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Post by Radman on Aug 30, 2009 4:01:25 GMT
They actually said it was a Postosuchus? Did it look like one? Yeah, over and over. Lotsa spines. This may become a regular on Scifi channel. The newspaper review gave it 1/2 a star out of 5 so don't expect Bogart and Bacall. The beast wasn't that big, but in the movie it apparently needed a steady diet of people, especially bikini models, about every 2-3 hours. Hey, it's Scifi!  |
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Post by Megaraptor on Aug 30, 2009 8:17:59 GMT
What's it called? Cos my dad would like it(he loves Postosuchus) and we will look for it forever until we find it and watch it. It was called 'Supergator'. Starring a bunch of bozos. ;D Why would they call a movie about a rauisuchian "Supergator"(que dramatic music)  That would be a pretty good title, if the movie was about Deinosuchus(or Phobosuchus, whichever name they're calling the beast now). |
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Post by Horridus on Sept 1, 2009 19:25:49 GMT
Why would they call a movie about a rauisuchian "Supergator"(que dramatic music) Because, like, you know, it's sorta big and reptilian with sharp teeth and it eats people, yeah? Anyways, if they just used a big croc everyone would be screaming 'LAKE PLACID!' at them, which would be quite painful. On their eardrums. Yes. |
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Post by Pangolinmoth on Sept 1, 2009 19:29:19 GMT
Evolution by Steven Baxter
Quite an interesting book so far, The main character is a Purgatorius running around amidst Dinosaurs and what not. Also by Steven is my favorite time travel book, The Time Ships.
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Post by Dan on Sept 1, 2009 20:32:26 GMT
They actually said it was a Postosuchus? Did it look like one? Yeah, over and over. Lotsa spines. This may become a regular on Scifi channel. The newspaper review gave it 1/2 a star out of 5 so don't expect Bogart and Bacall. The beast wasn't that big, but in the movie it apparently needed a steady diet of people, especially bikini models, about every 2-3 hours. Hey, it's Scifi! But now it's "SyFy".  |
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Post by tomhet on Sept 13, 2009 7:15:44 GMT
I'm in the middle of a novel by Jack Vance, The Blue World  |
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Post by Tyrannax on Sept 13, 2009 7:34:08 GMT
I'm in the middle of a novel by Jack Vance, The Blue World My brother actually read that book not too long ago. To this day I always seem to pick up another book before realizing to read that one. It sounds interesting, especially since I hear its filled with monsters. |
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Post by tomhet on Sept 13, 2009 7:36:42 GMT
Yeah, plenty of monsters, I picture them as big Cambrian critters ;D
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Post by Tyrannax on Sept 13, 2009 8:28:53 GMT
Yeah, plenty of monsters, I picture them as big Cambrian critters ;D There are inverts?  I assumed it was going to only include the norm. (You know, reptile-like monsters that are used in every monster fiction known to man) Okay, I must know what kind of creature this is to bring the Cambrian to mind. The suspense is now eating at me. ;D |
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Post by Libraraptor on Sept 15, 2009 20:33:23 GMT
I read "Das Missing Link" by Colin Tudge. It is about "Ida", the supposed missing link between Strepsirhini and Haplorhini, that is moist-nosed and dry-nosed primates. The small mammal was found in the Grube Messel, Germany and is 47 million years old. Fascinating non-fiction!
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Post by Horridus on Sept 15, 2009 20:36:17 GMT
It is about "Ida", the supposed missing link between Strepsirhini and Haplorhini, that is moist-nosed and dry-nosed primates. The small mammal was found in the Grube Messel, Germany and is 47 million years old. Fascinating non-fiction! I've seen a cast of that in the Natural History Museum (London). I might have a photo of it... |
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Post by dinosaurus on Sept 19, 2009 20:05:21 GMT
i am reading meg hells aquarium by steve alten
it is really good
its the 4th in a series.
about a megalodon shark
i highly recomend it if you likr things like jurassic park.
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Post by deanm on Sept 20, 2009 3:29:54 GMT
Your Inner Fish. By Micheal Shubin.
Quite good. A nice & easily accessible to the layperson book on vertebrate evolution.
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Post by Radman on Sept 20, 2009 8:47:32 GMT
Your Inner Fish. By Micheal Shubin. Quite good. A nice & easily accessible to the layperson book on vertebrate evolution. Thanks for reminding me, Dean; I've been meaning to read that book for a while now. Also, this HC has been sitting on my shelf and I enjoy paging through it now and then, as I'm sure most of the gang here would as well:  It's only 30-some pages, but beautiful illustrations and a nice companion piece to Wenzel's Jurassic Giants book. |
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Post by Radman on Sept 20, 2009 8:54:11 GMT
I'm in the middle of a novel by Jack Vance, The Blue World Vance is one of my favorite authors. I'm sure I've read "The Blue World",but I don't recall the specifics at this juncture. Now I'll have to dig through a box in the garage just to check. I finished "Lurulu" a few weeks ago. Ol' Jack is getting up there, so let's hope for a few more opuses from the master. ;D |
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Post by franchesca on Oct 8, 2009 18:24:58 GMT
Im reading Dinosaurs a concise natural history by fastovsky/weishampel.
Excerpt on Sir Richard Owens :
Bill Bryson inimitably describes a memorable event from the life of the young Owen as he chopped corpses for dissection:
Once while carrying the head of a black african sailor [that Owen had severed from the corpse for study], Owen slipped on a wet cobble and watched in horror a the head bouncd away from him down the lane and through the open doorway of a cottage, where it came to rest in the front parlor. What the occupants had to say upon finding an unattached head rolling to a halt at their feet can only be imagined.
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Post by Radman on Nov 18, 2009 19:09:07 GMT
Just finished Age of Reptiles - The Journey (part 1) by Richard Delgado
Simply incredible, amazing artwork andsome really novel ideas about dino behaviour - love the Apatasaur defense strategy and the Tyrannosaur family snuggling, among others. Run, don't walk, to your local comics shoppe and pick this up NOW!
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Post by kevin on Nov 18, 2009 21:48:08 GMT
Well, I finished the human evolution section of that new DK book, Prehistoric Life, so now I am going back to the front, and tackling the rest of it. Lotsa teeny tiny print amongst all of the gorgeous pics. The book takes you through plants, invewrts, and verts from each major time period, from before the dinos all the way through modern humans...
Also, please don't smirk and scoff, have just finished Twilight, and am almost halfway through New Moon. I find it hard to stop, and am pleasantly surprised by them. Then again, I also just finished watching Land of the Lost--the movie--and feel a definitive lack of usable brain cells left, they died an agonizing, screaming little death, one by one. I knew it wasn't gonna be a "good" movie, but really? That was so much worse than I imagined it could be.....
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Post by Horridus on Nov 18, 2009 21:53:31 GMT
Also, please don't smirk and scoff Like anyone would dare to mock you for your choice in literature, per se? |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Nov 29, 2009 4:21:11 GMT
I just read Terminator Salvation: Cold War all the way through in one sitting, 380 pages of future war-y goodness.... Too bad the movie wasn't based on this book, if it was, well, the movie would be like the best movie ever!
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That would be a pretty good title, if the movie was about Deinosuchus(or Phobosuchus, whichever name they're calling the beast now).
I assumed it was going to only include the norm. (You know, reptile-like monsters that are used in every monster fiction known to man)
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