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redshirt posted:Like a 5 dollar foot long? Speaking of extinct dinosaurs
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redshirt posted:Like a 5 dollar foot long? Sounds good, please report back (if you survive).
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Dec 21, 2023 01:03
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naruto run dinosaur?!?
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Dec 21, 2023 01:32
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BigBadSteve posted:Sounds good, please report back (if you survive). I fear I have awoken.... GODZILLA
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Dec 21, 2023 01:34
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apparently they all look(ed) like this:
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Dec 21, 2023 02:00
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Buce posted:apparently they all look(ed) like this: dinosaurs got real tiny
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Dec 21, 2023 02:01
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redshirt posted:Like a 5 dollar foot long?
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Dec 21, 2023 06:46
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A cool thing about the cretaceous is that even towards the end of the period you had these bizarre divergences. With North and South America split by shallow seas the species up north got really weird and developed into what we typically assume cretaceous animals to look like. Meanwhile the South American dinosaurs look a lot like the earlier Jurassic period animals except that they've gotten absolutely gigantic. Behavioral depictions aside as it's speculation you should really check out Prehistoric Planet for some absolutely gorgeous looking takes in contemporary dinosaur appearances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGnlAQsRaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuvZn2O1kU
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Dec 21, 2023 07:45
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Arc Hammer posted:A cool thing about the cretaceous is that even towards the end of the period you had these bizarre divergences. With North and South America split by shallow seas the species up north got really weird and developed into what we typically assume cretaceous animals to look like. Meanwhile the South American dinosaurs look a lot like the earlier Jurassic period animals except that they've gotten absolutely gigantic. Is this when the Giant Sloths ruled the Amazon?
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Dec 21, 2023 11:00
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Dinosaurs looked exactly the way they do now, they were skeletons. I don't understand why people insist on depicting them as having flesh.
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Dec 21, 2023 12:33
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I like to think they had kissy lips so you could give them a smooch. 
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Dec 21, 2023 14:57
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Birds are dinosaurs, OP. I know it's been alluded to several times ITT but nobody's come out and said it yet. I also understand this isn't what you meant, but in a way, it does answer the question you wanted answers to. Yes, dinosaurs from a certain time period (ours) are covered with feathers and the colors are pretty. https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/
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Dec 21, 2023 15:10
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Human skeletons = spooky Dinosaur skeletons = not spooky Can we get a scientist to explain?
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Dec 21, 2023 15:33
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satanic splash-back posted:Human skeletons = spooky One is of cool loving lizards, the other is a reminder of our own mortality. I'm a spookologist.
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Dec 21, 2023 15:35
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Here's a cool dinosaur fact. Due to the rotational speed of the milky way, dinosaurs actually lived on the opposite side of the galaxy.
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Dec 21, 2023 16:09
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satanic splash-back posted:Human skeletons = spooky Depends on the dino skeleton. Big giant dino skeleton = not spooky. Person sized dino skeleton, perhaps even some kind of dino man = spooky
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Dec 21, 2023 16:10
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Salt Fish posted:Here's a cool dinosaur fact. Due to the rotational speed of the milky way, dinosaurs actually lived on the opposite side of the galaxy. Here's a cooler dinosaur fact: they still do 
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Dec 21, 2023 16:26
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Asterite34 posted:Here's a cooler dinosaur fact: they still do They actually live at the center of the Earth. I've seen a documentary about it.
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Dec 21, 2023 17:03
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Dinosaurs lived 200 million years ago, but they were also around for 200 million years, so technically they also were on this side of the milky way, but I didn't want to over complicate the point.
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Dec 21, 2023 18:09
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Salt Fish posted:Dinosaurs lived 200 million years ago, but they were also around for 200 million years, so technically they also were on this side of the milky way, but I didn't want to over complicate the point. What we define as "dinosaurs" lasts a long time and is not consistent with the timeline.
