This is a Jurassic park ankylosaurus. It is cool, and eats plants. Did you know that the ankylosaurus ate fern?
>>82458120>Did you know that the ankylosaurus ate fern?In general, yes - but do you know which ankylosaurus ate which fern?
>>82458120I don't believe in "dinosaurs" even remotely, but it's a cool alternate universe/fantasy setting invented by imaginative "scientists" I guess.
>>82458120Yeah. I learn about dinosaurs because my son likes them and I wanna be a ble to talk about things he likes with him. God knows his cunt mother doesn't watch him
>>82458136What about the bones then
>>82458120Dinosaurs are cool. Is Ankylosaurus your favorite anon?
>>82458120Did you know that dinos likely didn't look like this at all?
>>82458434Didn't they find a well preserved fossil of ops Dino? So you're wrong
>>82458434Is there any proof of this claim? Or just making shit up?
>>82458446Oh really? Where can I see it?>>82458463The representations of dinos we have are just extrapolations on the fossils found. Did you think scientists used a time machine to see dinos how they looked back then? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dinosaurs-art-paleoartists-mistakes
>>82458493Obviously, things like skin, feathers, eyes, etc arent going to be preserved like bones. But theres a huge difference between those details being speculative than being completely wrong like your image shows
As a kid I feel like dinosaurs were almost portrayed as a fighting game roster. T-Rex is the main character and strong all around. Ankylosaurus has that club tail for crazy sweeps. Pacycephalsaurus is the head butt specialist. Deinonychus for sick claws, velociraptor for the speed demon.
>>82458493https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/Heres a great example that shows we cant be so far off on some interpretations, and theres more like this
>>82458501I'm not sure if your reading comprehension sucks or you're arguing in bad faith, anon. As indicated under the image, if we knew nothing about elephants, zebras, and rhinos and only had some skeletons to work with and extrapolated upon them the way we do with dinos, that's the kind of artist representations we would have of them. Bones don't give you enough information to derive the actual external appearance of an animal. >>82458515That is really cool, I didn't know that. Is that the only actually preserved dino they found?
>>82458543>Bones don't give you enough information to derive the actual external appearance of an animal.You're right, but a) we have more than bones and b) thats an artists interpretation, not a rigorous criticism of the methodology used in paleontology>Is that the only actually preserved dino they found?To that degree I think so, its good confirmation that we arent completely wrong with at least some dinos, like OPs. That one wasnt discovered that long ago so hopefully we find more like it. Theres others where at least parts of soft tissue are well preserved. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ornithischian-dinosaurs/dinosaur-mummyhttps://www.sci.news/paleontology/psittacosaurus-countershading-camouflage-04197.htmlhttps://nhm.org/stories/tiny-dinosaur-and-big-discovery
Flowering plants didn't diversify until after the Cretaceous, which means that they didnt eat grass or fruits but instead would eat gymnosperms and ferns.
>>82458120>finally a good post The Ankylosaurus is my favorite dinosaur and they are very cute when they're small! They went extinct because the females would only sleep with chad
>>82458493I think that just as your opponents have taken things too far in one direction, and it's easy to talk shit about them going too far in one direction, that you've also went too far, but in the other direction. And that makes you an NPC
