What is your favorite dinosaur?

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>>2450723
>What is your name?
>What is your quest?
>What is your favorite dinosaur?

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>>2450723

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Now and Always

Popular predatory dinosaurs are boring. They mostly look the same, same body structure and everything. People just choose to have a favorite 'unusual' predatory dinosaur to be a unique hipster. Eg: >>2450931

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>>2450730
>I am Anonymous, King of the Carpet Beetles.
>I seek the Holy Memes.
>Yi-Qi

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>>2450730
>The guy who posts on /an/ while taking a shit
>stopping the turd from giving me stomach ache
>Giraffatitan

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>>2450723

Melanosuchus niger

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Utahraptor
Basically a velociraptor that's 3 cars long.

fucking featherfags

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>>2451122
Sorry for being scientifically correct

>>2451127
>sorry for being retarded
fixed that for you

>>2451131
I should really stop talking to uneducated people

>>2451143
oh please, featherfag btfo

>>2451091
Ya know, I think it makes sense for many carnivorous theropods to have had bare faces. Many would have likely scavenged carrion and having a bare face would help to stay cleaner, like a vulture.

>>2451158
Jokes on you fagget the faces were feathery too
t. Paleontologist

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>>2451127
>>2451143

>>2451178
>t. Paleontologist
I laugh every time

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>>2451152
The world would be a better place without those filthy scaletards

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>>2450948
>If you like predatory dinosaurs, you're boring or a hipster.

Fuck you too. If you knew anything about dinosaurs and weren't some illiterate cuck, you'd know how drastically different an Allosaurus is from a Tyrannosaurus.
If it helps sooth your autism, here's my favorite non-predator

>>2451225
>salty because he really is a hipster.

Yeah and my favourite insect is Bourletiella arvalis because very few NORMIES have heard of it. Only normies would choose favourite insects such as wasps or beetles.

>hipsters
>scalefags

Ironically /an/ has the worst dinosaur threads when it's the only board where it's on topic

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>>2450723
Ichthyosaurs for life bro

>>2451597
>the only board where it's on topic
debatable.

dinosaurs aren't animals. They're minerals now.

They are part of nature, just like gravel and dirt are, but people rarely write about gravel and dirt here.

they're more correctly science or history, but /sci/ has never really put up with you childish feather-fetishists or scale-fuckers. I don't know if /his/ would.

the content of our dinosaur threads is usually cartoonish autism superficially dabbling in a topic that they refuse to understand on any level aside from appearance. I'd guess most of you faggots would be more at home on /mlp/.

Mostly it's just a reflection of sorting though. If dinosaur threads are better on other boards, it makes you wonder what kind of losers wind up posting here. I mean how much must you suck to get chased out of a dinosaur thread on a cartoon board or a board about D&D games? Those are the losers you'll find here. People too shallow and pathetic to even seriously discuss dinosaurs as cartoons or mythical creatures but still unable to recognize them for what they really are- rocks.

>>2450723
My favorite dinosaur as a kid was the Ankylosaurus. But that was pre-internet, and all our tools were stone.

>people who want to like a big predator but don't want to look like a normie
>so they choose one of the dozen allosaurs that look almost identical

lol

>>2451570
>Allosaurus is a dinosaur normies haven't heard of.

Holy autism

Coelophysis.

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>>2450723
THE CLAW

>>2451600
Terrasaurs trump both m8

>>2451678
Saurophaganax and Allosaurus are two different genus.

Can we stop with the fucking feathered dinosaur meme already?

>>2451797
I bet you couldn't name the difference without googling.
>One is bigger
not it
btw its 'genera'

>>2451678
Allosaurus has been my favorite ever since I was 7. A strong case can be made for Allo and S'nax to be put in the same genus. I just grew to like Saurophaganax more after I visited OU when I was 16 and got to hold the collection's gigantic claw.

>>2451825
>I bet you couldn't name the difference without googling.
Chure actually erected the genus based on 4 distinct morphologies, but one of them was later considered by Chure to be size-mediated.

I doubt anyone could find all four diagnostic traits even by googling. They were published in Chure's thesis which you have to pay to read last time I checked. Foster and others have reviewed the genus, but even they didn't go over the entire diagnosis.

>>2451825
>>2451830
As I recall it was the medial rotation of the proximal head of the humerus that Chure and others decided was size-related.

I may be misremembering though, I haven't read that stuff in years and I don't plan on looking it up tonight.

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>inb4 Ibrahim

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>>2451843
>posted the Ibrahim pic by mistake
Well fuck me.

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>>2451843
>>2451844
>tfw you can't even sock-puppet troll right

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I'm not even quite sure why I like these derpy fucks. I used to think they were cool when I was little because it was still believed that the scales were used for defense or whatever. Now I guess they just look cool.

