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I highly recommend Steve Brussatte's new book The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs its a really good fast read that relays paleontology in a the kind of universal way that everyone can appreciate it. Also lot of great stories I didn't know about like that the father of Paleobiology Baron Franz Nopcsa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Nopcsa_von_Fels%C5%91-Szilv%C3%A1s
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achillesforever6 posted:I highly recommend Steve Brussatte's new book The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs its a really good fast read that relays paleontology in a the kind of universal way that everyone can appreciate it. Also lot of great stories I didn't know about like that the father of Paleobiology Baron Franz Nopcsa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Nopcsa_von_Fels%C5%91-Szilv%C3%A1s I’m not sure how reading this book will bring me closer to having a real Jurassic Park in real life 
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Xenomrph posted:I’m not sure how reading this book will bring me closer to having a real Jurassic Park in real life
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Trust me, my Palaeobiology degree is doing just what the bones at the NHM are - gathering dust.
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ijyt posted:Trust me, my Palaeobiology degree is doing just what the bones at the NHM are - gathering dust.
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I did at least get to volunteer for half a year so that was cool, started off picking out microfossils while the public got to gawp at us before they decided I was better suited helping digitise their frankly absurd collection. It doesn’t help that you basically need to go the entire Bachelor > Master > PhD route to have a remote chance of getting a job, followed by waiting for whoever currently occupies the position to die.
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Sounds like you need John Hammond to extend your dig funding for another three years. I've been rewatching Walking With Dinosaurs and it is still so awesome, innacuracies be damned. It's also neat to see how science marching on actually makes some of the mistakes in the show more forgivable. The episode with the Utahraptors in Europe makes no sense, until you find out that a currently unnamed dromaeosaurid found on the Isle of Wight is apparently roughly the same size as Utahraptor. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jul 8, 2018 |
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ijyt posted:It doesn’t help that you basically need to go the entire Bachelor > Master > PhD route to have a remote chance of getting a job, followed by waiting for whoever currently occupies the position to die. Once they die is there a Battle Royal to find out who gets the position?
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I too would like to know how to make a petting zoo
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Silver Falcon posted:Wait, what? Can you expand on that? That sounds amazing! there was some weird thing where if you put bins on both sides of the same tile of footpath it became impassable to dinosaurs but not guests, so you could replace a square of wall with a footpath and bins and have a way for visitors to enter dinosaur enclosures while keeping the dinos contained. i think from memory mostly it was just a neat quirk and the only real affect it had was making it easier to make the type of visitor who wants excitement happy because they got to be close to dinosaurs. there wasnt any visitor interaction really or anything though
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I assume you're talking about Operation Genesis? In that you could also just set herbivores free in the park, they'd kinda avoid people and not get too close like animals do, but they wouldn't enter any panic mode and the viewers would happily look at them instead of running away. Their behavior was pretty neat, when the park was closed they'd walk all over the visitor areas, but with people around they'd keep their distance. I tried this in JWE and no matter what dinosaur it is it automatically triggers panic mode in both the dinosaur and the visitors.
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ijyt posted:I did at least get to volunteer for half a year so that was cool, started off picking out microfossils while the public got to gawp at us before they decided I was better suited helping digitise their frankly absurd collection. Yeah, hearing "be prepared to do your job hunting in Eastern Europe and Asia if you want to maybe land something the same decade you leave grad school" in my freshman year put the brakes on my nascent paleontology career pretty quick. I love dinos but not that much.
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/giant-dinosaur-bones-get-archeologists-rethinking-triassic-period/ar-AAzQfyi Gigantism in dinosaurs apparently started in the late Triassic.
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Elukka posted:It's been suggested that if a Tyrannosaurus fell over while running (or walking fast, there's controversy over whether they could properly run) there's a good chance it would be severely injured or even die just due to its scale. However, if that's the case I would think they would simply not fall very often, because if you die when you do that's a hell of an evolutionary pressure for learning to stay on your feet. Yeah, I mean the idea of a successful carnivore that grows to that sort of massive size being unable to take (or just easily avoid) a tumble is a bit odd. Imagine how long it took to grow from a football size hatching to the size of an adult and how many successful hunts (nevermind the more numerous unsuccessful ones), territorial fights, and mishaps the average animal would see in that time. It's hard to image the species being successful for millions of years if that were an issue.
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Wikipedia also makes the point that giraffes are susceptible to this risk too.
