>Game has dinosaurs with lips and feathersInstantly dropped.
>>729224686>Game has dinosaurs with lips and feathersAre there romance options?
what does a dinosaur taste like
>>729224686In awe at the size of this lad
dinokino games for this feel?
>>729224971If scientist were being truly honest the Trex would look like this.
>>729224928ark survival when you put them in pokeballs
>>729224686old school paleo art was is and will always be the king and it's not even closelook at this faggot here >>729224971 for example, he can't fathom anything but the extremes - either chicken rex or jurassic park raptors, can't even reason with such subhumans
feathered dinosaurs are cooler
>>729224894T Rex is a fucking monster.>Over 40 feet long>18 feet tall at the head>10-12 tonsCrazy how no mammalian carnivore that ever lived even comes close. Not even the biggest polar bear.
>>729224971Honestly I don't think T Rex had lips because it just doesn't make any sense. What even is the argument for lips anyways?
>>729225174Isn't that just what the Trex looked like, only the tail isn't sticking up like a birds?I mean look at birds, they don't naturally stand upright like that, but can if they want to. Why wouldn't Trex?
>>729224928https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5fkeWXu3eI
>>729225274Its skin is deliberately drawn to be monstrous and is nothing like what any living creature would have. The thing looks like a fucking plague victim. Old paleo art isn't not cool, it's just useless at depicting what dinosaurs would have looked like, because they were so often drawn as monsters first, animals second.
>>729224928>this single scene inspired ark survival "what if dinosaurs but mysterious high tech magic"
>>729225214You had to specify "carnivore" there because the blue whale absolutely dwarves the trex. It's not even close.It's a little disappointing to know the largest animal to ever exist on this planet exists today and it's just some pussy fish.
>>729224971Please show me the evidence that every dino had feathers if it wasn't some sort of ankylo or stego variant?>inb4 like 4 raptors (2 of them are the true ancestors of birds and small enough for an angry human to rip in half with their bare hands)
>>729225270Why wouldn't lips make sense? Wast majority of reptiles have lips. The lips are there to protect the teeth and keep them from drying up. Crocodilians are the only real exception to this and propably get away with it by living in already watery environments.
>>729224764Chicken.
>>729225174>>729225348>>729225274It's not really that bad. I wouldn't call it monstrous. Perhaps the torso, legs and tail could be less "rough" and it could use a bit more muscle but overall it's not bad.
>>729224686Are there any people more fat and bald than those who care about Dinosaurs and how they're portrayed?
>>729225586Its skin is bubbling brother
>>729224686That one has lips
>>729225545https://gprivate.com/6jfyl
>>729225564I don't see why the main argument for lips is that lizards have them, even though dinosaurs belong to a different family.Lizards like iguanas, salamanders, monitors etc belong to a family called lepidosaurs. Dinosaurs on the other hand belong to Archosaurs, which comprises of dinosaurs, modern day birds and crocodiles. So we should look to birds and crocs for reference instead of lizards. Birds don't really have any real teeth, so there's nothing to go off from there. Which leaves us with crocs and alligators, which don't have lips.
science wonpaleontology wonscalies lostspielberg lost
>>729225449Megasauropods must have been insane to see in real life. No land mammal comes close.
what do we think about these guys bros?
>>729224928Spore kinda. It has random events in creature stage where a ufo appears and abducts some creatures
>>729225729You missed the point and gave me a smug redditor response hoping I would prove myself wrong by finding evidence you couldn't provide.Why are you subhumans obsessed with absolutely everything having feathers?
>>729225759I read that they are basing the lips also on the impressions on the jawbones of the dinosaurs, as in there are apparently some sort of markings on the bones that hint at there having been muscle tissue attachement there that could be indications of lips.
>>729225759>Which leaves us with crocs and alligators, which don't have lips.As anon pointed out, they live in water. If they didn't, they'd have lips otherwise their mouths would dry out. Dry mouth = brittle teeth.
>>729225858Based zoo tycoon 2 gameplay but every update is an atomic bomb on your pc
>>729225889I gave you the response your bitching deserves. If you were actually curious about why paleontologists these days think that dinosaurs had feathers, you'd actually look into the subject yourself, but we both know that your only opposition to feathered dinosaurs basically stems from a culture war mindset where for some retarded reason, dinosaurs having feathers makes them lame and gay.
