Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Anyone else read Raptor Red when they were a kid?

Unperson_47 posted:

I have never see a post that is more wrong

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

Anyone else read Raptor Red when they were a kid?

nomad2020 posted:

I never read the book but I hear it handles the evil company stuff better.

Hasturtium posted:

Yep, because the movies were significantly influenced by Gregory S. Paul’s book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, which is well-written and beautifully illustrated but made some rather unusual suggestions for reclassification of some theropods… And one of the more salacious was to reclassify Deinononychus, a larger dromaeosaur, as a member of the genus Velociraptor. The broader paleontological community read it, conferred briefly, and disagreed, but the Jurassic Park guys took it and ran with it, so now we have Big Raptors as part of the discourse even though they’re wrong. Worse, even though Paul advocated for the presence of feathers in his book, Jurassic Park ignored that.

root beer posted:

Hell, Deinonychus and Velociraptor were all part of the same clade, Eudromaeosauria; it all comes down to who looks cooler and who has the cooler name, so Michael Crichton threw accuracy to the wind in the name of edginess.

I get it, but he was a massive prick, so any chance to dunk on him, you know?

ArmedZombie posted:

the only good Utah is Johnny Utah

sweet geek swag posted:

The velociraptors in the book are actually accurate, they're described as being the size of large dogs. It was the movies that hosed it up.

Inceltown posted:

Utah Saints are also good

It's really Utah the state brining the name down.

nomad2020 posted:

To show size, you need to pose the subject with a common household item, like a quarter.

Hasturtium posted:

Yep, because the movies were significantly influenced by Gregory S. Paul’s book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, which is well-written and beautifully illustrated but made some rather unusual suggestions for reclassification of some theropods… And one of the more salacious was to reclassify Deinononychus, a larger dromaeosaur, as a member of the genus Velociraptor. The broader paleontological community read it, conferred briefly, and disagreed, but the Jurassic Park guys took it and ran with it, so now we have Big Raptors as part of the discourse even though they’re wrong. Worse, even though Paul advocated for the presence of feathers in his book, Jurassic Park ignored that.

Captain Hygiene posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Hg5JEVy.mp4

Garrand posted:

I guess it's appropriate given the usage here, but it bothers me that this metal gear solid sound effect video uses what looks like the Bubsy t-shirt exclamation point.

Garrand posted:

I guess it's appropriate given the usage here, but it bothers me that this metal gear solid sound effect video uses what looks like the Bubsy t-shirt exclamation point.

sweet geek swag posted:

The velociraptors in the book are actually accurate, they're described as being the size of large dogs. It was the movies that hosed it up.

Iamyourking posted:

Are you sure? Here's a quote from the first time the raptors appear and are testing the fence: "Grant had a blurred impression of powerful, six-foot-tall bodies" (Jurassic Park 119). Interestingly, they also acknowledge Deinonychus two pages earlier and are quite specific that the raptors are V. mongoliensis the page before that. Then, much later, as the kids are hiding from the raptors: "The velociraptor was man-size..." (330). I think there's also a mention that they weigh 150 pounds, but I didn't see it while hand-checking.

spechtie posted:

when you find a clam
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sd66892VDE1uvv5gh.mp4

afen posted:

I present Flora, a beautiful cat that lives in my city, and she even has her own instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floramollenberg/

afen posted:

spechtie posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_scs5neVq5D1w4nksa.mp4

For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue posted:

What’s better than raising a baby mink? Raising six of them! 🤩

These five beautiful babies came into care today. They are five weeks old, the same age as their future foster brother Zoodle. They ended up separated from their mother when they accidentally hitched a ride on a truck, and nobody knows exactly where they came from or when, so they unfortunately can’t be returned home.

Noodle, Caboodle, Toodle, Doodle, and Death, Destroyer of Worlds will be joining Zoodle once it’s safe. He is very lonely and wants siblings, but they need to pass quarantine and they also need to be a little bigger to live with their lard-butt brother.