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Dec 21, 2023 18:29
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Dec 21, 2023 20:02
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Dinosaurs built cities and technology and had rich cultural tapestries but geology is a jerk and consumed all evidence of it and there's nothing scientists can do to prove me wrong
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Dec 21, 2023 20:11
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cruft posted:Birds are dinosaurs, OP. https://i.imgur.com/TUyMz9E.mp4
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Dec 22, 2023 01:26
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Salt Fish posted:Dinosaurs lived 200 million years ago, but they were also around for 200 million years, so technically they also were on this side of the milky way, but I didn't want to over complicate the point. I believe you will find it was 65 million years in the making
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Dec 22, 2023 01:28
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Trash Saurs
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Dec 22, 2023 01:35
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Modern Quetzalcoatlus is sick as gently caress, to the point where I officially have to change my favorite dinosaur
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Dec 22, 2023 20:02
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i like nice words
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Paleontologists are all frauds and just make poo poo up from fever dreams they have after too many hours in some university basement, looking at bones without proper light or ventilation.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:08
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buglord posted:I went to a natural history museum recently and something that came to mind is if things like the T-Rex still looked like that or if they all had feathers and stuff now. Was it just tetrapods or did things like stegosaurus or triceratops also have feathers or what? What do you think the word tetrapod means, OP? All dinosaurs are tetrapods.
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Dec 23, 2023 01:13
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There's a really good show on Amazon called Primal and that's about as accurate a depiction of dinosaurs as you're likely to get. I encourage scientifically inclined goons to check it out.
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Dec 23, 2023 02:15
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Anne Whateley posted:Modern Quetzalcoatlus is sick as gently caress, to the point where I officially have to change my favorite dinosaur That's a pterosaur not a dinosaur you hack. One is a terrible lizard and the other is a pterror lizard
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Dec 23, 2023 02:50
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The t is silent fyi
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Dec 23, 2023 02:56
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Devils Affricate posted:What do you think the word tetrapod means, OP? All dinosaurs are tetrapods. I'm not trying to speak for the person but maybe they meant trilobite??
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Dec 23, 2023 03:26
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Anne Whateley posted:Modern Quetzalcoatlus is sick as gently caress, to the point where I officially have to change my favorite dinosaur I just... I can't picture quetzalcoatlas flying. It's only marginally more difficult than picturing a flying giraffe. Nothing on earth today has wings that are used for flying and running; they're such radically different forms of movement with such different stresses. Maybe the oxygen levels in the atmosphere were higher back then, and there was simply more fuel to be had? I don't know.
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Dec 23, 2023 04:37
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Lots of existing examples if you think about it. Penguins waddle around and fly under water. Chooks run about and fly. Magpies too. Bond had a flying car and that did pretty good.
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Dec 23, 2023 10:23
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A giraffe weighs around 1000 kg. A Quetzalcoatlus is much more lightly built, at an estimated 200 - 250 kg. I'm not sure anyone expects they'd have ran as such. Drastically different scale, but walking on wings isn't unheard of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDElEh5hi4 From what I've skimmed sources I don't think any contrivances about atmospheric oxygen or whatnot are needed to make the math work on them flying. I know there have been some suggestions that they'd have been flightless, but I don't think that's the mainstream view, and for a terrestrial animal it just looks incredibly fragile and ungainly. Competent at moving on land, perhaps taking prey on land, sure, but this very lightweight and incredibly specialized form for a purely terrestrial animal? 
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Dec 23, 2023 10:25
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What if we are the dinosaurs??
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Dec 23, 2023 10:28
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redshirt posted:What if we are the dinosaurs?? We still post on Something Awful, so 
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Dec 23, 2023 10:34
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Less Is Definitely posted:We still post on Something Awful, so *roars
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Dec 23, 2023 10:36
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Am I supposed to have feathers?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm not trying to speak for the person but maybe they meant trilobite?? That... would make even less sense, seeing as how trilobites don't have feathers and are not T-rexes
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