae is the same problem with Proceratosaurus-

The character table is grossly inaccurate, Rauhut & Milner had to pretend a handful of characters found in Allosaurus and allosauroids in general were only to be found in tyrannosauroids and tyrannosaurids.

You and I have probably discussed this before, but if you want a rundown I have the problem areas memorized.

all of the traits Rauhut et al used to place Proceratosaurus in Tyrannosauroidea are also found in Allosaurus. If you read their monograph next to Madsen's work on Allosaurus it'll make you laugh. The two are indistinguishable by the characters they used.

>>2296568

>unlikely musculature build

Pretty much. More rat than bird.

>>2297129
>The fossil you refer to has not been published Published in lecture last year, as I've told you before.
>or studied extensively.
true
>It's in a private collection.
as were 90% of the T. rex fossils in museums at one point.
>The skin impression is thought to be from the metatarsal area.
it was describe as a mummy, the skin is nearly complete and covers one side from the tail to the neck. The whole damn thing.

>>2297133

source

>>2297134
It was published in lecture by Larson in Miami I think it was August of 2016?

I don't know, check the archives and tell me when you first demanded a source for something because you don't pay attention to dinosaur paleontology.

I think NatGeo has done a show about the fossil as well. "Dino Death Match" or some such shit.

>>2297065
>If an animal lacks feathers on any part of their body they have zero feathers
PACK IT IN BOYS CHICKENS OFFICIALLY HAVE NO FEATHERS
http://www.flare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/FLR05_COL_LaineyGossip1-600x399.jpg

>>2297135

A lecture doesen't mean a published article. Before you start swinging left and right, you should check your own knowledge of scientific procedure.

I have yet to find any mention of said lecture, or a full skin covering imprint of Nanotyrannus. Until I find it or you supply me with one, I'll just have to take your "arguments" with a rather large grain of salt.

>>2297145
>he hasn't heard of publishing by lecture

>I'll just have to take your "arguments" with a rather large grain of salt.
You can double your sodium intake since Larson and Bakker are the only people to have examined the fossil, so you'd have to take their word for it anyways.

I'm not arguing though.
I'm testing you.
For critical thinking skill mostly.

you're wise to doubt me. You'd be equally wise to doubt the rest of paleontology but you haven't gotten that far yet. Though to be fair to /an/ you guys lack the knowledge to argue this topic with any real meaning. Or the interest to read about it apparently.

>>2294497
oh...

>>2297155
>"h-heh, this was just a test!"
fuck off

>>2286658
>The babby rex is just a chibi version of adult t-rex and doesn't have arms proportionally bigger than the adult
>The triceratops barely has cheeks

So much for the scientifical accuracy they are striving for in this game.

>>2297180
That's not real concept art. Some closet furfag drew it

>>2297180
or its a bit of cute promotional art to celebrate a holiday in a non serious manner

>>2297118
Feathers were already long in development with their line of archosaurs were already fluffy. Even their very distant cousin to dinosauria, pterosaurs were fluffy

Meaning all dinosaurs would have at least some level of filaments or plumulaceous with perhaps some scales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAixpQcqdU

This thread made me happy
I love dinosaurs

>>2297168
I've been ignoring /an/ for half a year now. I was just checking to see if your lame threads have attracted anyone that actually reads or understands paleontology.

they have not.

I will, as you say, fuck off.

but to be honest, I've left and things didn't improve.
maybe it's you that should try fucking off.

>>2296610
>>2297132
Makes sense as I mostly draw mammals, that being said it has a more mammalian skeleton that bird from what I saw? Other than the pelvis of course.

>>2297251
Could be, but still only justifies the rex and barely.