>>729224971>>729225129Say what you want about Jurassic Park, it's T. rex is definitely one of the better aged designs. The general anatomy and size is correct, and it was fairly bulky in the first movie. It just needs a couple of design tweaks (like the arms).Like, you can point to it and say "this is a T Rex", which you cannot do with their "velociraptors", dilophosaurus or spinosaurus
>>729225214And yet, it would starve in any mammalian dominated ecosystem because it would starve. Too slow
>>729225979They think (some) had feathers but reddit paleontologist wannabes have decided to run with the meme that everything did. Now you're devolving this into some political drama because you're fucking retarded.
>>729225932>>729225564You do realize that crocs and alligators aestivate, right? They spend long periods burrowed up in a dry environment. What then?Also, what about walruses, smilodons etc?
Why don't scaletrannies leave dinosaurs behind and take the pseudosuchia pill?
>>729226021>"velociraptors", dilophosaurusThe depiction of these was so far from the actual reality you wonder why they even bothered to pretend they're real dinosaurs. They could have just made up fake names.
>>729226054Couldn't T Rex run at a speed of like 25 mph? That's almost as fast as Usain Bolt. Imagine a 10 ton animal chasing you with the same speed as some of the fastest humans on earth.
>>729226101Actually the current consensus is that proto feathers were propably an ancestral trait to all dinosaurs. As in, even the earliest dinosaurs propably had at least some sort of coating of filaments on their body, that were further developed in proper feathers in the dinosaur lineages closest to birds and in others either disappeared or evolved into quills etc. The point being that dinosaurs propably never were fully "bald" at least not from the get go.
If you don't think pic related looks way cooler than the naked ballsack looking lizard then I don't know what to tell you niggas
>>729226156>You do realize that crocs and alligators aestivate, right? They spend long periods burrowed up in a dry environment. What then?The majority of their life is spent in water.>Also, what about walruses, smilodons etc?Tusk are not the same as teeth. They have minerals regular teeth don't have to make them stronger and more resilient.
>>729224686is it me or zoomer/gen A don't give a shit about dinosaurs?
>>729226324It looks rather stupid desu>>729226283Didn't they decide at some point that it would have broken it's legs if it tried to run?
>>729226423No good dino media for their generation would be my guess. I was born in 93 and walking with dinosaurs oneshotted me into a life long fan of dinosaurs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9qCA91NqA
>>729224686You will never play a dinosaur game again scalefag
>>729226423From what I've heard kids love the new Jurassic World movies because kids still love dinosaurs.It's probably not as special for them as it was for older people because there's so many movies with CG dinosaurs these days.
>>729226364Crocs aestivate for several months, sometimes even up to a year. Also smilodon teeth were in fact teeth.Like my man, pic related is what a T Rex looks like with its mouth closed. How would lips even fit into this? It'd end up biting through it.
>>729226423>old dinos are outdated>new dinos are silly
>>729226551Here's a real skull instead of an inaccurate drawing of one.
>>729226423>>729226512What are you talking about? Paleo youtube shorts are extremely popular. Though I swear the comments section is full of actual children. Most of the discussion is about "T Rex would destroy your dinosaur" "Nuh uh my Giga would destroy yours."
Oh uh….real life dinosaur just passing through. Don’t mind him.
>>729226674>Most of the discussion is about "T Rex would destroy your dinosaur" "Nuh uh my Giga would destroy yours."As it was before. All is right in the worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwRvkjNJQ0
reminder that bird chads won
Dinosaurs were never real, they were invented to sell toys
>>729226816Birds are in fact, important
>>729226816Birds wish they were as cool as their real ancestors.
>>729226423They had no retrosaur media so they just know dinosaurs as animals and not cool monsters.
>>729226423
>>729226660The mouth isn't fully closed
>>729226674>>729226785I don't mind it. If anything, I prefer that over those annoying reddit pseud paleonerds who think any depiction of dinosaurs that isn't them rolling on their belly is "awesombro fantasy"
Reminder that 90% of the dinosaurs you see on tv never really existed, and the jew scientists are just making whole species up based on couple toe bones
>>729226959That's as closed as it could get without stabbing itself in the mouth. Good thing it had lips to create a seal.
>>729224928did littlefoot meet aliens??? i don't remember this part
Here's a REAL dinosaur for you all to look at.
>>729226324It looks scary so you're kinda right
god i wish that were me
>>729227086There's like 14 movies in the series, did you watch all of them?
>>729227084why would it need a seal
>>729226321Doesnt that go against the patches of skin imprint we found of trex that has zero feathers?
