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Post by Horridus on Jan 11, 2010 20:38:21 GMT
None of them have their tail tips. True, although they get pretty close. It seems unlikely that Tyrannosaurus had a diplodocid-style tail!
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 11, 2010 21:30:06 GMT
Snow in Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, Russia, Australia and Antarctica in the Cretaceous period i reckon. And maybe in the Arctic in the late Jurassic too. Wasn't a partly mummifies Ichthyosaurus found there? Imagine an ichthy swimming under an ice sheet and suddenly an allosaur or basal spinosauroid (megalosaur?) plunges it's hand down ang gouges the Icthy's side. And the story sounds a bit like a scene in my planned book of dinosaur stories. Harsh Winter It is a few years after the K/T extintion and a female T-rex and her subadult offspring are strolling along looking for food when they spot a Torosaurus (or bull Triceratops to Horner). They watch it for a few minutes before realising it is blind. The mother charges but the angry old Toro compensates for his blindness with excellent hearing and smell. He turns around just in time to gouge the Rex in her side with a horn. The mother rex, weak with hunger, collapses due to the wound which wouldn't have bothered her in her heyday. The old Torosaurus snorts warily, knowing that the Rex may get up at any moment. After a few tense moments, the last shuddering breath of the fallen predator leaves her body. The Torosaurus leaves the scene. As the juvenile hops over to his mother's carcass, he senses something is wrong. It takes him a few seconds to realise she is dead. Seeing a free meal in front of him, and having no emotional ties to his mother, he lowers his head and tears a strip of meat from her bony corpse. Soon, he too will follow his mother to the grave, along with every other surviving dinosaur. Except the birds. As he finishes off the last mouthful, his descendants swoop down from the bare trees to fight over the scraps. As he leaves, he looks back to see a Didelphadon family scramble out of their burrow to feast on the scraps, and flies hovering around his mother's well and truly dead remains. The world belongs to them now. A few decades later and the endless winter has relented, revealing the first signs of a new revelation, grass. The dinosaurs have gone now, and all that remains of their past activities here are a few weathered bones poking out of the dirt. One of these is the mother T-rex's skull, which a family of Purgatorius has taken up residence in. They may be seeking shelter in the last remains of a bygone era, but in thier world, the possibilities are endless... This story was done in the style of the WwD narrative. I thank you all for listening, and hope you enjoyed the presentation (pretends to be a museum presener). Tectonic plates shift; that means that just because its fossil is there doesn't mean it died there!
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Post by sid on Jan 12, 2010 9:09:20 GMT
Voilá I've scanned some cool pics I've found in an old encyclopedie of Dinos that was publisehd on Spain during the JP fever. It was hugely illustrated. That cool pic was there. ...btw I pretend to sell the whole encyclopedie (11 books). If anybody is interested, it's a spanish rarity I suppose... Eh eh, it was not ONLY a spanish thing... We had it too here in Italy and i'm proud to say i have it completed! The illustrations were, and in many cases still are, really awesome... Too bad it's really difficult to find on the net a gallery of the artists who did 'em.
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Post by Megaraptor on Jan 13, 2010 0:16:25 GMT
Snow in Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, Russia, Australia and Antarctica in the Cretaceous period i reckon. And maybe in the Arctic in the late Jurassic too. Wasn't a partly mummifies Ichthyosaurus found there? Imagine an ichthy swimming under an ice sheet and suddenly an allosaur or basal spinosauroid (megalosaur?) plunges it's hand down ang gouges the Icthy's side. And the story sounds a bit like a scene in my planned book of dinosaur stories. Harsh Winter It is a few years after the K/T extintion and a female T-rex and her subadult offspring are strolling along looking for food when they spot a Torosaurus (or bull Triceratops to Horner). They watch it for a few minutes before realising it is blind. The mother charges but the angry old Toro compensates for his blindness with excellent hearing and smell. He turns around just in time to gouge the Rex in her side with a horn. The mother rex, weak with hunger, collapses due to the wound which wouldn't have bothered her in her heyday. The old Torosaurus snorts warily, knowing that the Rex may get up at any moment. After a few tense moments, the last shuddering breath of the fallen predator leaves her body. The Torosaurus leaves the scene. As the juvenile hops over to his mother's carcass, he senses something is wrong. It takes him a few seconds to realise she is dead. Seeing a free meal in front of him, and having no emotional ties to his mother, he lowers his head and tears a strip of meat from her bony corpse. Soon, he too will follow his mother to the grave, along with every other surviving dinosaur. Except the birds. As he finishes off the last mouthful, his descendants swoop down from the bare trees to fight over the scraps. As he leaves, he looks back to see a Didelphadon family scramble out of their burrow to feast on the scraps, and flies hovering around his mother's well and truly dead remains. The world belongs to them now. A few decades later and the endless winter has relented, revealing the first signs of a new revelation, grass. The dinosaurs have gone now, and all that remains of their past activities here are a few weathered bones poking out of the dirt. One of these is the mother T-rex's skull, which a family of Purgatorius has taken up residence in. They may be seeking shelter in the last remains of a bygone era, but in thier world, the possibilities are endless... This story was done in the style of the WwD narrative. I thank you all for listening, and hope you enjoyed the presentation (pretends to be a museum presener). Tectonic plates shift; that means that just because its fossil is there doesn't mean it died there! What are you getting at here? I know about tectonic plates; is there some point you are making that is unclear to me?
