>Tyrannosaurus is native to the United States

>>28620765
So are you mad about there being wild elephants, rhinos, giraffes and camels in the Japanese regions too,

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>>28620765
A naked trex in 2016, disgusting

>>28620882
>Mega Tyrantrum
>it gets one of those stereotypical giant red coats that kings wear

>>28620765
>deoxys is from space
>make pokemon games not set in space

it's one single pokemon. accurate geological locations for everything would leave us either with a clusterfuck world like the real one, or a region full of nothing but birds and rodents. get over yourself, and don't convince yourself that your logic is flawless. apply it anywhere else and your argument is fucking stupid. pokemon is not realistic. Get. Over. It.

>>28620765
*noticies ur buldge*
OwO what's dis?

>>28620765
what the fuck is a pangaea

>>28620980
stop

>>28621056
>Pangea
Tyrannosaurus is icredibly recent, even compared to most other dinosaurs, the continents broke apart millions of years before it already
Fucking retard

>>28621056
This >>28621129

Riding off of that, the continents were basically in the exact same position they're in now.

>>28621056
>Pangea
>Which was before the fucking dinosaurs
"I don't read books lol guys"

What the fuck is a polar bear doing in New York

>nb4 HURR UPSTATE

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>>28620882
To be fair, we have unfeathered skin prints of T.rex. Not all large theropods would necessarily be feathered, even if their relatives were. Carnotaurus definitely didn't have feathers, for instance.

>>28621229
But there's polar bears in New York as well as most major cities

>>28621229
you haven't seen Norm of the North?

>>28621237
then feathers were probably on top of the head for show right? I can imagine tyrantrum's crown as having feathers instead of fur and rock spike

>>28621237
Unfeathered because like birds, not all of them is covered in feathers? Like the legs? I guess it depends on the parts of the animals.

>>28621267
Feathers=/=fur
They coat most of the body and aren't pplaced only on the head
Unlike fur they can keep you cool as well as warm
If you see an image of a dinosaur with feathers only on the head, it's wrong

What are the nazca lines doing in new york?

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I only accept Fluffysaurus Rex.

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>>28621331
Fuck yeah feathered dinos

Image slightly related to pokemon, one of the artists for Saurian is Arvalis/RJ Palmer, the realistic pokemon guy.

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>>28620765
Zebras in NY!

>>28621350
>nazca lines
Museums

>>28621388
Zoos

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>>28620916
>It gets the red fluffy cape
>it gets a gold crown and armor
>becomes dragon/steel

>>28621376
That's actually cool AF

>>28621430
So, T-rex in france is simple:

Museums

>>28621608
French museums carry castings of the bones, not actual specimens

>>28621129
Why are you so mean? You could have said "silly goose" but you had to be triggered because he wasn't smart and awesome like you?

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>>28621416
>lines that is only possible to see from miles in the sky
>in museums

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>feathered Tyrannosaurus
I am conflicted. It is scientifically proven but it looks silly.

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>it's a featherfag episode

>>28621850
Do eagles look silly to you too?

>>28621890
>muh jurassic park nostalgia
Grow up.

>>28621850
>Hawks look silly
>Bears look silly
>Lions look silly

>>28620765
The Earth is 6000 years old, you all need more Jesus Christ in your lives.

>>28621679
I can be triggered by whatever the fuck I want to be triggered by, get bent. It's a free country bitch.

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>>28621938

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>>28621434
Yes please.

>>28621850
> scientifically proven
What. I only knew they found feathers on Velociraptor, have they found T-rex's feathers as well?

>>28621631
>Jaw Fossil

>>28622027
And Archeopteryx, but they were too stupid to realize it wasn't a fucking bird.
Tyrannosaurus's close relative (Yutyrannus) was found having feathers, to assume it would be bald after the fact would be the hypothetical

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>>28621631
What's Loan Agreement for Temporary Exhibitions?

>>28622027
it's a theropod thing. turns out birds are actually theropods.

