Yeah I love dinosaurs, I actually have (college is stopping me now) volunteered down at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh in the Paleo Lab (I'm one of those guys who works on the microscope) and have really big aspirations to become a vertebra paleontologist like my hero Jack Horner aka the Real Life Dr. Grant. Jurassic Park is also a part of that (Saw it in 94 when I was 2) Speaking of Jack Horner I heard he got married! To a 19 year old Nice
edited 11th Apr '12 5:15:43 PM by diomedes2
Also known as Achillesforever6 of Lordkat.com fameTo quote a person from the Jurassic Park forums, the hatred for feathered dinosaurs is because most dinosaur fans are immature males. They associate reptiles with evil, hence cool, thus dinosaurs get scale, while birds are associated with feminity and immature males are retarded, hence they don't care that many birds were masculine symbols, like the eagle and the rooster.
Therefore, because they are immature and retarded, they can't nature doesn't give two shits about whereas something is considered aesthetically pleasing, just that whereas it survives or not. Featherless dinosaur abominations had zero chances of survival.
And learning is half the battle. (GI Joe!)
A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cultMost dinosaur fans do not believe the theory that birds are descended from any branch of dinosaurs.
So, most dinosaur fans are anti-Bakkerites.
If you want any of my avatars, just Pm me I'd truly appreciate any avatar of a reptile sleeping in a Nice Hat Read Elmer Kelton booksReal dinosaur fans do in fact have an interest in scientific accuracy. I think ATC was referring to fanboys who only like movies with dinosaurs. I.E. the general public.
I hope that one day someone creates an awesome enough work with feathered dinosaurs to get them accepted into popular culture. The only issue is that dinosaurs, in terms of popularity, are going through a sort of a "dark age" right now.
A fistful of me.I was referring to five-year-olds and lieutenant general public.
People interested in dinosaurs generally care about scientific accuracy.
If you want any of my avatars, just Pm me I'd truly appreciate any avatar of a reptile sleeping in a Nice Hat Read Elmer Kelton booksWell, Hogfather (the TV-Film) tried with a razor-feathered, 'raptor-ish, nightmare-on-legs Scissor Man shown in glorious high octane. Gotta do it in baby-steps, don'tcha know?
edited 19th Apr '12 7:11:28 PM by Euodiachloris
Speaking of Jurassic Park... One of the JP spin-off games — specifically, The Lost World: Jurassic Park
— had an "easter egg" in the form of one item on the "victim census" list for Velociraptor being "Mollysaurus". Now, I know that is no such dinosaur by that name, but regardless of that, is the name "Mollysaurus" a correct name structure according to official international conventions for dinosaur naming? I mean, it's not unheard of
for dinosaurs to be
named after people
, but I can't find if there are any particular rules for "person's name + -saurus"-style constructions.
edited 5th Jun '12 4:05:24 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I know that they are not dinosaurs, strictly speaking; but I always found pterosaurs fascinating. They look just so different from birds in terms of balance, but apparently they flew excellently.
edited 9th Jun '12 7:01:09 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
I'm betting that behaviour-wise, they were much like seagulls. Just... um... because that's roughly the type of life they led.
Considering how brainy some birds can actually be, I do wonder if we don't often sell many dinosaurs and pterosaurs a bit short in that department. I'm not suggesting all were as bright as crows. But, we might be underestimating how many actually were.
edited 9th Jun '12 6:37:00 AM by Euodiachloris
Pterosaurs were probably a bit more diverse
than that. For instance, it is now thought that the azhdarchid pterosaurs (e.g.: Quetzalcoatlus) probably hunted on the ground like storks or ground hornbills.
My English teacher from high school thought that Archaeopteryx evolved from Velociraptor. It took The Other Wiki to convince him otherwise. I shouldn't complain, I guess it's better than thinking that pterosaurs are the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.
A fistful of me.Some people still argue that birds cannot have evolved from theropods, but from a much earlier split from the archosaur basal clades. Myself, I think they're just sore and are now grasping at straws (stealth pun intended
).

I rather like the idea that the Cretaceous could very well have been a living heavy metal album cover, even more then it already was.
http://io9.com/5900889/dinosaurs-were-surrounded-by-constant-fires