In my local The Works bookshop, there's stuff for kids as well including sets of model dinosaurs that are purported to be 'realistic'. However, guess who's included too?
It turns out that our favourite synapsid, Dimetrodon, is also included in the range of dinosaur models that are for sale. Personally, I think that they ought to go for the genuine Spinosaurus instead (which reminds me, there ought to be a replica skeleton of that particular dinosaur in the Natural History Museum too!)
In my local The Works bookshop, there's stuff for kids as well including sets of model dinosaurs that are purported to be 'realistic'. However, guess who's included too?
It turns out that our favourite synapsid, Dimetrodon, is also included in the range of dinosaur models that are for sale. Personally, I think that they ought to go for the genuine Spinosaurus instead (which reminds me, there ought to be a replica skeleton of that particular dinosaur in the Natural History Museum too!)
There is an entire site dedicated to the latest dinosaur toys.
I do not read it very often but it is ironic that many of the various companies latest lines are far more accurate than the incredibly dull, scaly beasts of Jurassic World.
I saw the jaw of a Tyrannosaurus at the Natural History Museum up close and personal the other day. It's only a section from one side of the jaw (a little over half a metre long) but it was amazing.
I saw the jaw of a Tyrannosaurus at the Natural History Museum up close and personal the other day. It's only a section from one side of the jaw (about half a metre long) but it was amazing.
I like to think that the expressions of the dinosaurs on the covers of these 'erotic' novels reveal an appropriate sense of horror and disgust at the brazen mammalian strumpets cavorting before them!
Finally a paper on a truly massive - 17m long - Mosasaurus hoffmani specimen from Russia. If you enjoyed the marauding marine lizard in Jurassic World then here is an example of the real thing.
I like to think that the expressions of the dinosaurs on the covers of these 'erotic' novels reveal an appropriate sense of horror and disgust at the brazen mammalian strumpets cavorting before them!
If nothing else at least Jurassic World means that the general public are now aware of these massive carnivorous marine lizards - for some reason they had been virtually ignored in the popular press for many decades.
Well yeah it was what is was - a big popcorn blockbuster - nothing more nothing less.
The classic original will always set the standard.
If nothing else because of all the recent publicity far more people will be reading online about that the fact that the raptors and rex (and potentially all dinosaurs) will have had some sort of feathers or protofeathers - unlike in the film.
Look at this Triceratops reconstruction - just a bit of fun but I love it!
Well yeah it was what is was - a big popcorn blockbuster - nothing more nothing less.
The classic original will always set the standard.
If nothing else because of all the recent publicity far more people will be reading online about that the fact that the raptors and rex (and potentially all dinosaurs) will have had some sort of feathers or protofeathers - unlike in the film.
Look at this Triceratops reconstruction - just a bit of fun but I love it!
If I've learned anything from dinosaur planet ( or is it planet dinosaur?) it's every dinosaur we've discovered in the past few decades is scarier then anything they knew about when I was a kid.
So, why did they have to engineer a 'new' dinosaur?....
If I've learned anything from dinosaur planet ( or is it planet dinosaur?) it's every dinosaur we've discovered in the past few decades is scarier then anything they knew about when I was a kid.
So, why did they have to engineer a 'new' dinosaur?....
They didn't - the writers just had no bloody imagination whatsoever.
I have said on the movie forum here what dinosaurs they could have used - giant 'oddball' theropods like Deinocheirus, Therizinosaurus or Gigantoraptor.
Any of the largest Carcharodontosaurids like Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan etc (the closest rivals to rex in both size and power as the ultimate land predators).
A super-sauropod (plenty to choose from) and all of the wonderful paravians as well.
I could go on and on though and bore you to death.
They didn't - the writers just had no bloody imagination whatsoever.
I have said on the movie forum here what dinosaurs they could have used - giant 'oddball' theropods like Deinocheirus, Therizinosaurus or Gigantoraptor.
Any of the largest Carcharodontosaurids like Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan etc (the closest rivals to rex in both size and power as the ultimate land predators).
A super-sauropod (plenty to choose from) and all of the wonderful paravians as well.
I could go on and on though and bore you to death.
No please do go on!
I was thinking what other dinos they could have used as opposed to inventing the I-Rex to challenge the T-Rex and be the big bad guy, so this is interesting. I've never heard of some of the ones you mention.