>>28621890
apatosaurus would not have feathers I'm pretty sure. I think only theropods had them.

>>28621890
hey and muh little spiny?

>>28622136
>birds are actually theropods.
I never understood this meme. Birds evolved from theropods but they are different group now. Are mammals fishes just because we evolved from them?

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>>28622027
I havent personally researched it enough to give a definitive answer but the saurian team is basically making the most scientifically accurate dino game of all time and their rex family line has feathers.

Their artist RJ Palmer has done several of the most up-to-date TRex illustrations to be made, including one of the first few images on the wikipedia page for them.

>>28622171
>Are mammals fishes just because we evolved from them?

A better comparison would be fish and amphibians, mammals are too far removed from fish to make any sense.

>>28622171
Theropods=/=Fish in descriptive value anon.
Its an easy mistake, but birds are simply not different enough from dinosaurs, and don't have enough unique features to be given their own entirely separate group

Not to mention birds are older than almost every popular dinosaur.

There's just no justification for a cutoff

>>28622171
no that's not how it works.

I had the argument down, but I can't remember it all right now. I know they aren't literally theropods, but still technically dinosaurs.

I think it's about where things branch off on the phylogenetic trees.

>>28622203
A better comparison is amphibians and frogs, Birds aren't even as far removed as amphibians are from fish

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>>28622237
Avian dinosaurs is what they're called I think.

This thread derailed so hard but I'm really enjoying it.

>>28622171
I worry that this is the type of anon to run off and ignore all of the counter arguments because he already doesn't like the "meme"

>>28622263
>amphibians and frogs

did you mean birds and amhibians or birds and frogs?

I hope you're not trying to say frogs aren't amphibians

>>28622349
Frogs are amphibians
But birds are to dinosaurs, as frogs are to amphibians.
Not exactly so, but it gets the point across easier to people who are inexperienced with the subject

>>28622263
I heard that the entire "Reptile" class is a group of pretty much unrelated animals, and that crocodiles should be united with birds and dinosaurs in Class 1, snakes and lizards in Class 2 and turtles in Class 3. And then there is that weird tuatara thing from New Zealand (Class 4 I suppose)?

>>28622410
oh I see what you mean

>>28622422
yeah birds and crocodilians already have their only group called archosaurs

lizards and snakes are squamates.

the problem was that reptiles were first classified based on appearance alone.

>>28622422
"Reptile" and "Dinosaur" are just incredibly vague words anyways

>>28622422
A bunch of random animals were classed as reptiles because of their appearance, same with dinosaurs

Now both groups contain large amounts of animals that have nothing in common
This isn't a problem, the only issue is the average retard is going to cry foul when someone calls a bird a dinosaur

>>28622152
It'd be cool to think sauropods had feathers tho, maybe ones with a cockatiel crest that stood up when it gets angry or startled.

>>28622461
>>28622470
>>28622497
Then this is how modern taxonomy of vertebrates looks like:
Class Mammals
Class Archosaurs (crocodiles,dinosaurs, bird)
Class Reptilians (snakes and lizards)
Class Turtles
Class Tuataras
Class Amphibians
Class Ray-finned fishes
Class Fleshy-finned fishes
Class Cartilaginous fishes (sharks and rays)
Class Jawless fishes (lampreys and hagfishes)
Really complicated shit.

>>28622537
yeah but as >>28622497 said they were very different groups.

It would be weird imagining something like an ankylosaurus with feathers.

>>28622625
archosaurs would include theropods, but other dinosaur groups would need their own classes for this to make sense.

going into all the extinct species would be complicated though

apparently mosasaurs would be closest to varanids (monitor lizards) out of all the living groups.

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>>28620882
>>28621850
>>28622192
>>28622274
>Feathers and scales
Looks like people don't know how animals work

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>>28624329
>chickens

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>>28624329
>>28624451
>literally almost all birds

Feathers and scales, but how do animals work

>>28622625
Taxonomy is dead and almost all classes are paraphyletic and obsolete. Cladistics is the current system used by evolutionary biologists that focuses on an animals evolutionary relationship to each other.

