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Old 24-06-2015, 21:00
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Another wonderful transitional fossil that will be utterly ignored by all of the Creationist bible-thumpers.

Meet the 'Grandfather' turtle Pappochelys rosinae,

http://www.livescience.com/51334-tur...out-shell.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...955688/?no-ist

http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smit...rtle-evolution

Finally we know exactly what that legendary bizarre oddball Hallucigenia really looked like.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....l-is-the-head/

http://www.livescience.com/51331-biz...-revealed.html

http://www.livescience.com/27506-cam...brian-era.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-.../#.VYsL7PlVikp
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Old 25-06-2015, 20:29
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That weirdling creature is like Evolution x LSD!

Tonight, on BBC Four at 10.50pm, there's the last episode of Neil Shubin's series Your Inner Fish: An Evolutionary Story:

Your Inner Monkey
In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all - a path to the human brain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0607nv3
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Old 25-06-2015, 20:58
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That weirdling creature is like Evolution x LSD!

Tonight, on BBC Four at 10.50pm, there's the last episode of Neil Shubin's series Your Inner Fish: An Evolutionary Story:

Your Inner Monkey
In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all - a path to the human brain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0607nv3
Hallucigenia is brilliant isn't it?

Mark Witton on what far more realistic Dromaeosaurs ('raptors') would actually look like (sorry Jurassic World).

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...l-raptors.html

The famous stem-mammal Dimetrodon feeding on the ancient shark Xenacanthus.

http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.co.uk/20...cess-blog.html

Triceratops and 'Torosaurus' - the debate goes on.

http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=551
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Old 26-06-2015, 20:15
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The famous stem-mammal Dimetrodon feeding on the ancient shark Xenacanthus.

http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.co.uk/20...cess-blog.html
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!)
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Old 26-06-2015, 21:15
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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/
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Old 26-06-2015, 21:16
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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.

It's teeth are enormous.

Here it is http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/serv...iving-1500.jpg
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Old 26-06-2015, 21:21
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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.

It's teeth are enormous.
Yes indeed!

http://www.uleth.ca/vft/crowsnest/tooth.jpg

http://www.hodgman.org/travel/dino-2...-Rex-Tooth.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaur...cord_tooth.jpg

https://wingedwickedthings.files.wor...1/12/870az.jpg

http://www.wulflund.com/img/goods/en...ex_tooth_b.jpg
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Old 29-06-2015, 20:47
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Oh dear - I never knew that The Flintstones was a documentary.

That's religion for you.

http://ncse.com/news/2015/06/new-pol...stence-0016468

http://www.cnet.com/news/um-survey-f...ived-together/
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Old 30-06-2015, 01:31
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A couple of links including the Onion's timeline of mass extinction!

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/time...tinction-50749

http://www.pasttime.org/2013/12/quic...re-the-tyrant/
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Old 30-06-2015, 01:42
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A couple of links including the Onion's timeline of mass extinction!

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/time...tinction-50749
blimey better get on with stuff then time's a wasting.....
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Old 30-06-2015, 01:56
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blimey better get on with stuff then time's a wasting.....
Exactly!

And on that note it's time to go offline (or extinct whichever comes first).
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Old 30-06-2015, 01:58
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Exactly!

And on that note it's time to go offline (or extinct whichever comes first).
happy extinction!
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Old 30-06-2015, 21:56
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An even more bonkers Cambrian oddball than Hallucigenia has been discovered!

Meet the 'Hairy Collin's Monster' (Collinsium ciliosum) - and no it's not a title for a gay porn film.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...ian-explosion/

http://www.livescience.com/51380-30-...iscovered.html

http://www.livescience.com/27506-cam...brian-era.html

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...orm-02962.html
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Old 01-07-2015, 20:45
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There are some people who are just bloody odd.

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/1...an-sex-novels/
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Old 01-07-2015, 21:30
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A talk on Triceratops through time.

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/2...an-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/..._Grigoriev.pdf
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Old 01-07-2015, 22:38
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There are some people who are just bloody odd.

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/1...an-sex-novels/
Brazen mammalian strumpets....what a turn of phrase
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Old 01-07-2015, 23:09
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Brazen mammalian strumpets....what a turn of phrase
Thanks - I try my best!
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Old 03-07-2015, 22:10
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Just a few links.

Interesting news about tooth growth in Smilodon.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....for-11-months/

http://phys.org/news/2015-07-dagger-...ats-years.html

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...don-02976.html

A couple of stories that may be of interest - including another mention of 'Hairy Collin's Monster'.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamo...er-discovered/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-invertebrate/
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Old 05-07-2015, 00:00
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Scott Hartman's thoughts on Mosasaur tail fin reconstruction.

http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/...he-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.
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Old 05-07-2015, 00:18
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I saw jurassic world on Friday..... Mmmmmmm
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Old 05-07-2015, 00:26
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I saw jurassic world on Friday..... Mmmmmmm
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/...n2St0BnacsU%3D
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Old 05-07-2015, 00:30
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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/...n2St0BnacsU%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?....
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Old 05-07-2015, 00:51
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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.
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Old 05-07-2015, 14:31
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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.
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Old 05-07-2015, 23:28
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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.
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