What's your favorite dinosaur?

[Mozini]

Or prehistoric animal? Erm I know it's kind of off-topic but answers would be great.

[Ulfrinn]

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Velociraptors were just the size of a turkey though.

https://youtu.be/WgQe68kF_8M?si=ifSMwRfSuNGepiRH

...and I'm on team raptor :hp_nikki:

You know that's a movie right? Dilophosaurs also weren't 3 feet tall and spit venom or had frills.

[Ulfrinn]

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Velociraptors were just the size of a turkey though.

HAHA! Seriously? Well, you're a person I'll listen to. Checking... You're right. 31-43 lb.

The media portrayed them differently. F#ckin' media.

Intentionally so. They also knew before Jurassic Park was made that raptors were completely covered in feathers, but chose to still portray them as scaly because, according to them, they thought they'd be scarier being scaly. IMO, if they couldn't make something with feathers scary, they lacked any creativity anyway.

[kbiz]

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HAHA! Seriously? Well, you're a person I'll listen to. Checking... You're right. 31-43 lb.

The media portrayed them differently. F#ckin' media.

Intentionally so. They also knew before Jurassic Park was made that raptors were completely covered in feathers, but chose to still portray them as scaly because, according to them, they thought they'd be scarier being scaly. IMO, if they couldn't make something with feathers scary, they lacked any creativity anyway.

Interesting. Now I'm reading about them. They didn't even make it to the K-T Boundary extinction event 65 million years ago! They died out 6 million years beforehand.

Thanks, Ulfrinn, for correcting the image of velociraptors in my mind. I guess you gotta verify everything if you want the truth.

[Ulfrinn]

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Intentionally so. They also knew before Jurassic Park was made that raptors were completely covered in feathers, but chose to still portray them as scaly because, according to them, they thought they'd be scarier being scaly. IMO, if they couldn't make something with feathers scary, they lacked any creativity anyway.

Interesting. Now I'm reading about them. They didn't even make it to the K-T Boundary extinction event 65 million years ago! They died out 6 million years beforehand.

Thanks, Ulfrinn, for correcting the image of velociraptors in my mind. I guess you gotta verify everything if you want the truth.

There were some large raptors, like Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor. They weren't the thin, speedy ones though, Utahraptor was a slower, heavier ambush predator. The one in the movies are basically scaled up Deinonychus.

[Lunar Fang]

Megaraptor

[Bernard The Gurnard]

Dino from the Flintstones.

[Basho]

anomalocaris, for obvious reasons.

[kbiz]

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Interesting. Now I'm reading about them. They didn't even make it to the K-T Boundary extinction event 65 million years ago! They died out 6 million years beforehand.

Thanks, Ulfrinn, for correcting the image of velociraptors in my mind. I guess you gotta verify everything if you want the truth.

There were some large raptors, like Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor. They weren't the thin, speedy ones though, Utahraptor was a slower, heavier ambush predator. The one in the movies are basically scaled up Deinonychus.

Interesting. You know your dinosaurs. I stupidly let the media tell me.

What's interesting to me is an asteroid had to hit Earth to usher in the rise of mammals - and us. Life is a random walk through time. At least until life becomes self-aware.

[Mozini]

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anomalocaris, for obvious reasons.

anomalocaris mentioned!
also everyone else's is great too!

[Katarina ♡]

Dino Nuggets? ^_^

[Pocahawtness]

Ankyloaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon, and of course the mighty Tyrannosaurus.

[Bernard The Gurnard]

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Dino Nuggets? ^_^

I think they were pretty small. After all he was a baby...

[✨Saint✨]

I was always fascinated by the Pterodactyl, flying in the Mezoic Era must have been awesome.

[Nekoborg]

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What's your favorite dinosaur?

Or prehistoric animal? Erm I know it's kind of off-topic but answers would be great.

A dinosaur species called Yilanè which have been speculated to be the most intelligent type of dinosaur.

Such dinosaurs have been the basis of the Silurian Hypothesis. How long would nature require to erode away all traces of a civilisation? The oldest and most durable structures humans have built; the pyramids have shown signs of erosion and might not last the time needed for nature to evolve the next animal capable of building a civilisation if humans became extinct.

[Ulfrinn]

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There were some large raptors, like Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor. They weren't the thin, speedy ones though, Utahraptor was a slower, heavier ambush predator. The one in the movies are basically scaled up Deinonychus.

Interesting. You know your dinosaurs. I stupidly let the media tell me.

What's interesting to me is an asteroid had to hit Earth to usher in the rise of mammals - and us. Life is a random walk through time. At least until life becomes self-aware.

You should see what happened when that meteor actually hit. Some thing it hit, and then non avian dinosaurs struggled for a while, and took years to die off, but it didn't go down that way. After it hit, dinosaurs would have seen a wall of flames coming at them. Within hours every forest on Earth was in flames. Air temperatures were hot enough to burn animals to death. It would have looked like a hellscape for anything that could stay alive long enough to see it unfold. Pretty much everything that died was dead in a few hours.

What did survive after the impact would have had an entire year of pure darkness as no sunlight would have reached the surface. The lack of sunlight would have wiped out most phytoplankton, collapsing nearly the entire aquatic food chain as large marine animals starved to death in darkness. Maybe the land animals which died out pretty much instantaneously were the lucky ones.