Saurian was a disappointment

>>2451601
Dinosaurs are extinct animals, retard, not fucking rocks. I get what you're saying but you're retarded and your point is absolutely moot since dinosaurs WERE animals and did not originate and/or rule the world as minerals.

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>>2451122
Does this make you feel better?

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>>2451951
Don't encourage backwards-thinking.

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Triceratops

>>2451961
True, this shows how much closer related to birds they are. Even more so when you add the fact they're a mix of cold and warm blooded.

>>2451933
>Dinosaurs are extinct animals, retard, not fucking rocks
false dichotomy.

most extinct animals are rocks.

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>>2451980
>>2452014


...but where's utahraptor?

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Rex didn't have feathers, they recently found an imprint confirming they had scaly skin.
I don't like early dinosaurs because they never seem realistic to me, too mammalian, they never show them acting like birds OR reptiles, so I'll just go with the prettiest bird around here.

>>2451143
T-Rex didn't have feathers retard, raptors did, not rex

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>>2452423
Except it is likely they did too. I won't discount the possibility of varying coverage from species-to-species. Sort of like elephants and mammoths, adapted appropriately to their respective environments.

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>ok so let's make a giraffe
>let's also make it fly

>>2452498
They literally found a skin imprint proving they had scaly skin.

>>2452517
A skin imprint of the entire body? What a find! Please share.

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>>2452500
Quetzalcoatlus must have been a true wonder to behold. From what I understand, atmospheric density was much higher then, so they would not be able to fly in today's skies.

>>2452517
>a skin patch of like one inch
>able to confirm that there was nothing on an animal that could grow to slightly over 40 feet and weighed several tons

>>2452536
Lol, did you seriously fall for "le random patches of feathers XD" meme? Things like that don't just affect a few areas, if a dinosaur's scales evolve into feathers that change will be relatively uniform, do you honestly they just evolved one feather at a time?

>>2451183
>hundreds of millions of generations
Wtf? There weren't even many hundreds of millions of YEARS since feathers first started evolving, let alone generations. I agree otherwise though.

>>2452556
*honestly think

>>2452536
As another point, why would something as massive as a T-Rex have feathers? It would be fucking melting with that much heat.

>>2451600
>>2452500
OP said dinosaurs

>>2452562
>heat
the ostrich and emu say hi

>>2451800
Snickety snick, bitches!

>>2452562
Feathers and undercoats are insulation. Insulation protects form cold -and- heat. Besides, there's plenty of tropical and desert birds that do fine in the heat.

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tyrannosaurs hog all the large predator spotlight.
no love for abelisauridae?

>>2452566
>Emus an Ostriches are comparable to Mammoth sized Theropods

>>2452585
The problem wouldn't be outside heat.

>>2452498
>I won't discount the possibility of varying coverage from species-to-species
Yutyrannus isn't a species of Tyrannosaurus.

in fact there is only one species of Tyrannosaurus.

What is the dino wth a long spike on its head it uses as a nose? I love that one

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>>2451091
What kind of manlet country are you from?

>>2452529
Best part is actually that you're right about atmospheric density (and CO2 levels) but wrong about it's implications. Higher oxygen and carbon dioxide mostly effected plants and insects (as well as other microscopic biota), but it made no practical difference to the pterosaurs or indeed, any other large animal of the time. While Quetzalcoatlus does exceed limit for CONTINUOUS flapping flight of around 30 kg, the bugger just solved the problem by soaring over longer distances.

>>2452593
>Walking scavenging sausages with four pronged nips
Not all that impressive anon

>>2452929
>you're right about atmospheric density
No.

>>2452559
You do know for quickly reproducing species a generation could span much less than 1 year right?

>>2452498
Except they likely didn't, you mong. We have rex skin impressions that are all scaled, and numerous relatives who only have scaled skin impressions.
Currently, the only place it might, and that's a very big might, have had featers was the back.

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>>2452536
>one inch
Try 19 inches, 8 inches and 4 inches.

>>2454746
anon, this is not the "ants discussing dinosaurs" thread.

Is this the salty scaletards general here or what?

Allosaurus probably.

>almost the same size of a trex
>faster
>hunts in packs as opposed to being a lone hunter
>would win an arm wrestle against me
>lived in the Jurassic, the peak of dinosaur radiation

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>>2451091
I too once thought Deynonichus were the raptors depicted by the Jurassic Park movies and Utha was a ginourmous beast about 8m long. those dino books from the 90s were really misleading as fuck.

If birds descended from dinosaurs, did several species of dinosaurs evolve to have beaks and feathers or do all birds have a single common "hominid style" ancestor?