>>729226908>flat cartilaginous sternum, no support for wing muscles resulting in weak ass sissy flaps>bony jaw and teeth shifting center of mass too far forward for agile mid-air turns>couldn't turn sharply mid-air anyway because of the oversized stiff tail>stupid ass claws for climbing as if it can't even fly where it wants to go, planning for failure on an evolutionary scaleYeah like an f-16 wishes it was a wright flyer maybe
>>729224686>OP do not accept scienceInstantly ignored.
>>729226725holy shit... a cassowarasarus
>>729227213Always trust the science.
>>729227183Modern rhinos and elephants don't have much hair either. That doesn't mean their ancestors or extinct relatives didn't have full hair cover.
>>729227170To keep its teeth moist. If they dry out they become very brittle and break very easily.
>>729227229Alan
>>729227198Still looks infinitely cooler and more threatening than any bird, except vultures.
>>729227084Uh huh
>>729226928>>729226996>Ehehehehehe>Hahahahaha
>>729227213I am just skeptical, that's all
>>729227298I was reading an article the other day about how these animals are starting to become so dependent on being fed scraps by humans scientist think they may not survive without humans anymore.
>>729227347The lower jaw has slipped out of position.
>>729226908I hate how they made Archeopteryx into this generic looking bird
>>729227347>posts crushed and flattened skull
>>729224686T-Rex had lips, confirmed. Didn't had feathers at least not adult ones. He was also chubby and had hands pointed to each other. This picture is pretty accurate.
>>729227445
>>729227390Your skepticism isn't well researched and comes off as contrarian and nostalgic over childhood memories.
>>729227463worry not anon, that artist is just a quintessential brainrotted featherfagit makes me sad thought everytime i see xer god-awful art when i look up permian era creatures
>>729227518That's fake.For someone who seems to insist on using crocodiles as a source for how the trex jaw worked you should know crocodiles do not have overbites. Their teeth interlock. The same is true for the trex. But the trex had lips because it didn't live in water.
>>729227571>fucking archeopteryx didn't have feathers!!!Scalies are getting out of control
>>729227679Did landwelling crocodilomorpha have lips? Not that anon, just thinking.
>>729227558I admit that Jurassic Park is a core childhood memory of mine (that scene where the rex roars while the banner falls having been seared into my brain as a 6 year old).But that's not why I'm against lips. If it were, then I'd trying to prove that dinosaurs could roar like a tiger too.
>>729227463>You see this really ancient ancestor of modern birds was actually... JUST A BIRD (that couldn't fly)!You could make a picture of a human vs a human in a bigfoot costume standing side by side and it would make more sense.>>729227721Are you baiting or extremely stupid with extreme bias?
>>729224928>>729225325Yeah, I immediately thought of Spore.
>>729227792Archeopteryx wasn't an ancestor to modern birds, retard. It's another branch from the same tree.
>>729227758>It is likely that many extinct, land-dwelling crocodylomorphs had lizard-like lips, unlike modern semi-aquatic crocodilians. The presence or absence of lips in extinct archosaurs is a subject of ongoing scientific debate, but evidence suggests a link between a fully terrestrial lifestyle and the presence of lips to protect teeth from drying out
>here's your proto-crocodile
>>729225858Is there any gameplay to this game yet?
>>729227859Nitpicking is not an argument. There was no statement anywhere that said it didn't have feathers.
>>729227721no anon i'm just saying that nix is a fucking retard that's not to be trusted at all
>>729227679Crocs don't have an overbite, but alligators do.
>>729227237there were no scientists in paleontologie for like 200 years. It was just millionaires fanfictions
>>729227942Ah, so "featherfag" doesn't mean anything then, scalie-retard?
>>729226423>>729226928It's unreal how out of touch you uncs are with zoomers. You all think we are a different species.
>>729227921anon, it's a frontier-like sandbox game, nobody actually plays that for the gameplay
>>729228031Their teeth still interlock though. The lower set doesn't completely tuck away behind the upper set which is how liars and frauds try to depict the trex jaw as being.
>>729225858I bastly prefer Ark's depiction of the relevant dinos. As far as I can tell that's pretty much a completely fictitious interpretation of Compy by incorrectly exaggerating and applying traits of related species despite evidence not supporting it.
>>729226207qrd on the less authentic interpretations of dinosaurs?