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 13, 2010 0:57:27 GMT
You said there was an ichthyosaurus found in the arctic. Just because it was found there doesn't mean it died there.
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Post by Megaraptor on Jan 13, 2010 6:38:51 GMT
Oh sorry. Brain fade. Might've floated along from warmer waters. But it could go either way.
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Post by foxilized on Jan 19, 2010 10:57:13 GMT
Voilá I've scanned some cool pics I've found in an old encyclopedie of Dinos that was publisehd on Spain during the JP fever. It was hugely illustrated. That cool pic was there. ...btw I pretend to sell the whole encyclopedie (11 books). If anybody is interested, it's a spanish rarity I suppose... Eh eh, it was not ONLY a spanish thing... We had it too here in Italy and i'm proud to say i have it completed! The illustrations were, and in many cases still are, really awesome... Too bad it's really difficult to find on the net a gallery of the artists who did 'em. Apparently also came on the UK (Horridus had it) and maybe on some places of Europe. Illustrations were sometimes excellent, sometimes horrible, and sometimes so-so. I am unsure artists were really hired to do them for the encyclopedie, save concrete cases like the one who did the comics section, but seems they mostly hired old illustrations from artists like John Sibbick (the best ones on the entire encyclopedie, I think). Coming back to the topic, I remember in that encyclopedie that they mentioned a "Permian Ice Age" and there were illustrations of therapsids covered on white fur. It was pretty cool and sci-fi, and reminded me to this tauntaun bug from "Empire Strikes": www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Empire/empire1.htmlApparently that alien was a Reptile used to live on the snow. Apparently was hot blooded (since it was active, agile and fast) and his belly was also used to keep the warm of Luke and so.. Thge design (minus the goat head) is very much a gallimimus or something similar. Starwars creatures were pretty much based on prehistoric animals, sometimes. Another concept version of the snow beast: www.df.lth.se/~ola/Starwars/Empire/empire12.html
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Post by sid on Jan 20, 2010 8:00:38 GMT
Good ol' Tauntaun ;D My favorite Star Wars creature was the Rancor, though...
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Post by foxilized on Jan 20, 2010 10:40:09 GMT
Yeah!!!!
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jan 20, 2010 12:39:06 GMT
Good ol' Tauntaun ;D My favorite Star Wars creature was the Rancor, though... The original sedentary Sarlacc has always been my favorite star wars critter. Off topic I know!
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 20, 2010 14:16:47 GMT
My favorite star wars creatures are all of the weird planets that all happen to have the same breathable atmosphere even though they are galaxies apart.... Oh wait those aren't "creatures"
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Post by Horridus on Jan 20, 2010 15:41:48 GMT
My favorite star wars creatures are all of the weird planets that all happen to have the same breathable atmosphere even though they are galaxies apart.... Oh wait those aren't "creatures" Yes and OH MY GOD SOUND IN SPACE!!!11!! Come off it man, it's a fantasty space opera! It wouldn't be any fun if it adhered to Actual Science.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 20, 2010 16:35:06 GMT
It still isn't any fun. ARGG star wars. My least favorite franchise. I enjoyed the family guy version of star wars than any of the official ones.
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Post by Horridus on Jan 20, 2010 16:37:40 GMT
It still isn't any fun. ARGG star wars. My least favorite franchise. I enjoyed the family guy version of star wars than any of the official ones. Did you watch the prequels before the originals? The prequels suffered through taking it all far too seriously. The originals had Harrison Ford to ground them, not taking it at all seriously.
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Post by Griffin on Jan 20, 2010 19:50:39 GMT
My favorite star wars creatures are all of the weird planets that all happen to have the same breathable atmosphere even though they are galaxies apart.... Oh wait those aren't "creatures" Were you tragically born with no imagination? Lighten up. Yes I have heard it before, "Real animals are so interesting enough! blablabla yay!" Nobody is denying that the earth we live on and the animals on it (alive or extinct) are amazing. Its not about that. Its about expressing creativity. Anyway. I found this book in my local library and sat down with the intention of just looking through it quickly maybe to see a cool drawing or two. starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wildlife_of_Star_Wars:_A_Field_GuideTwo hours later I had gone through the whole book. It was really really impressive. I'm not a Star wars fanboy. I don't own any merchandise nor do I play any of the games nor watch the show. I have just seen the movies, once each. I must admit though that I give them a lot of credit because alot of imagination and work went into the imaginary universe. This book alone just focuses on the animals. Every animal ever included in every movie (and probably novel/comic book although I can't say since I have never read any), even if its for just a second in the background, is in this book. It also has a ton of creatures that weren't in the movies. I love how they actually took the time to plot out ecosystems and species biology, evolutionary history and species behavior. Really cool stuff. Highly recommend it. Like I said, I'm not even a start wars fan remotely and I loved reading this book.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 20, 2010 19:56:59 GMT
I still hate star wars. Say I have no imagination, I don't give a coprolite.
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Post by crypto1 on Jan 20, 2010 22:17:56 GMT
The surface of the Earth has changed dramatically, and the climates have too. The supercontinent of Pangea began to break apart in the Middle Jurassic. In the Late Jurassic the Central Atlantic Ocean was a narrow ocean separating Africa from eastern North America. Eastern Gondwana had begun to separate form Western Gondwana. See here, jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext2.html
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Post by Megaraptor on Jan 29, 2010 20:28:38 GMT
They based the things tusken raiders ride on on Brachiosaurus.
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