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>>28624451
>chickens... are one of the closet living relatives to theropods
Finished that for ya

>>28624329
Penacious feathers on tyrannosaurus is even more innacurate than bald tyrannosaurus rex, the evolutionary path for those is Maniraptors and maniraptors only.

>>28624451
>>28625741
This is wrong, I don't know where this idea even comes from, all birds are basically equally related to non-avian theropods
They're all already theropods to start with

>>28622171
Technically mammals are members of Osteichthyes so yeah, they are.

>>28625791
There are more basal Aves and more recent Aves, nerd. There are some birds "more related" to the LCA of all avian dinosaurs since they diverged sooner and therefore have a higher chance of having conserved attributes of LCA; that said they still have undergone millions of years of evolution and the amount of morphological change may be highly variant. But there are "basal" groups considered generally to be more genetically similar to LCA than more "recent" or "advanced" groups. I know little about bird cladistics, however; AFAIK large flightless birds like ostriches; parrots; and possibly sparrows are fairly old groups, but don't quote me on that. I don't know what would be a more recent group but I would imagine owls or something.

>>28626194
I know they aren't equally spread apart to the decimal, I simplified the explanation because most things relating to dinosaurs that aren't about Jurassic Park confuse people

>>28626194
I've been interested in dinos since I was little. What is LCA?

>>28626273
Last common ancestor. Also relevant is LUA or LUCA, otherwise known as the prokaryotic ancestor from which all known cellular life descended. LCA or LUA does not necessarily mean the FIRST birb or prokaryote, merely the one understood to be the ancestor of all known members of a group.

>>28626273
LCA = Last Common Ancestor

Basically, the last species before groups diverge evolutionarilly. I think.

>>28626409
Cool! So LCA would almost be like a trex to a chicken? For a broad statement

>>28626484
Alright well that pretty much just see my last statement look stupid. You can see my reading comprehension

>>28626494
Not necessarily; it'd be more something like the "basal bird", i.e. some prototypical feathered therapod from which all avians are derived; a T-Rex would not necessarily have descendants that developed into the Aves order, and as far as I know, Tyrannosaurus was distinct from the clade containing birds; i.e., for all intents and purposes, an evolutionary dead end.

>>28626494
The LCA would be from long before Tyrannosaurus, since birds are older than the T. rex

>>28624329
That would cause it to overheat from it's own body temperature alone, especially in cretaceous USA.
>>28620882

This is far more accurate, it's done by people who did their homework instead of artists going "LOL feathers amiright!1111! DAE LONG DEAD SCAVANGER THEORY XD!"

Source: Huge paleofag

>>28627245
Feathers don't cause overheating since they're insulators and not merely warmers.
But yeah that image is completely off, not because its coated in feathers, but because its coated in feathers that evolved exclusively on maniraptors

>>28627245
Have you checked out Saurian at all, then? Super successfully funded kickstarter game. All the people working on it are also huge paleofags, the game is set in Hell Creek. They got one of the very first renditions of Dakotaraptor out when it was released to the public :)

>>28620765
>>Tyrannosaurus is native to the United States
Don't you mean Canada?

>>28622192
this looks stupid as fuck

give me my scales please

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I am learning so much cool shit from this thread. Thank you, anons.

Also, I love that there is a thread discussing dinosaurs and a thread prefaced with a pic of Dr. Grant on the same page right now.

>>28628350
Science ruined Dinosaurs.

>>28620765
Wait for real? Holy fuck this continent had some really cool shit now. I mean we use to have fucking lions, camels,and horses but they all went away for some reason now all we have is these boring deer and gazelles and shit, and also no walking apes that are truely native to NA the redskins are actually Siberian gooks that came in 25,000 years ago.

I mean holy fuck dude just think back when our neanderthal cousins were dying off the entire New World has no fucking humans at all I mean holy shieeeeeeeeeeeet.