>>729228037>fanfictionI mean... you can say that about almost all dinosaurs. Except for that one ankylosaur thingy which we know exactly how it looked like because it got mummified.
>>729226423all boys love dinosaurs it is simply so
>>729225129No lol
>>729228179Okay so what's your point here? Did T Rex's teeth interlock too?
>>729226857Wong.They were too big to fit in the Ark.
>>729225274>but can if they want toBirds lack substantial tails, so there's nothing in the way when they straighten out, unlike a classic dino who's got this massive bot-that-flexible stick poking our their ass
>>729225129PIMPED OUT
>>729228219The "velociraptor" is closer to a deinonychus but they made them much bigger than they actually are. The dilophosaurus is not a dog sized dinosaur. It's about 2 metres tall. There's no evidence of any frill and certainly no evidence it spat venom.
>>729228041so you're baiting
Honestly, what I hate more than feathers or lips is this weird "slouch" modern paleoartists give theropods. See the top pic? Notice that hunchback it has? I hate it because it makes the animal look smaller than it actually is.Can't believe Jurassic Park (bottom pic) gives dinosaurs a better posture.
>>729226021I don't like how recessed it's eyes are.
>>729228380*not-that
>>729228535they aren't frozen in that pose forever sillyit's a living animal, it would be constantly moving
>>729228298>Did T Rex's teeth interlock too?Of course they did.The only time you find non-interlocking teeth is specialized teeth, e.g. fangs, tusk, etc., and a small number of fish species.
>>729224928Dino Run
>>729228219>>729228507The real deinonychus was 5 feet tall and weighed 170 lbs and had feathers while the JP raptors are more than 6 feet tall and weigh over 300 lbs. The reason for the lack of feathers is because CGI couldn't animate it well at the time, and the size was amped up because Spielberg wanted bigger dinos.I heard the reason for the dilophosaurus' frill and its venom was to show how dinosaurs can have characteristics that couldn't be preserved in fossil material. Technically, there is no evidence that dilophosaurus didn't have a frill. Venom is a more complicated issue though.
>>729225129hahahaha I can't take this seriously
>>729228672If you look up "T Rex mouth closed" most of the images will show some kind of overbite.
>>729228717Awesome game. Wish it was longer though.
Daily reminder
>>729224686The Isle had it's biggest update of all time yesterday so I've just been growing and playing Maiasaura, made a nest but raptors got it
>>729228841A slight overbite akin to an alligator would be one thing but the completely tuck the lower jaw behind the upper jaw which is obvious nonsense.I have no idea why there is a grand conspiracy to depict the trex's jaw inaccurately but there is one.
>>729228196compy just needed less feathering and a less drab coloring and it would've been better
>>729228642Yeah what I mean is it's annoying how they portray that slouch as a neutral posture. This is how a T. rex should be drawn, maybe with the head reared high.
>>729228892Dinosaurs are not a "hobby" retard. They were real animals and don't have to fit what you thought they looked like when you were 10.
>>729228892I still enjoy my hobbies lol it’ll bring me joy when that tranny predictably kills its demonic self
>>729228907I wish I didn't suck at this game. Just died to a fucking boar. Beats starving to death which is what usually happens to me.
>>729228882Multiplayer gave it so much replayability back when the servers were populated. Such a shame it's dead.
>>729226207>>729226021I saw jp3 recently and they go out of their way to mention how spino is a straight up more of a frankenstein monster than dinosaur. It's funny how the newest movie seems to feature more realistic designs but is overall more of a shitshow somehow.
>>729228998That's not the point you nig, it's about trannies getting positioned inside paleontologist jobs nowadays. They ruin everything they touch.
>>729228892>tr@niis are putting feathers in me dinos
>>729227086Pretty sure that's from the 7th movie
>>729228937You still haven't addressed the fact that crocodiles aestivate. If an animal can go 7 months in a dry environment while keeping its teeth, then the idea that water keeps them from losing their teeth is a moot point. Not to mention crocodiles and alligators spend most of their time on land..
>>729229091There really are an odd number of trannies in paleontology for some reason. Wouldn't matter if they didn't do stuff like this
>>729229230>You still haven't addressed the fact that crocodiles aestivate.They bury themselves in mud. They may as well still be in water.You act like there's some sort of debate here. It's just an objective fact that because crocodiles don't have lips they can't keep their mouths moist themselves and so need external sources of moisture to keep the mouths moist otherwise their teeth would become very brittle.>Not to mention crocodiles and alligators spend most of their time on land..No they do not. They spent the vast majority of the time in water.