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>>2450723

Dinosauura disnt exist you fucking fedora tippers.
Read the bible ffs

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>>2455149
XD. WTF

>>2455132
>did several species of dinosaurs evolve to have beaks and feathers or do all birds have a single common "hominid style" ancestor?
both

>>2455132
>>2455760
Feathers and beaks both evolved in dinosaurs before birds evolved. They're found in lots of dinosaurs that weren't directly ancestral to birds.

All birds evolved from a single dinosaur. That dinosaur had feathers, but not a beak. Birds inherited feathers from their ancestors, but had teeth and no beak when they first appear. The beak in birds evolved much later.

>>2451183
This makes zero sense. Feathers evolved for something different and then they were used for flight, they did not started appearing out of nowhere along side flight
>>2451208
Is like a running sausage

>>2452421
>Rex didn't have feathers, they recently found an imprint confirming they had scaly skin.
It only proves that it did not had feathers on that area, which for such a huge animal makes sense
Although, I still expect at least some dinofur in some places, like an elephant or a whale

>>2455779
>Feathers evolved for something different and then they were used for flight
It's not talking about feathers in general.

it's talking about asymmetrical flight feathers. which very much evolved alongside flight.
>>2455781
>It only proves that it did not had feathers on that area,
those AREAS. there's 20-something known patches from all over the animal.

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>>2455762

>>2452421
birds also have scales. strong phylogenetic evidence as many of its close relatives have feather impressions.

>>2455891
>many of its close relatives have feather impressions.
none of its close relatives have feather impressions.

2 of its very distant relatives do.

Chilesaurus is my favourite Ornithoscelidan.

>>2451208
stuff of fucking nightmares desu

imagine wandering a wasteland after your plane crashed in the desert or on some island and you suddenly see two or three of these hideous abominations slithering towards you

>>2451843
So, is this fucking real? Wouldn't this be the only quadrupedal theropod ever or some shit? Or the only aquatic dinosaur?

>>2458138
Material from the Ibrahim specimen has since been referred to three different species, one of them in a different genus.

>>2458144
So, what the fuck?

>>2458136
>slithering

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WE WUZ DINOS N SHIT

>>2450723
>fluffy t. rex
Might as well post a scaly Velociraptor.

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>>2450723
daily reminder

>>2455149
>implying the bible isn't compatible with dinosaurs
>Job 40:15-24
>Job 41:1–34
What do you say now, faggot?

>>2459465
>>2459467
Scales are an ancestral feature amongst Ornithoscelidans.

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>>2459480
>Leviathan
>Dinosaur

>>2452500
>and not give the flying ones feathers

>>2455117
>Implying Utahraptor starred in Jurassic Park even though the species was properly described only after the designs of the film's dinosaurs were finalized

>>2455141
Imagine smashing your balls against a post or a rock while trying to land.

>>2455924
Fucking this, Yutyrannus was a Tyrannosauroid, not a Tyrannosaurid

It also live nearly 60 million years before Rex on the other side of the world in a climate that's annual temperature was believed to be roughly 10 degrees C and was roughly half the size. Never mind that tyrannosaurids that didn't come until about 20 million years later show no signs of having feathers all the way up to Rex, of which there has never been so much as a shred of evidence to suggest had feathers itself.

>>2460346
Daily reminder that ostriches exist in hot climate and are still feathered

Its pretty hard finding evidence for feathers between the time of yutyrannus and Trex if all of their relatives are only known from bones.

>>2458144
>Get material from Moroccoan fossil sellers
>Be surprised that it doesn't actually belong to the same animal
I called it the moment I read the NatGeo article.

>>2451830
>
I doubt anyone could find all four diagnostic traits even by googling. They were published in Chure's thesis which you have to pay to read last time I checked

nigga what is sci hub?

>>2460373
Daily reminder that Ostriches have less feather coverage than most other birds while being roughly 1% the size of a Rex. That's a horrible comparison and if you took two seconds to think about you'd know it.

>>2451294
Hah file name

>>2460497
>nigga what is sci hub?
a website that doesn't have Chure's Thesis.

there's actually millions of websites that don't have Chure's thesis for free. I'd be more interested if you found one that does.

>>2455783
>known patches

I think those feathers being depicted on the arms are based on the fact that they had quill knob impressions on the bone which we see used to anchor large flight feathers in modern birds.

>>2460982
I suspect the anon was pointing out that quill knobs didn't support flight feathers in animals that never flew.

which seems like an obvious fact but I suppose most people don't realize there's a difference between a flight feather and any other large feather.

Giganotasaurus

Indominus Rex

>>2451208
What is this?

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>>2451976
Saber toothed tiger!

