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awh i'm glad i posted then, i was in two minds whether to or whether it would look a bit odd
i like to lurk and the two threads i've really loved following all the links for are this one and the one about the Alexandrian tomb they are unearthing, i really appreciate the links because i'd never find this information if it wasn't for you, and other FMs, taking time to share the links. It's stuff like this that makes me love the internet ![]() Much more to come when I have a bit more time.
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A few recent news stories and an interesting paper on a gigantic Nothosaur that has been discovered in China.
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A very nice size comparison chart of the Carcharodontosauridae amongst whom several species were truly gigantic theropods as long or very slightly longer (but not quite as heavy) as Tyrannosaurus rex.
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This is a trailer clip from some low budget children's film - apparently it was not much cop but what it did do was show some highly colourful feathered dinosaurs including a T. rex - just imagine what a big budget production like Jurassic world could have done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18sOypRW8s Instead very dull naked green, grey and brown dinosaurs that look remarkably boring and incredibly old fashioned are shown in the JW trailer. Even the Mosasaur (a gigantic predatory marine lizard) is shown with a bloody frill on it's back an idea decades and decades out of date plus horrible scaly skin (instead of the smooth very small scaled hydrodynamic covering that fossils suggest) - I just hope they give it tail flukes. Rant over - for now.
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Alice Roberts on BBC4 at 7.00pm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018c9fm I'm very excited !! ![]() (probably seen it before) And the Mammoth Autopsy repeated if you missed it on Channel 4 at 7.00pm too.
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Alice Roberts on BBC4 at 7.00pm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018c9fm I'm very excited !! ![]() (probably seen it before) And the Mammoth Autopsy repeated if you missed it on Channel 4 at 7.00pm too.
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![]() Enjoy both programmes they are very well made and Alice Roberts is really hot into the bargain!
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More moans about Jurassic World (
) and several interesting articles on a variety of topics. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-his-take-meh/ http://dinologue.com/2014/11/real-ju...park-problems/ http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...teresting.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossil-o...e-great-dying/ http://equatorialminnesota.blogspot....new-giant.html |
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A very nice illustration of some of the best known specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex and a size comparison between the two leading contenders for the heaviest terrestrial predator off all time rex and Giganotosaurus - both by the brilliant Scott Hartman.
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Tyrannosaurid expert Thomas R. Holtz article on the great beasts from 2011 explaining how very unusual they actually were compared to most other theropods.
https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.c...-not-the-hype/ Dave Hone's brief overview of Tyrannosaurs in Fossil Focus. http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/a...-tyrannosaurs/
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For the last couple of months I've had a Tyrannosaurus Rex pic as my wallpaper.
It's a specimen from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_skeleton.jpg |
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For the last couple of months I've had a Tyrannosaurus Rex pic as my wallpaper.
It's a specimen from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_skeleton.jpg
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For the last couple of months I've had a Tyrannosaurus Rex pic as my wallpaper.
It's a specimen from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_skeleton.jpg I think I will use that for my wallpaper now. Also (discounting fragmentary remains of even larger specimens) at around 8.4 - 10.5 tons this particular T.rex is still the heaviest carnivorous dinosaur on record.
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That is the famous 'Sue' - 12.3 metres of predatory perfection and the most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton in the world.
I think I will use that for my wallpaper now. Also (discounting fragmentary remains of even larger specimens) at around 8.4 - 10.5 tons this particular T.rex is still the heaviest carnivorous dinosaur on record. ![]() ![]() (I had to add a black border to the top and bottom of the photo in order to get it to sit nicely on my screen (1024x768).) |
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An interesting article here on why paleontologists are understandably disappointed with the dinosaurs seen in the new 'Jurassic World' trailer:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/l...urs-movie-film It does seem like a missed opportunity not to show dinosaurs in the way that they are currently believed to have appeared e.g. with feathers. There's some belief now that even Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers, even if it was just a light down: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...na-d4v5qd9.jpg |
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As I have been resurrected I will post a shitload of links after my 'break'.
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An interesting article here on why paleontologists are understandably disappointed with the dinosaurs seen in the new 'Jurassic World' trailer:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/l...urs-movie-film It does seem like a missed opportunity not to show dinosaurs in the way that they are currently believed to have appeared e.g. with feathers. There's some belief now that even Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers, even if it was just a light down: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...na-d4v5qd9.jpg That is an illustration of Yutyrannus huali - the first large Tyrannosaur that was preserved well enough to show it's feathery integument. If T.rex had lived in China the preservation would have shown the same - unlike the 70's bullshit of Jurassic World.
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National Geographic article about how all dinosaurs (not just theropods) probably had proto-feathers or feathers.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ology-science/ Brief review of SVP 2014. http://discoverific.blogspot.co.uk/2...-svp-2014.html The incredible Pterosaur bonebeds. http://gimpasaura.blogspot.co.uk/201...-bonebeds.html That oddball giant theropod Deinocheirus again. http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.co...ble-hands.html A new species of Tyrannosaur with evidence of predation (or possibly scavenging) due to tooth marks preserved in an Alamosaurus leg bone. http://www.wggb.com/2014/12/09/new-d...es-discovered/ All good stuff.
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A shitload of information about the new ancestral ceratopsian (horned dinosaur) found in the US.
I just love the reconstruction (a very high quality illustration in my opinion) and the rather cute pic of one being cradled like a beloved pet. ![]() The first link explains the story of the reconstruction of the little sod by the artist. http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=1220 http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/2014/12/10/aquilops-hello/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ology-science/ http://www.snomnh.ou.edu/Aquilops_Dinosaur http://westerndigs.org/oldest-horned...ed-in-montana/ http://phys.org/news/2014-12-oldest-...ies-north.html http://www.livescience.com/49086-old...ur-fossil.html http://www.livescience.com/49082-pho...-dinosaur.html |
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Fascinating new research for all of the Creationists to totally ignore.
![]() http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ution-science/ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/current http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/12/crocodile-genomes.html http://phys.org/news/2014-12-penguin-genomes.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...t-their-teeth/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...inosaur-pasts/ http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...ry.html#page=1 http://phys.org/news/2014-12-lsu-mod...-historic.html |
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A couple of very nice animations I found on Youtube.
Notice that the rex is feathered and the Trike has quills - what a shame Jurassic World is going to be so bloody old fashioned, uninspired and inaccurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dZRRqvwQ_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_5gOI9QqpI |
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As it's Christmas soon.
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Dinosaur extinction down to volcanoes, climate change and ocean acidification?
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Dinosaur extinction down to volcanoes, climate change and ocean acidification?
http://www.livescience.com/49097-lav...xtinction.html ![]() The Deccan Traps were certainly a contributory factor but the Chicxulub impact event was the major extinction hammerblow to the non-avian dinosaurs in my opinion. But the new precise dating of that massive volcanic activity is certainly adding to the picture. |
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i like to lurk and the two threads i've really loved following all the links for are this one and the one about the Alexandrian tomb they are unearthing, i really appreciate the links because i'd never find this information if it wasn't for you, and other FMs, taking time to share the links. It's stuff like this that makes me love the internet 