>>729228907>>729229038Is it good now? Tried it like 4 years ago and it was very rough.
>>729229090They were trying too hard to sell Spino as this new big dino even though it was a relatively unknown taxon at the time with incomplete info.I find it funny how the backlash to it killing the Rex was so intense that they're practically trying to memoryhole it. They even changed the logo.
>>729228907Mech form change>>729229038Least the animal and fish spawns actually work for a landmark patch, shit was broken for a fucking month on the hordetest
>>729229531I have trouble properly recommending it because there's stuff in it that pisses me off but I still play it, got like 600 hours or so. Here's the latest patch showcase if you're interested in browsing stuff on it thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1dMET5Nv8Q
>>729229462I'll get back to the crocodile point after looking up a certain source, but another thing I'd like to bring up is that lips evolved in mammals for the purpose of suckling. I don't think theropod dinosaurs breastfed their young.
>>729229885>but another thing I'd like to bring up is that lips evolved in mammals for the purpose of sucklingNot true.You do know reptiles have lips, right? It is actually considered extremely likely dinosaurs had lips by most of my colleagues.
>>729229885>scientists say mammals evolved lips for the purpose of sucking>despite this my penis remains unsuckedScientists are hacks. Literally just making shit up.
>>729226423nigger i am a zoomer from 98 and i was obsessed with dinosaurs for decades
>>729226021it's too skinny though, especially around the neck, T. Rex was heavily muscledand course JP T. Rex suffers from being Horner'd, I'd love to get a take on it that actually uses it's high intelligence and acute senses properlylike say they're watching a T. Rex through binoculars, zoom in just enough to see it stare back at them, freak out for a moment, stop looking, maybe biologist freaking out a bit harder than the rest knowing the T. Rex is hunting them, they look back and now the T. Rex is goneIt's a 12m long apex predator and somehow they lost sight of it, it's hunting them and now panic mode is 100% justified
>>729230025Reptiles have lips because most of them have a relatively weak bite force. T Rex had a potential bite force of up to 70,000 newtons. And do keep in mind that these animals fought each other by biting each others' faces. Any lips it had would get obliterated by that kind of bite force. This would lead to infection, which would lead to death. Lips would be a liability.I do concede that the comparison with reptiles makes a good argument for other theropods having lips (like allosaurus), but not T Rex.
>>729230576except we have zero evidence what so ever that T. Rex actively fought it's own kind in any capacityalso you don't need any kind of bite force to lacerate lips, T. Rex biteforce was that high to shatter bone And plenty of large mammals with nasty bites fight each other all the time
>>729224686for me it was pre dino Dimetrodon
>>729229358It's not odd, autistic males and dinosaurs are a classic marriage
lips?
>>729231062These guys help keep your house cool after you tame them using their spines. I love mine, iv never needed an AC unit
>>729230923>T. Rex actively fought it's own kind in any capacityLolwut? It's probably the most documented aspect of the dino. Many of its fossils have facial scarrings inflicted upon it by other members of its species.>you don't need any kind of bite force to lacerate lipsYou don't but there is a degree. There are animals that could survive having a couple of cuts inflicted upon their lips. An animal with Rex's bite force cannot.>And plenty of large mammals with nasty bites fight each other all the timeMammals have stretchy lips, the kind which are not found in any bird or reptile. Also, mammals need lips for suckling. A Tyrannosaurus Rex probably didn't need to suckle.>>729230025>Not true?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip> Mammal lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. suckling and gulping)
>>729228892Kek trannies like this hate life more than any incel could
>>729231236>> Mammal lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. suckling and gulping)That is not the primary purpose of lips. The primary purpose was keep the mouth sealed and moist. Those are secondary uses that came along after we got lips.You may as well be claiming all mammals have lips so they can talk.
>>729231707It's not the primary purpose, but it is a pretty big purpose. Also, regarding the part about keeping its teeth moist. T Rex (and Tarbosaurus) secreted a lot of saliva. This could keep its enamel moist in a dry environment.
>>729232064that's a big waste of bodily fluids
>>729232064>It's not the primary purpose, but it is a pretty big purpose.No, it's literally the primary purpose. It's why things that don't suckle and swallow whole also have lips. Basically, if you don't live in water and aren't an invertebrate or have a beak you almost certainly have lips.>regarding the part about keeping its teeth moist. T Rex (and Tarbosaurus) secreted a lot of salivaThis is just made up.