>>2462222
Carnotarus

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best girl

>>2462512
>>2462516
Now these are proper old school dinos, none of that feathered shit

>>2462539
I can literally smell the bait

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>>2462539

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SPINO! SPINO! SPINO!

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>>2462655
That's an older reconstruction, fixed it for you buddy.

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who wins?

>>2462752
depends on far to many factors but it pot my money on 10/40/50 in favor of giga and rex in that order

>>2462724
Yours is the outdated one. try to keep up.

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>>2462752
The man

>>2462762
Ibrahim's 2014 description is based of a single individual, the chimera hypothesis has been debunked more than once

face it spinofag your "superpredator" was a fish eating wimp that skips leg day

>>2462807
SPINO IS NOT A FISH EATER

I bet a leafeater is behind this post

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>>2451951
Fixed that for ya

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Yutyrannus is where it's at

>>2451089
My nigro

>>2462807
>the chimera hypothesis has been debunked more than once
link to journal?

oh, that's right! You're full of shit!

>>2451716
I too watched the first episode of walking with dinosaurs.

https://discord.gg/jrqetDE
Paleontology discord, if you're interested.

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Never really got into dinosaurs but I did have some books and a plastic toy of a Dimetrodon.

>>2462807
> based of a single individual
Even his work states that there is some inference

>the chimera hypothesis has been debunked more than once
Refer to my previous post >>2460381

>>2463459
>taking a rexfags clear bait

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I like it because it looks like it can navigate through rough terrain better than Triceratops

>>>>>>>>>>>FEATHERS

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>>2462762
> n no, i its not i saw one in Jurassic park 3 and he had normal legs!

PLEASE do me a favor and just do a little research before you post stupid things on the internet.

>>2462950
Is this bait or are you really 12 years old?

>>2463597
https://peerj.com/articles/1323/

why are the spinofags constanly brinbg up Sigilmassasaurus?

the only remains of it are vertebra so even if it was wrongly synomymised with Spinoosaurus removing it would have little to no effect on Ibrahims reconstruction...

>>2463635
>it would have little to no effect on Ibrahims reconstruction...
the reconstruction only works if the bones used were all from the same individual.

it has been demonstrated that not only are they not the same individual, they aren't even the same species or genera.

Sigilmassasaurus is only 1/3 of the problem though. Ibrahim's skeleton was reassigned to THREE different species, not just two. It was more than just the vertebrae that were reclassified.

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>>2451722
I think you mean tickle chicken

patrician taste btw

>>2450723
>feathers

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>>2450723
I'm a theropod kid all the way, so probably Baryonyx, Utahraptor, Quinzhousaurus or Australovenator.

Would Sarcosuchus count as a "dinosaur" too or is it an Archosaur [since it's a Crocodilian]?

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>>2451091
That's also the dinosaur that Diego transforms into~

Well... a fucked up looking one, but a Utahraptor nonetheless.

>>2463601
leaf eater fag revealed

spino confirmed master race

>>2463606
Thats not a proof, its just a opinion from someone with a sigilmassasaurus fetish

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>>2463281
Here you go pal, a more accurate version

>>2462724
>Jurassic Park babies are mad that their generic T-Rex clone was actually a literal sea dragon
Honestly how can they live having such shit taste?

>>2464129
>le exposed spines pathology meme
Even worse than Ibrahim. Why can't sailbacks catch a break?

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>>2464167
>implying they weren't prehensile and pioneered the first tool use

>>2463833
Sarcosuchus is no dinosaur. It's as you said.

>>2452498
>Except it is likely they did too. I won't discount the possibility of varying coverage from species-to-species. Sort of like elephants and mammoths, adapted appropriately to their respective environments.

Honestly, This

Also, WHO FUCKING CARES. Stop pretending to be world renowned scientists

>>2462950
Well, he would eat them, but he doesn't like the flavor. He's a picky eater, he only eats mammalian style critters of around 25-72 kilos because he was a man of taste

>>2464498
>Honestly, This
again, there is only one species.

making anon's post one the most obviously retarded in the thread. Perhaps one of the stupidest things said on /an/ all month, but that's a pretty high bar.

>>2464306
What's this from?

Carcharodontosaurus

>Spinofags STILL crying

Honestly a fish eater is more unique than a JP superpredator famalamadingdongs

>>2462752
giga; needs to be nerfed

>>2464668
>a fish eater is more unique than a JP superpredator famalamadingdongs
what you like has nothing to do with how things actually were.

>>2464699
are you actually implying spinosaurus was a JP superpradator?

With the curved snout and hollow teeth? You know, things fish eaters had?

