The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
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'd previous post to include info about hybrid species and other stuff.
A nice butterfly
Palaeontologists discover 250 million year old new species of reptile in Brazil
It is a cool crocodile like thing
Teyujagua provides new insights into how ecosystems on land recovered and developed following this extinction. After the extinction, ecosystems on land were sparsely populated, providing opportunities for some groups of survivors to expand in number and diversity. Archosauriforms and their close kin like Teyujagua became the dominant animals in ecosystems on land and eventually gave rise to dinosaurs.
Someone dug up this fossil of a thread! Hah! You see what I did there?
"Its anatomy is intermediate between the more primitive reptiles and a diverse and important group called ‘archosauriforms’. Archosauriformes include all the extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs, along with modern day birds and crocodiles."
So, not a proto-croc, but more a proto-archosaur. At only four and a half feet long, it was cute and cuddly.
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For a very specific definition of both "cute" and "cuddly". I suspect it'd quite happily try to take your arm off it you tried to hug it. 
That really would make life a lot easier, wouldn't it? ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
That's interesting.
Admit it, nothing beats Godzilla anyways. 
I think we should take some time and look back at Jurassic Park for it's contribution on how we see dinosaurs today. Sure, it has a lot of inaccuracies that daunt dino experts, but as people forget before the movie came out the old perception of dinosaurs saw them as lumbering, dumb lizard like creatures.
Jurassic Park is the Pirates of the Caribean for dinosaurs.
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You know, from my hazy memory of The Lost World (1912), Professor Challenger presents a series of dinosaur bones and his colleagues are like "is no dinosaur, is chicken." It's not until this decade that we know they are not mutually exclusive.
Where there's life, there's hope.
You are right about that. I would say when people think of dinosaurs in terms of live action movies, they think of Jurassic Park. In animation, it would be Land Before Time.
I would like to add that Jurassic Park this year is turning 25, while Land Before Time is turning 30 years old.
Well, dinosaur studies were still in it's infancy, so people wouldn't have known how related dinosaurs and birds were.
edited 7th Feb '18 4:28:48 PM by firewriter
Mweheheh
Thomas Huxley proposed a relationship between birds & dinosaurs even before then.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Older than You Think for that relationship.
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The relationship between them is one of the most fascinating things about both creatures.
Plus, it managed to link my both childhood fascinations, Dinosaurs and Birds
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Brenner's Wolves Fight Again
So many retcons in the biology textbooks!
On another note, has a second Carnotaurus been discovered? Does it also have wimpy arms?
Where there's life, there's hope.
I know there is a new theory about T-Rex having feathers, but it's not concrete if it's true. I think the only way they could sell it to the public if they depicted the T-Rex like this in Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus
edited 8th Feb '18 12:59:40 PM by firewriter
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I know that people have been arguing that T-Rex was a scavenger or hunter, but I think it could have been both. I mean when you look at modern animal behavior you can see they are opportunists who will hunt but also scavenge what they can.
Yeah, that is right.
edited 8th Feb '18 1:15:09 PM by firewriter
With dinosaurs having feathers, I've always found it odd that people say it makes them look considerably more dorky looking. To which I would respond "an elephant-sized cassowary is a terrifying concept".
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
Given how terrifying cassowaries are already, I have to agree. For anyone who knows about them, those guys define Feathered Fiend.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FeatheredFiend
Another thing I wonder is how T-Rexes raised their young. Some have said they just abandoned them when they hatched, while others think that they were good parents like in Jurassic Park.
edited 8th Feb '18 1:40:33 PM by firewriter
No one knows. There is some evidence of parenting behavior for some dinos, but not T Rex.
So, does anyone think that T-Rex was a good parent or not. I know there is no hard evidence, but it's good to do some speculation.
edited 8th Feb '18 1:58:25 PM by firewriter
Yes we do. That's why mules, ligers, etc. don't have formal Latin names.
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