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Just look at Allosaurus. Pretty much all of the fossil specimens they've discovered have shown a load of bone damage and microfractures, which paints the impression that these were extremely active predators that took a beating as they hunted. It would be pretty bad if an Allosaurus messed up its attack on a sauropod and instantly died.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Just look at Allosaurus. Pretty much all of the fossil specimens they've discovered have shown a load of bone damage and microfractures, which paints the impression that these were extremely active predators that took a beating as they hunted. It would be pretty bad if an Allosaurus messed up its attack on a sauropod and instantly died.  ) has been working on why and it might have to do with the local water chemistry of that area being toxic and creating a predator trap.
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Could also be an oasis during the dry season in the Morrison formation that caused that. The Allosaurus population drives off the herbivores and the theropods turn to cannibalism and then mass starvation or dehydration as the water dries up/turns poison from stagnation.
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So, I was thinking about buying the game. How good do you guys think it is?
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ProZocK posted:So, I was thinking about buying the game. How good do you guys think it is? If you really want to run a jp theme park its worth it. If your leaning to being on the fence either wait for a price drop or see what updates they bring out. Its a very shallow game at this time but has potential.
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drat, I've been looking at the fallen kingdom dlc and what did they do to the Allosaurus? I don't even know what kind of theropod they were going for with that one but it doesn't look anything like the actual creature. Apart from having the lacrimal crests over the eyes pretty much nothing about the Jurassic World model looks anything like an Allosaurus. The head is wrong, the tail is way too long proportionate to the shorter legs, and the whole creature looks too skinny while simultaneously being too drat big. Its in the size range of Saurophaganax or Epanterias, but it still doesn't look like an allosaurid. It's my favorite dinosaur I get to sperg about this, especially since walking with dinosaurs already made the perfect Allosaurus representation.
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Nothing in Jurassic Park/World is a dinosaur etc.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no one has ever made the perfect dino representation.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no one has ever made the perfect dino representation. The movie Jurassic Park made the most perfect representation of a T-Rex, and I don’t care what any alleged “scientists” or so-called “real world scientific facts” say to the contrary. 
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I just want my beautiful apex predator big boys to be pretty and have hatchet jaws
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no one has ever made the perfect dino representation.
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Just a heads up, there is suppose to be a twitch stream today about patch 1.4. They are going to show all the new things it is going to add to the game. I think its suppose to start around 2pm https://steamcommunity.com/games/JurassicWorldEvolution/announcements/detail/1690426356202514006
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Tythas posted:from Frontiers community manager Were people really up in arms over dinosaur sizes lmao
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Deakul posted:Were people really up in arms over dinosaur sizes lmao Dino nerds are hardcore.
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#NotMyAllosaurus
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Deakul posted:Were people really up in arms over dinosaur sizes lmao My brother directed me to the Reddit forum before the game had even come out and people there were going nuts about it.
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New free update coming soon, including a bunch of stuff like day/night cycles, dino behavior changes, and larger feeders that require less restocking. Also there’s a paid update they’re announcing later in the week. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/456305-Important-Update-1-5-coming-soon!
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They do move in herds! That update will probably get me to pick it up again. The other major dinosaur behavior thing I'd like to see is to get them to proactively take care of their goddamn needs. A dinosaur that prefers plains should not be stressed out because it's stuck in a forest because it's too dumb to move onto the adjacent plain.
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I think part of that might be a ratio thing - if the enclosure doesn’t have a high enough percentage of plains vs forest, the dinosaur will freak out no matter where it’s standing. I ran into that on the tiny night-time island when trying to put a T-Rex in a small enclosure, if I put one tree too few overall in the pen then the Rex would freak out and smash down the fences even if it was standing in a cluster of trees.
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The first expansion is called "The Secrets of Doctor Wu" and costs a whopping $15 for the following:quote:We are happy to announce that our first major campaign expansion, Jurassic World Evolution: Secrets of Dr. Wu, is coming to Jurassic World Evolution on November 20, 2018. New missions, locations, and dinosaurs will offer a previously unseen and intriguing side to the story! The name sounds like an episode of the old Jonny Quest cartoon.
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I'll give them credit for slapping 15 quid on 5 dinos and a slither of story content. The free update may get me to give it another blast though.
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The Croc posted:I'll give them credit for slapping 15 quid on 5 dinos and a slither of story content. 
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