I'm not even arguing about the hind leg size, it's just everything we have that is concrete before what's his face came along points to fish eating

Do you honesly believe that it was a monster that just slaughtered other large predators?

>>2464702
>it's just everything we have that is concrete before what's his face came along points to fish eating
except stomach contents of sister taxa and oxygen isotopes analysis of tooth enamel which point to both fish eating and terrestrial hunting.

are you autistic, or is there some other reason your brain can't comprehend a predator that eats both fish and other animals? Is that simply beyond you? It MUST be one or the other, surely no predator eats fish and land animals both! That would be just crazy! One of those things doesn't even live in water! OMG, what has science done?

now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

>>2462752
Honestly I'd have to go with Tyrannosaurus

Spinosaurus is a lanky motherfucker built for a piscivore lifestyle, you can see it in the shape and structure of the snout, claws, arms and teeth. And that spine was a huge liability in combat. It hindered movement and any damage to it would damage the spinal cord which would likely be fatal.

Giga is much better suited for combat, but doesn't have the muscle mass or strength Tyrannosaurus has. It was built more for running fast while hunting, which doesn't help in a fight. The fact that Tyrannosaurus' bite is a one hit kill almost anywhere it lands is a huge factor

And before anyone says anything about arms, look at the pic I am replying to and pretty much any kind of Giga or Spino skeleton and try to tell me that they will be able to reach up to the facial area where most of the fighting is taking place


Overall Tyrannosaurus >> Giga >>>>>>> Spino

>>2464501
He has a very refined taste. Spino is obviously the patrician.

>>2464706
it's not gonna be hunting large dinosaurs with brittle teeth and narrow snout like that

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Who else /Carnotaurus/ here?

what is the best dinosaur

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>>2464769

>>2464708
this is what happens when you get your information about dinosaurs from the Isle

>>2451091
Toy cars?

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>>2465194
Is it not true?
this is what happens when lanky nerds think they're dinosaur experts when they know jack shit just like everyone else on this site

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>>2465197
No its not. The "Giganotosaurus was designed to run fast" gave it away in a heartbeat.
Giganotosaurus, like every other fucking Carcharodontosaurid, is known from very fragmentary remains and we have little to know idea about any of the details of its body were except for general morphology. And considering that Tyrannosaurus has more cursorial adaptations than carnosaurs did, I'd say that's pretty unlikely.

As to who would win? Rex is obviously better suited for combat, but Giga likely has a size advantage. The conservative size in pic related would lose to Rex, but I would et money on the larger one.

>>2452902
He didn't specify which car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6bVhEdQMZw

>>2465191
Now find a gharial doing that

>>2465376
no need.

biomechanical studies find Spinosaurus snouts to be significantly stronger than gharials at adult size. This indicates that they became more capable at hunting on land as they got older.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665537/

>>2465211
Haven't they found Rex specimens estimated to be larger than Sue?

>>2465114
After that one dude made a video they've been my new favorite. They still have a weird snout that functions like a parott's, though.

>>2465413
not really. There's no reason to think they didn't get larger than the largest found though. We will find bigger ones in future.
This is true of all dinosaurs. We don't know how big they got because we don't find the largest ones that existed. We find average ones.

>>2465420
UCMP 118742 is thought to have been at least Sue sized if not a little bigger despite having been a sub adult with(granted very rough estimates) would have had 2-6 more years of decent growth ahead of it, but you're right in that it's impossible to establish even basic species averages based on the scraps left over

with that said once you get over a certain size when comparing different species a few feet in length or a couple hundred lbs stop mattering so much as how the animals are built, I mean even the larger specimen in >>2465211
is a grand total of less than three feet longer(which when both are around 40+ feet long is pretty negligible), maybe a bit taller assuming we even have their postures right

but it also looks more slender and thus was likely lighter, it's skull clearly wasn't as heavy or it's bite as powerful

>>2465388
so basically you're making shit up and didn't even read the article?

>>2465442
>inb4 the cherrypicking and the quote mining

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>>2465444
fuck that, here's the summary of all the findings

>Conclusion It appears that the spinosaur theropod dinosaurs studied here achieved superiority in resistance to bending and torsion over representative crocodilians by nature of their large size. When size is corrected for, Spinosaurus performs relatively poorly compared to the other taxa. In comparison, B. walkeri performs surprisingly well, its oreinirostral morphology conferring greater resistance to dorsoventral bending and torsion than Spinosaurus and the gharial, to which B. walkeri has been compared in the past. Whether influenced by hydrodynamic or feeding related constraints, a combination of both, or other factors, the size-corrected alligator rostrum is well-equipped to deal with mediolateral and torsional loads, compared to our other study taxa. Our results only consider the portion of the skull anterior to the external naris, and a consideration of a larger portion of the rostrum is desired before a more complete understanding of rostral function can be obtained.