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>>28621850
>looks silly
Just imagine if birds had mouths, you mean to tell me you wouldnt run fast from something that looks like this? The feathers like fur actually give a specific look to the creature like this raptor that looks aggressive as fuck.

>>28628551
Birds do have mouths
This picture is utterly innacurate.

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>>28628663
I mean teeth anon birds would be nightmare fuel if they had razor sharp teeth.

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>>28624698

>>28620765
I was just thinking about this at work today, what the fuck.

>>28620765
I'm still fully convinced that generation 5 and generation 6 pokemon were meant to be switched based on what regions they appear in.

>tfw this thread goes off the rails and I actually enjoy it

>>28628702
Imagine what the souls of pterosaurs must be thinking when they see their former food dominating the skies now.

>>28628350
Animals and science don't care about what you want

>>28620882
I'll take the unaccurate version any day

I'm tired of wannabe paleofags shoving the feather shit on every single work of fiction regarding dinosaurs.

>>28620765
>whining about american and french origins when Pokemon isn't even set in the same universe as Earth

>>28629186
Y tho

I can understand if it's annoying but

>>28629186
And I'm tired of scalefags who can't let go of their movie monsters

Feathers of many different kinds, mostly emu-like have been found in nearly all dinosaur groups. It even turned out that all dinosaurs had a feathered common ancestor.

>>28629241
>>28629256
I am well-aware that feathered dinos are the real thing and I like to see the depictions artists and scientists make of them because well they're dinos and dinos are always cool.

The problem is that literally, without fail, I always see people whining about cartoon or otherwise unrealistic dinos never having feathers. It's annoying. Just because dinos are confirmed to have feathers it doesn't mean you're automatically never allowed to draw them with just scales ever again.

It's mostly just an artist pet peeve I have. People nitpicking about something this autistic lost its charm extremely quickly (people dedicate blogs and similar sites to nitpick about this). Up until this thread I haven't seen anyone else state that scaly dinos are the cooler looking ones, by the way.

>>28629352
>Just because dinos are confirmed to have feathers it doesn't mean you're automatically never allowed to draw them with just scales ever again.
>Just because mammals are confirmed to have fur it doesn't mean you're automatically never allowed to draw them with just skin ever again
This is your logic, bar the few mammals with too little or no fur.

>>28629352
Yeah, I think it's completely fine to draw what you preffer. It's more about those people who are against feathers

Too many games and movies still hold on to scales, continuing to push away how they truly looked for newer audiences. Like the new jurassic park and the game Ark Survival. Thankfully and finally there
are 2 games, Saurian and The Isle that go for being accurate.

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>>28629419
If an artist wants to draw a naked mammal you fucking let them draw a naked mammal, you fucking retard.

You just proved my point.

>>28629467
I can see how that is annoying. I appreciate the latter two as well.

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>>28629506
>this

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>>28629549
Bested yet again

My point still stands, tho. Unless the artist is a bitch about it just let them draw whatever.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/14/scientists-reveal-most-accurate-depiction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-created

/dino/ when?

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>>28621237
>>28624329
Looks like some people need to look up more information.
Many dinos have combinations of feathers, exposed skin AND scales on their bodies.

http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rjpalmer_trex_infographic_007.jpg
Seriously, look up saurian, great game in development that features realistically feathered and non-feathered dinos

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>>28630067
>Concavenator!

>>28629578
Chat don't let Ladybug die.

>>28620765

I didn't know France has Panda bears, Lions and Mexican wrestlers? And New York has Monkeys, hydra's and Anteaters...

If we went from actual animal locations, we wouldn't have half the Pokemon we have now.

Are dinosaurs the biggest meme animals?

>>28622002
I don't know, one time my dad caught a fishing pole with a fish still on it.