The problem for Jurassiic World/ Park franchise is that after the truly spectacular impact of the original T-Rex, they keep trying to outdo the villain in film after film, and have to make it bigger and more badass.
I was thinking what other dinos they could have used as opposed to inventing the I-Rex to challenge the T-Rex and be the big bad guy, so this is interesting. I've never heard of some of the ones you mention.
The problem for Jurassiic World/ Park franchise is that after the truly spectacular impact of the original T-Rex, they keep trying to outdo the villain in film after film, and have to make it bigger and more badass.
Very true.
It led to the preposterous 'Godzillization' of Spinosaurus in JP III which by 'defeating' the rex nearly killed off the franchise for good.
It led to a generation of spino-fanboys which continues to the day.
The rex from the first film cannot ever be bettered no matter how good the graphics become - I just wish they understood that.
I like to think that the expressions of the dinosaurs on the covers of these 'erotic' novels reveal an appropriate sense of horror and disgust at the brazen mammalian strumpets cavorting before them!
I believe that many online retailers refuse to sell these books after the Daily Mail ran a front-page outrage story on them and other bestiality-themed books. They had, if I recall right, ran a story on the dinosaur-themed books a few weeks before with no such criticism and treated them as a joke. One of their many cases of amnesia.
I like to think that the expressions of the dinosaurs on the covers of these 'erotic' novels reveal an appropriate sense of horror and disgust at the brazen mammalian strumpets cavorting before them!
Notice just how large Apatosaurus could get - the Jurassic World version is based on sub- adults (in fact very few dinosaur skeletons are fully grown, mature animals).
When you enlarge the image make sure to notice the tiny mote of dust to the left - that is an average bloke.
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In my local The Works bookshop, there's stuff for kids as well including sets of model dinosaurs that are purported to be 'realistic'. However, guess who's included too?
It turns out that our favourite synapsid, Dimetrodon, is also included in the range of dinosaur models that are for sale. Personally, I think that they ought to go for the genuine Spinosaurus instead (which reminds me, there ought to be a replica skeleton of that particular dinosaur in the Natural History Museum too!)
There is an entire site dedicated to the latest dinosaur toys.
I do not read it very often but it is ironic that many of the various companies latest lines are far more accurate than the incredibly dull, scaly beasts of Jurassic World.
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/
It's teeth are enormous.
Here it is http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-3330-61157/T-Rex-Jaw008-260913-arriving-1500.jpg
Yes indeed!
http://www.uleth.ca/vft/crowsnest/tooth.jpg
http://www.hodgman.org/travel/dino-2003/20030630-2458-DDM-T-Rex-Tooth.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/casts/t-rex_record_tooth.jpg
https://wingedwickedthings.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/870az.jpg
http://www.wulflund.com/img/goods/en/medium/tyrannosaurus_t-rex_tooth_b.jpg
That's religion for you.
http://ncse.com/news/2015/06/new-poll-dinosaurhuman-coexistence-0016468
http://www.cnet.com/news/um-survey-finds-41-percent-of-americans-believe-humans-and-dinosaurs-lived-together/
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/timeline-mass-extinction-50749
http://www.pasttime.org/2013/12/quick-bite-field-guide-the-giant-before-the-tyrant/
blimey better get on with stuff then time's a wasting.....:kitty:
Exactly!
And on that note it's time to go offline (or extinct whichever comes first).
happy extinction!
Meet the 'Hairy Collin's Monster' (Collinsium ciliosum) - and no it's not a title for a gay porn film.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150629-collins-monster-hallucigenia-velvet-worm-cambrian-explosion/
http://www.livescience.com/51380-30-legged-cambrian-worm-discovered.html
http://www.livescience.com/27506-cambrian-creatures-primitive-sea-life-from-the-cambrian-era.html
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-collinsium-ciliosum-cambrian-spiky-worm-02962.html
I like to think that the expressions of the dinosaurs on the covers of these 'erotic' novels reveal an appropriate sense of horror and disgust at the brazen mammalian strumpets cavorting before them!