>In conclusion, the unusual rostral morphology of spinosaurs conferred some advantage in dorsoventral bending resistance, particularly in B. walkeri, yet both species studied here were poorly equipped to resist mediolateral and torsional loads. Spinosaurus represents one of the biggest, if not the biggest theropod dinosaur [58], yet scaled to the size of an alligator, gharial or slender-snouted crocodilian, it performs poorly, especially in resistance to torsion. For a taxon such as Spinosaurus, the ability to feed on larger, struggling prey was not conferred by the possession of a snout that was relatively well equipped to deal with associated feeding loads, but may have been achieved by simple size-related advantages.

Sorry you can't LALALACANTHEARYOU out of this one.

>>2465445
yes, that's exactly what I said. The last sentence in particular.

what parts of that are you not understanding?

>>2465430
The Giga in the back wouldve likely been 1,0000 lbs larger than the one in the foreground, if not more. Square cube law.

Btw, its also worth noting how whenever we cmpare rex in these scenarios, we always use Sue the heavyweight largest of 30 specimens. Giga's smapling pool is significantly smaller and its average already probably exceeds Sue

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>>2465446
>For a taxon such as Spinosaurus, the ability to feed on larger, struggling prey was not conferred by the possession of a snout that was relatively well equipped to deal with associated feeding loads, but may have been achieved by simple size-related advantages.
They said spinosaurus had a relatively weak build but the fact that they were large means they might be able to overpower large prey items. So like, a lazy 7-foot tall guy who doesn't work out? Aite.

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>>2465447
T-Rex was a grappler while Giga was a slasher. Giga might be able to end the fight quick with a claw to the face or something but if Giga whiffs its first attack and the Rex gets its chance to engage Giga is completely fucked.

>>2451976
the trike on the right killed a T-Rex in the story that pic is from, always made me ass mad as a 5 year old

>>2459485
behemoth?

>>2465448
Pretty much.
adjusted for size their snout was much stronger than a gharial vs dorsoventral flexion.
also adjusted for size it was weaker than a gharial vs mediolateral flexion.

without adjusting for size it was much stronger than any gharial. Their conclusion was that Spinosaurus began life as an insectivore/piscivore and grew into terrestrial carnivory.

this agrees with the stomach contents found in Baryonyx, and with oxygen isotopes study of tooth enamel in Spinosaurus.

>>2455117
so in other words other than feathers JP raptors are true to real life

what JW2 should do is put feather raptors in the movie along side the unfeathered ones and make up some biological reason for it kind of like the Rex vision-based movement thing, like something you can't disprove that sounds reasonable

>>2465447
possibly, however Sue looks to have a lot more mass relatively than the the smaller specimen as well(and is virtually equal in length). And again what's 1000 lbs(assuming you typo'd and aren't saying it was 5 tons heavier) when the animals are 16,000+ lbs

going from wikipedia(so take it with the required grains of salt) the larger Gigan specimen was estimated by Scott Hartman to be 8.2 tons with Sue at 8.4 tons, so roughly equal in terms of weight despite differences in length

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>>2462375
get that mammal crap out of here, you're out of your league pal

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>>2465450
A rex bite did more than just grapple. It smashed and also allowed it to tear larger deeper chunks. Even Jack Horner tried to use this as an example it must have been a scavenger, die to its high efficiency in tearing and quickly clearing out large carcasses. A rex bite would truly be a dramatic quick end to anything foolish enough fight it.


By the way, even Giga also had relatively short arms of no real use on combat. They were all about heads and jaws; red being many leagues above Giga's standard.

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>>2450723
Deviljoh

>>2465777
carnosaurs and spinosaurs are pussies

It's all about tyrannosaurids and dromaeosaurs.

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>>2450723
the dunk master

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>>2450723
Historically accurate dinosaurs

>>2465794
Not necessarily. They are great in their own right mainly for their environments.

But compared to a rex for combat, the rex is too advantaged.

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>yfw even acro was better built than rex


rex truly was the manlet of theropods...

>>2466111
not sure what this image is trying to convey

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>>2465794
What a terrible opinion

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It and Sauroposeidon probably have the best names of any dinosaur.

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>nobody's mentioned the objectively best dinosaur, parasaurolophus

>>2466397
its the best estimates for their builds

>>2466532
My nigga

The clever one

>>2452517
I have scaled skin impressions of a chickens foot, obviously this means chickens don't have feathers.

>>2466860
THANK YOU

>>2466860
if you have scaled skin impressions from a chicken's neck, back, thigh, and tail you'll be on the same level as rex.

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>>2466532
Based.