>>28630119
tyler get off /vp/

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>>28630262
>Are dinosaurs the biggest meme animals?
not even close

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>>28620916
but it already is wearing an ermine coat anon

>>28621927
ironically didn't the latest JP outright said their dinos aren't really "realistic"

>>28631101
yeah, that's probably the worst part of that movie
should have just thrown some fucking feathers on the raptors, I mean, they didn't need a ton, just like, a bit more than they had in JP3 so you can still have the JP trademarked raptor look but be more true to reality like the original film tried to

and they could have left the rex alone because it's still up in the air weather it had any feathers or not

change all the herbivores that had feathers IRL to having feathers in the movie because no one cares about the herbivores

>>28631122
>yeah, that's probably the worst part of that movie

why is it the worst part? it's actually my favorite part of the film, it slapped JPfags "muh scalies" and showed that "yeah, real dinosaurs probably aren't like in JP" because of course, they were genetic freaks

I hated the film and I actually applaud them for doing that

>>28631145
>they were genetic freaks
This is the shit part right here. I wanna see dinosaurs, not shitty b movie monsters. inb4 >indominus rex

>>28631160
you already have freaks since the first film

>>28622192
>>28621850
I like these much better than the lizard one

They look kinda cute while still being terrifying

>>28622192
This looks good EXCEPT for feathers on face and that stupid tongue. I think most if not all theropods had a crocodilian-like tongue so they wouldn't fucking bite their tongues off.

Am I the only dinfag who loved Jurassic World? I might be biased because I noticed so many nods and plot points connecting to the original books, though. But I think the whole "people want monsters nt feathered animals, you asked for entertainment not realism because you want money" thing is not only relevant today but also present since the first park. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, what Hammond and Ingen etcetera etcetera monsters etcetera.

Picture this, anons.

>Modern birds evolved from theropods, so imagine some modern traits retrofitted to carnivorous dinosaurs
>imagine raptors that can mimic human speech they've heard
>imagine hearing a frantic "Oh god, help me!" In the woods.

>>28620765
Tell me then: why do the Pokémon version of the Three Musketeers are from Unova?

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>>28633997
Pls no

>>28633997
There's an SCP about this

>>28620832
I am. Because now they ass pulled regions from around the world and have Pokemon Go. It would be more meaningful if locations were reflected in the regional dex

>>28620920
You are looking at it the wrong way because you are not delving deep enough into the location regardless. No region or corner of the Earth has boring flora and fauna, you can draw from local motifs and folklore. You are making excuses and forcing illogical species in a region because it's devoid of character in your eyes

>>28620765
[cetacean needed]

>>28634966
So this is what autism looks like.

>>28635036
Not him, but Manhattan (Gen V) lacks pretty heavily in fauna diversity due to the urban environment: you've got your flies and your parasitic bugs, the occasional bee or butterfly, a very large amount of pigeons, house sparrows, starlings, maybe a hawk or crow, rats and squirrels. There's not much really going on here. Like, most of the named groups are in fact, birds and rodents. Are you mad there's a desert in downtown too?

>>28633724
nope. I fucking love it, and the tears of other asshurt paleofags brought me so much joy.

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I've learned to accept feathered dinosaurs, they look cool when the artist doesn't make them look like parrots.
Also, I hate when they put modern bird wings on them like >>28621376
No flightless bird has that kind of wings

>>28634925
which one? You've got me curious.

>>28620882
>the skin we have preserved are all miraculously naked

kek

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>>28635093
here ya go

>>28636504
It's pretty fucking laughable how mammals cucked fishes out of being top ocean predators.
Imagine evolving in ocean for 500 million years and then some some dirty mammal from land comes and becomes a better ocean dweller than you can ever wish to be.

>>28620882
>featherfag meme theories
this is even worse than the trex scavenger meme

>>28634925
Which one?

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>>28636283
Wings are good for more than just flying. IIRC, dromaeosaurs are believed to have attacked their prey similarly to modern birds of prey, by getting on top of them and flapping their forelimbs to stay balanced while they bite and claw at it.

The wings in that picture do look a little big though.

