Dinosaur nuts emerge!

Us dino nerds don't get enough attention, come out and say hi.

Hello!

What's up my friend,do you have a favorite dinosaur? If so explain why

...Is it just me, or does the name of this thread sound like something else?

Anyway dinosaurs are cool.

I like Kulindadromeus because it's fluffy. Also I remember being obsessed with compsognathus as a very small Emma, for reasons I have no memory of as an adult

Nice obscure dinosaur, I myself prefer the classic Tyrannosaurus Rex myself simply out of nostalgia.

There's not nearly enough dinosaur media anymore. Back in the eighties and nineties, there were dinosaurs out the ass. The Land Before Time, Dink the Little Dinosaur, Denver the Last Dinosaur, and of course, Jurassic Park... When did dinos stop being cool?

I honestly don't know. And incidentally, this reminds me of my own disappointment in The Good Dinosaur. It frustrates me, because it could have been a much better movie than it was.

Anywho, this is a pretty cliche answer, but my favorite dinosaur is Velociraptor- especially when it's depicted with feathers! And though it may not make much sense, I love even more when its feathers are outrageously colorful.

I haven't read Donald Prothero, but he looks like he'd be up your alley.

I used to be obsessed with dinosaurs and even wanted to become a paleontologist.

Then I learned what actual paleontological works entail and they sound way too boring to make a career out of. I still love dinosaurs, though.

What's your favorite single letter that totally ruins an otherwise amazing word? Mine is the first O in "Giganotosaurus."

Late but understandable, I always thought the name's correct spelling was Gigantosaurus

Seems like Spinosaurus once more got a new addition to it's unique adaptations... A tadpole-like tail

Just when you think it can't get any weirder.

I'm more into mammalian paleontology, but it's so dang hard to find Youtubers who talk about them. It's always dinosaurs this and dinosaurs that.

I've gotten more into dinosaurs once I became a bird person. It's fascinating that your pet pigeon or budgie is a lil' dinosaur.

I think it's because Dinos are cool.

I'm a fan of all prehistoric life, from the Precambrian to early Holocene. That said, I have a particularly soft spot for oviraptorids, azhdarchids and all members of the Pleistocene megafauna.

Prehistoric mammals are also cool, though. Have you heard of Uintatherium? Paraceratherium? Andrewsarchus? Elasmotherium?

I like Walking with Beasts because it brought a lot of these animals to the public consciousness, despite some of its glaring inaccuracies.

Edited by Snicka on May 25th 2020 at 8:56:35 PM

I remember how my dad videotapped it for me because I wanted to watch it.

I am quite a fan of the entire Walking with Dinosaurs franchise (with the exception of Sea Monsters - I preferred the more objective tone of earlier instalments compared to the over-the-top emphasis on how "terrifying" each ocean is).

EDIT: Oh, and apparently I forgot that the 2013 Walking with Dinosaurs movie is also part of the franchise. I don't like that one very much either.

Edited by Snicka on May 26th 2020 at 12:33:06 PM

Still hoping they remake WWD with the newer discoveries and better CGI. The effects of the old one might not have aged too well on the CG side, but the practical ones were awesome and I liked the "uninterrupted nature documentary" style of the original Walking With Series.

Okay, I'm so following this thread. I have been interested in dinosaurs and prehistoric life ever since I was a kid, with my favourite dinosaur being Stegosaurus (although my favourite extinct animal in general would have to be the woolly mammoth).

But keeping with the current topic. I do have a genuine fondness for the Walking with... series, which I watched as a kid. I own the Chased by... spinoffs and all three entries in the Trilogy of Life. Fave series is Walking with Beasts (love prehistoric mammals), but my least fave is Walking with Monsters (it was too short!).

I don't really care that it's inaccurate and outdated, because it was so groundbreaking for its day. People always forget that Walking with Dinosaurs paved the way for the popularity of dino-documentary TV shows during the 2000s, and the fact that it was the most expensive TV show ever at the time. Heck, I think it was even nominated for some Emmy awards.

Also, you're right. One of my favourite things about the Walking with... series then and now is its Narrative-Driven Nature Documentary style. Something about it just really helps you lose yourself in the world of the animals depicted.

Also, does anyone else here remember Prehistoric Park? I watched it on Animal Planet in Canada back when I was around 12 and instantly loved it. In fact, I was super disappointed when I found out there was only 1 season.

I discovered Prehistoric Park fairly recently, and enjoyed it through and through. Though I always wonder why they insist on taking some of the last individuals of each species - is it so that it feels more like "rescuing" them? Or because that is less likely to disrupt the timeline? I also really liked Bob the zookeeper, he's a likeable comic relief character. And I was glad to see Elasmotherium, Microraptor and Nyctosaurus making an appearance.

My introduction to dinosaurs and prehistoric life was the artwork of Czech palaeoartist Zdeněk Burian. While his paintings are extremely outdated (including theropods and ornithopods in tripod stance, aquatic sauropods, and pterosaurs hanging like bats), they are beautiful and, as a kid, I found them very inspiring.

Edited by Snicka on May 27th 2020 at 11:23:27 AM

You know if you want to see really outdated Dinosaur models lets go back to what the first iguanodon model looked like. Oh, and it's been 195 years since the iguanodon was first named in 1825.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguanodon

Oh yes. And Megalosaurus, named around the same time. Here's a nice drawing of the two of them clashing◊ (nevermind they weren't even from the same time period).