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>>2451208
>this is what the future of dinosaur arms looks like
>and its beautiful

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>>2465954
I always wanted to ride a Triceratops or Styracosaurus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TCslzBeYOA

>>2466941
lol look at that fattysaurus

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>>2467330
UHHHH THICKER

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Best dinosaur
Best yugioh card

>>2466941
H I G H T E S T

>>2466111
>
>using MOR 555
>ever
it's a shit mount anon.

>>2451601
>dinosaurs aren't animals

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>>2468254

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>all these modernfags
>all these renfags
>all these doldrumfags
Who /owenfag/ here?

>>2468277
owen was a cack

>>2468277
I'm more of a mantellfag myself

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>>2465114
Ever since i rode countdown to extinction at Animal Kingdom when i was just a wee one

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>>2468295
>woke af

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>>2468308
4u

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>>2468311
>a big fucking iguana
Owen/Hawkins>>>Mantell any day.

>>2463579
It also looks rad as fuck with those spikes

>>2451722
>>2463768
What is this monstrosity? Is it even a dinosaur?

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>>2468313
Owen was a miserable zombie that stole every decent discovery he ever made. While his erection of the Dinosauria on the synsacrum was a stroke of genius the only other thing of value he produced was Chuck Darwin.

Mantell wasn't in it for the money or the fame, he was a pure scientist and a digger. Owen owes his fame to real scientists like him.

>>2468319
>mfw older books only showed the arms
>made it into an ambush predator
>one big arm with long-ass claws reaching out to grab an unwary hadrosaur
>creeped me out because we had no idea what it looked like
>it's a fucking Chickverine

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>>2468322
I'm mainly referring to the reconstructions as opposed to the man himself. That's why I included Hawkins.

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>>2468326
Kangaroo Hawkins?
He did the best he could with what he had.

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>>2451208
I recognize that pickle!

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>>2468329
His work always had a certain charm to it.

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>>2468334
Indeed.
and he wasn't afraid to evolve.

he was a pioneer of museum displays and his work still resonates. Not accurate in the modern sense but as accurate as he could be with what he had to work with.

probably a far better man than Owen ever was.

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>>2468338
Always thought of him as the "Willy Wonka of Prehistory," probably due to that little book they released about him when I was a lad.

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>>2468341
I never heard of him until I was in college studying paleontology. He was famous for the Crystal Palace Park but his real fame should be for the kangaroo stance plus his contributions to rigging and structural support. No man I know of did a better job of bringing dinosaurs to the public.

Now his work is an anachronism, but it remains because it was so fucking ubiquitous.

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>>2468342
Huh, never knew he contributed to architecture, mainly knew about CP and the whole New York fiasco. Would honestly love to see someone put these things in motion.

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>>2468345
his contribution was to hanging and supporting bones.

He invented cradles and lines to hang skeletons from the roof. Things made of cast iron that nobody does anymore. He was a genius at mounting skeletons. Not much of an anatomist, but a hell of an artist in cast iron sculpture, especially with bone.

His designs still rest in museums around the world. He's certainly not forgotten.

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>>2468347
Interesting

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>>2468350
>Interesting
it is if you've ever handled real bone.

that shit is fragile, like a handful of wet gravel.

He figured out how to drill it and hang it and cradle it and keep it in one piece so the public could gaze upon real dinosaur bones without them falling to itty bitty bits.

His art is dead, but not gone yet. You can still see real bones in museums because of BWH

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>>2465794
Nigga...

>>2462655
>>2462724
Maybe both of you are right. Spino could have hunted both ways. Swimming in deeper water to cath fish or whatever underwater life there was AND on land/ in flat water to go after other dinosaurs.
Would explain why he had a crocodile like tail (for swimming) but still pretty solid legs to move fast on land.

Mboscodictiosor

>>2468353
Not sure if you're still there, but I just remembered this little series that this artist is doing where he turns the "science ruined dinosaurs" remark on its head with older depictions of the more notable dinosaurs and other prehistoric lifeforms.
http://www.erickowalick.com/ruin_1.html

>>2451722
>THE CLAW
>Godammit Boris, I'm trying to hunt.

>>2450730

>I am Anonymous. Shitposter Extraordinaire.

>To post on 4chan while my food cooks

>TRex... NO VELOCI-

>>2451178
Your field is the fan fiction of science.

>>2460373
>Daily reminder that ostriches exist in hot climate and are still feathered
Ostriches are barely bigger than a tailless deinonychus and still they are naked in the entirety of their fuckhuge necks and legs. Even some of the the biggest flying birds like vultures and the Philippine eagle show are partially bare.