>>28636609
I love how scientists are constantly trying to shit on the T-Rex but nope.
>IT'S A SCAVENGER GUYSE
>actually it seems it was both a hunter and a scavenger
>SPINOSAUR WAS MUCH BIGGER AND STRONGER
>It's actually a fucking quadrupedal duck
>I-IT HAD FEATHERS

>>28636584
to be fair C.megalodon gave them a run for their money

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>>28636283
>No flightless bird has that kind of wings

They did. They were used for gliding for some, steering when sprinting and even attracting mates most likely

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>>28636746
imbecile

>>28620882
JUST

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>>28631237
The tongue isn't crocodilian, crocodile tongues aren't even detached are they?

It's based on birds of prey. They have barbed tongues to help throw food down their throats.

>>28636378
A fossil lacking feathers doesn't mean there are no feathers for the same reason that a fossil lacking skin doesn't mean the specimen lacked skin. Shit decomposes, yo.

Not to mention we've found fossils with feathers and bones with notches for feathers. Also, some areas might be feathered while others aren't.

>>28636670
The wings in the dakotaraptor image look big because it's posed to be used to make a 3D model. They're relaxed down further than they would be if posed naturally.

>>28636584
It wasn't the first time that happened. Before the Cretaceous extinction, mosasaurs and other giant sea reptiles were at the top of the food chain. Fish just can't get a break.

>>28637246
Anon said he wanted it to have a crocodilian tongue, not that it had one. Now this begs to question: what exact kind of tongue would a giant bipedal reptile with a huge head, one of the most muscular necks in history and a mouth full of sharp teeth made for ripping meat apart need? do we have a modern world comparison?

>>28636584
Fish are the idiots of the vertebrate lineage anything that is a vertebrate and isnt a fish is smarter than them, freaking reptiles ruled the oceans back in the Permian period, and its o surprise intelligent cetaceans have conquered the ocean.

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>>28629137
They look down, confident that they were still the greatest of all fliers. The young ones will never have glory as they did.

>>28637937
Why can't birds be as big as pterosaurs? Something about their anatomy? The biggest known bird (Argentavis) had like 6 m wingspan, half as big as the largest pterosaur.

>>28636746
>First point
Correct
>Second point
Correct
>Third point
Incorrect

I think feathers improves it DESU

>>28621056
How can you not know what Pangea is? I bet you don't even know what Laurasia and Gondwanaland are.

>>28634881
ill one-up this
>who turned out the lights?

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>>28638886

>>28638139
Im just specilating here, but it was probably more advantageous to be small for escape and for less energy consumption needed to be kept alive. Big pterosaurs cant survive worth shit on bugs while its a feast for a small theropod.

>>28636746
Literally none of those except the feathers were actually supported by scientists?

>>28638139
Birds launch into the air with only their legs. The bigger they get, the stronger their legs need to be. As the legs get bigger, the muscles required to work them weigh more and take up more valuable flight-related muscle space. Also, that added weight from the stronger legs would require stronger legs to get into the air. So basically, a bird that gets too big is literally unable to get into the air, even if it's wings were capable of supporting it, because its legs would have to weigh a metric fuckton.

Pterosaurs on the other hand basically threw themselves into the air while jumping, using mostly their wings.

At least, this is the gist of something I recall reading at some point. I could be wrong, of course.

>>28631101
Actually, the novel for the original jurassic park said the dinosaurs weren't realisitc because of all the animal DNA they had in the concoction. there was a good chunk of the book dedicated to this, even. And near the end, the book just flat out has Wu arguing with Hammond that the dinosaurs were psychotic due to this very reason, and since they weren't genuine dinosaurs, they should make a new less aggressive generation. Then hammond goes old man crazy and gets eaten by a bunch of compsugnathus.

>>28635559
you do realize that the region isn't literally Manhattan, right?

>>28629186
Am I the only person who finds the feathered dinosaurs scarier/more intimidating than the generic movie monsters? Not the ones which are covered in a 5 foot deep coat of feathers, the ones which are realistically feathered, like the one you're complaining about.