50 Shades eat your heart out.
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/10-real-book-covers-from-dinosaur-on-human-sex-novels/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMlvhTfpTeI
The superb Scott Hartman's new skeletal reconstruction of the huge Mosasaur Tylosaurus pembinensis.
http://img11.deviantart.net/adeb/i/2015/182/5/6/tylosaurus_pembinensis_by_scotthartman-d8zdpw9.jpg
Finally a paper on a truly massive - 17m long - Mosasaurus hoffmani specimen from Russia. If you enjoyed the marauding marine lizard in Jurassic World then here is an example of the real thing.
http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_318_2/TZ_318_2_Grigoriev.pdf
Brazen mammalian strumpets....what a turn of phrase:D
Thanks - I try my best!
Interesting news about tooth growth in Smilodon.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/02/saberkittens-were-double-fanged-for-11-months/
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-dagger-like-canines-saber-toothed-cats-years.html
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-canine-growth-smilodon-02976.html
A couple of stories that may be of interest - including another mention of 'Hairy Collin's Monster'.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2015/07/01/the-five-most-gruesome-dinosaur-injuries-ever-discovered/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/01/collinsium-was-one-prickly-invertebrate/
http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/mosasaurs-teaching-the-controversy
If nothing else at least Jurassic World means that the general public are now aware of these massive carnivorous marine lizards - for some reason they had been virtually ignored in the popular press for many decades.
Well yeah it was what is was - a big popcorn blockbuster - nothing more nothing less.
The classic original will always set the standard.
If nothing else because of all the recent publicity far more people will be reading online about that the fact that the raptors and rex (and potentially all dinosaurs) will have had some sort of feathers or protofeathers - unlike in the film.
Look at this Triceratops reconstruction - just a bit of fun but I love it!
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/338427/16703185/1329779073097/Parrotceratops+s.jpg?token=28NBCtVXRE7Anulqn2St0BnacsU%3D
If I've learned anything from dinosaur planet ( or is it planet dinosaur?) it's every dinosaur we've discovered in the past few decades is scarier then anything they knew about when I was a kid.
So, why did they have to engineer a 'new' dinosaur?....
They didn't - the writers just had no bloody imagination whatsoever.
I have said on the movie forum here what dinosaurs they could have used - giant 'oddball' theropods like Deinocheirus, Therizinosaurus or Gigantoraptor.
Any of the largest Carcharodontosaurids like Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan etc (the closest rivals to rex in both size and power as the ultimate land predators).
A super-sauropod (plenty to choose from) and all of the wonderful paravians as well.
I could go on and on though and bore you to death.
No please do go on!
I was thinking what other dinos they could have used as opposed to inventing the I-Rex to challenge the T-Rex and be the big bad guy, so this is interesting. I've never heard of some of the ones you mention.
The problem for Jurassiic World/ Park franchise is that after the truly spectacular impact of the original T-Rex, they keep trying to outdo the villain in film after film, and have to make it bigger and more badass.
Very true.
It led to the preposterous 'Godzillization' of Spinosaurus in JP III which by 'defeating' the rex nearly killed off the franchise for good.
It led to a generation of spino-fanboys which continues to the day.
The rex from the first film cannot ever be bettered no matter how good the graphics become - I just wish they understood that.
I believe that many online retailers refuse to sell these books after the Daily Mail ran a front-page outrage story on them and other bestiality-themed books. They had, if I recall right, ran a story on the dinosaur-themed books a few weeks before with no such criticism and treated them as a joke. One of their many cases of amnesia.
just scroll down and take a moment to have a look at the expression on the T - Rex;s face on Taken By The T-REx :D:D:D:D
Is is classic isn't it!
A nice size comparison of some (but by no means all) of the largest sauropods.
The species shown from left to right are -
Apatosaurus Ajax, Mamenchisaurus Sinocanadorum, Paralititan Stromeri, Giraffatitan Brancai, Argentinosaurus Huinculensis, Puertasaurus Reuili, Alamosaurus Sanjuanensis, Supersaurus Vivianae, Sauroposeidon Proteles and Brachiosaurus Altithorax.
Notice just how large Apatosaurus could get - the Jurassic World version is based on sub- adults (in fact very few dinosaur skeletons are fully grown, mature animals).
When you enlarge the image make sure to notice the tiny mote of dust to the left - that is an average bloke.
http://orig01.deviantart.net/dbce/f/2015/174/8/8/____the_earth_shakers_____by_sameerprehistorica-d8yf2pa.jpg