Largest land animals today that approach median tyrannosaurid size are completely bare and the second class largest animals all have either extremely short (bison, old world buffalos, giraffes, gnus, large antelopes) or extremely scarce (Sumatran rhino) furs.

The heaviest land animals today with a fur for actual insulating purposes are the Muskox, the Yak and the Kodiak and Polar Bears, and they are nowhere near the top 10 of heaviest living land animals plus they live in environments where minus two-digits celsius is more common than two-digits temperatures.

>>2462755
>implying Giga even lifted

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>>2468676

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>>2468678
What did dinosaurs taste like?

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isnt he cute

>>2462375
>tiger

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>2450723
Best ceratopsian comin' through!

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>>2468743
>a challenger approaches

>>2451843
NOT
A
DINOSAUR

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>>2468757
I know this pic is from a proposed theory about the ceratopsian frills, but what's up with the frog eyes?

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Got to use this fucker at work today, pretty sure it's our biggest pneumatic tool

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>>2450723
Dinosaurs don't exist faggots

they're just giant lizards which went extinct in the great flood.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/world/dinosaur-rib-195-million-year-old-collagen-history/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dinosaur-mummy-unveiled_us_59187ca4e4b0fe039b35436f

we even find soft tissue on these fuckers meaning they lived only a few thousand years at the most if not recently.

>mfw many are even blatantly faked in china and canadian forgeries yet referenced as a link species , i.e archeopteryx all to protect the evolutionary paradign.

>>2450730
i am anon, king of the shitains
i seek to make anime real
allosaurus

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>>2465220
>tfw fluffy killing machine actually longer than three cars

>>2469253
Did you just discover a dinosaur newspaper on the top right?

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>>2450723
triceratops because they are pretty brutal

>>2462222
Pickelosourus

>>2469379
Field jackets (the white stuff around anon's fossil) often incorporate whatever scraps are lying around the camp. Evidently they didn't pack enough burlap that day.

>>2469253
What formation is this anon? What species? It looks like you've got a spine there in the bottom right, but my anatomy is rusty, and its always hard to pick things out from the jacket.

>>2469442
>Old ass tail slumping trike
neck yourself

>>2469379
>>2469856
First layer of our jackets is alfoil, second is wet newspaper, more water to help the plaster cure properly.

Winton formation, Diamantinasaurus matildae, it's actually the front left foot.

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>be me quite a few years ago
>women wouldnt let her son see Jurassic Park III where the t-rex gets smashed because he would have a tantrum

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>>2469943
>that son is somewhere in this thread right now

>>2469975
lmao! possible, he should be around 18 by now.

>>2469936
>inb4 someone recognizes it as a new species and names it based on a picture you posted on 4chan.

>Diamantinasaurus fourchananicus

>>2469253
atheists BTFO

>>2470015
They can't, it's more of the holotype specimen.

>>2468711
best Coelo reconstruction I've seen, love it

>>2469936
Nice. Shoulda recognized it as a foot. Good luck with that anon, preparators are the real MVPs.

>>2470045
>it's more of the holotype specimen.
well played

>>2469975
i never understood why they used the allosaur head for that scene

>>2451600
That's not a dinosaur, you fucking loser. God, you must've been the shittiest kid in kindergarten.

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>>2470166
>he doesn't like based swimbros

>>2470058
Not a prepper, just every now and then the lab manager lets me loose when ot's quiet

Yangchuanosaurus

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>>2470180
>bifurcated and buttressed basitubera
>just like Al
esoteric choice

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Found this in my geology class. Not sure how old, but I'd guess maybe the 60s or so.

>>2470168
Most aquatic reptiles, such as mosasaurs, were lepidosaurs. That makes them lizards, not dinos.

>>2469009
Rectangular pupils to scan the horizon for predators, most grazing animals have them.

Allosaurus is my main bro, carnotaurus a close second. Loving that weird bulldog skull.

I get to see that "mummy dinosaur" this weekend, really looking forward to it.

>>2469442
>grass

>>2470482
>not knowing there is fossilized dino shit with grass in it

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>>2470330
>hey, hey Billy, hey
>what is it, Stan?
>what d'ya call a blind dinosaur
>you've told me this joke ten ti-
>Doyathinkhesawrus
>yeah, very funny Sta-
>what d'ya call a blind dinosaur's dog?
>I have no idea what that is
>Doyathinkhesawrus Rex
>you done?
>just one more
>goodbye , hope you choke on a rib

Bump
Tomorrow morning I'm looking for my old dinosaur books I loved as a kid. I'm sure there's some hilarious illustration to show you guys

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>ctrl+f "liopleurodon"
>0 results
fags, the lot of you

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>>2470531
>liopleurodon
>dinosaur
You the fag, fag.

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>>2462752
welp, you decide