>>28636746
>>SPINOSAUR WAS MUCH BIGGER AND STRONGER
This was something pushed forwards by inaccurate movies like JP3, not by scientists. Spinosaurus was huge, though, even as a quadruped.

Wait, Spinosaurus is quadrupedal now?

>>28640846
Not necessarily.

Spinosaurus was very poorly understood by the scientific community for years, since the only full skeleton of it was lost during WW2.

All they had to go on was through pictures of the somewhat oddly put together dinosaur, so they could only make assumptions based on that, meaning different interpretations were abound.

The spinosaurus in JP3 was presented that way exactly -because- the dinosaur expert they had on board believed it to be the top predator of its era, and had a massive rageboner against the T-Rex, which he firmly believed was a scavenger.

>>28641378
Yes, the spinosaurus had a very long body and short legs, tot he point where its arms were practically on the ground at all times.

Spinosaurus was basically a giant crocodile, that was even bigger than the -actual- giant crocodile.

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>>28636746
>I love how scientists are constantly discovering new facts about the T-Rex but nope.
Fixed that for you.

>>28642076
>Facts
>Obligate scavenger
>Spinosaurus is stronger

One of these things is not like the other one one of these things just doesn't belong.

>>28641493
>Giant Gharial

FTFY

>>28642076
I know, but it's funny how a lot of those discoveries hurt the common "cool" idea of a T-Rex but then nope, theory confutated. It's like that dinosaur is destined to be cool no matter what

>>28640301
yep

>>28642185
Robbert Bakker is our hero.

>>28642166
Still arguable whether the spinosaurus fed exclusively on fish, or if it also fed on smaller land animals.

Point is, even if it was just a fish eater, the spinosaurus's size is nothing to scoff at. It was literally THE biggest land predator that we know of in existence, and if certain theories are to be believed, it was actually adapted to be able to swim.

This was a thing that would probably have very little natural predators, and despite not having the T-rex's ridiculous jaw strength, it could still very likely just be able to shove anything that wasn't a sauropod to the floor without so much as a second thought.

>>28641493
>The spinosaurus in JP3 was presented that way exactly -because- the dinosaur expert they had on board believed it to be the top predator of its era, and had a massive rageboner against the T-Rex, which he firmly believed was a scavenger.

He also thinks Triceratops and Torosaurus are the same thing.

>>28641788
are dino's cold blooded like gators or warm-blooded like birbs?

>>28643236
Theropods almost certainly have warm blood, but there is evidence that some other dinosaurs change whether they are cold or warm blooded through their lifespans.

>>28643236
>>28643302
Although, to add, anything is possible since we recently discovered an extinct cold blooded goat.... fuckin science.

>>28641788
meme spino was debunked

>>28643326
lolwut that's fucking awesome

>>28643338
No it wasn't, one asshurt guy made an article, that article was debunked.

>>28642619
>Triceratops and Torosaurus are the same thing.
This is something that bothers me. That would be like saying that foxes turn into wolves when they mature because their bones are similar and that any differences comes from their maturing. Like, what the fuck, mr. scientist? you should know better.

>>28637937
>that image
I magine how it would've been if Pterosaurs somehow survived and continued to evolve and some became land based again. How would've those creatures looked like ?

>>28643470
Horner is a fucking idiot, he has done so many things that have been disproven.

Bakker is based as fuck tho

>>28643326
Just checked
>goat body
>rat teeth
>frontal vision
>lizardlike bones
>cold blooded
What the unholy fuck was this thing

>>28643857
Satan's pet, probably.

>>28643857
Pretty cool, from the sound of it.

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>>28641493
>>28641788
Spine Pokemon
Rock/Water
Ability: Solar Power (HA: Swift Swim)

>>28636283
>No flightless bird has that kind of wings

Except those are literally the wings that many dinosaurs had. The picture you posted looks like the dinosaur has mange and isn't how feathers work.

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>>28637246
>those barbs
bird tongues are scary.

>>28647940
>>28648150
That's a fucking dinosaur.

>>28635036
no, it seriously just doesn't matter, sperglord