>>729228907Shame trikes / diablo's are obnoxious as fuck. I doubt the Allo / Rex update will change much. Also doesn't help that mix packing on official servers is rampant and nothing can be done about it.
>>729232235Nope>Judging from its size, Tarbosaurus hadwell-pronounced transversal striated muscles of the pharynx, larynx, epiglottis, and salivary glands. https://dinoweb.ucoz.ru/_fr/0/A_new_study_of_.pdf>In non-avian theropods,high dental replacement rates (D’Emic et al., 2019)and the size of the foramen for the glossopharyngeal nerve (IX) in Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus,which is linked to salivary secretion, both suggest that teeth werequickly replaced and saliva was produced abundantly enough so that the enamel of the teeth could have withstood a dry environment. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1178.pdf
>>729232562You're citing a bunch of hacks who are perpetrating the myth the trex had no lips and an enormous overbite and are now just making up crap to try to cover for the obvious flaw in their "hypothesis".
>>729225858tiktaalik...my fuarking hero...
>>729229852I'll give it a go, worst case scenario I can always refund.Do they still plan to add tribals and other humans?
>>729232740yeah, and given their update speed i expect it to come out before the turn of the next century!
>>729229038Make sure you use theislemaps, gamma abusers are the worst part of the game honestly outside of mixpackers.
>>729225129no
>>729225449whale ain't a fish, retard
>>729232885Sure, buddy. Just like tomatoes are a fruit.
>>729226321You need to learn how evolutionary tree works. Different genus will have different traits, over the millions of year reign of the dinosaurs lots came and went. A t rex would likely not have feathers, it would be an extreme genus that outgrew its feathers physically and kept warm with calories. Smaller, earlier, or certain genus will have more feathers. Same with long necks, no need for feathers, and with that amount of body surface, growing and maintaining feathers would require so much energy for no reason
>>729229531>>729229852>>729232740>>729232802How's Path of Titans if any of you anons played it? Seems to have a lot of content, but also seems a lot more simplified and gamey.
>>729232637Listen, looks like we're not gonna agree on this topic, but one last point I'd like to add is keratin. T Rex had a keratinous face. The only animals with keratinous faces are crocodiles (no lips) and pangolins (no teeth). And no, horns don't count since the rest of the face doesn't have keratin.Idk man, I'm not saying for sure that T Rex didn't have lips. I just think lipless should be considered the default assumption.>Dinosaurs belong to the only family (archosaurs) whose members don't have lips.>T rex had an extremely strong bite force. The animal that currently has the strongest bite force is also a reptile that lacks lips.
>>729233125You've made a critical mistake about how evolution works. You've assumed there's some sort of sense and aim for efficiency to the mechanism. There is not. This is why so many animals are so fucking stupid. It just has to work well enough for the species to survive. Nothing more.
>>729229358THEYRE TURNING THE DINOSAURS GAY
>>729233290No, energy efficiency is usually one of the first traits to fall because it correlates with long term survival. So feathers were dropped in larger dinos, sorry
>>729232820>theislemapsIs it up-to-date on where to find food?
>>729233427It's not the most up to date but it'll guide you to water you can drink and keep you from getting lost. Food spawns typically when more things are around.
>>729233385No. There's lot of animals that expend enormous amounts of energy unnecessarily. There are also lots of animals that are incredibly conservative with energy expenditure, e.g. sloths and pandas, and these animals are so fucking useless they can barely survive. If energy efficiency mattered that much we'd all be really small animals that barely ever need to eat.
>>729233324Kek>Dinosaurs are reptiles like frogsGuess turning reptilians gay is a recurring theme
>>729232841>Science should never change its assumptions when it hurts my feefees
>>729233548A lion is still very energy effecient, its a specialised piece of biology
>>729233125>>729233385Wait, if feathers were less likely on larger dinosaurs because it would be too warm and energy consuming, is it possible that larger dromeosaurs (like Utahraptor) were Jurassic Park raptor style scaly, since they were larger than polar bears while living in an environment that's the exact opposite of the North Pole.
>>729233623No. You're wrong. Mammals actually eat a lot more than other animals specifically because they waste enormous amounts of energy in heat. We generate far more heat than is needed to keep us warm. Far, far more. We're incredibly energy inefficient. That hasn't stopped use from prevailing over non-mammals that are much more energy efficient at all.
>game has PRÖÖÖÖÖÖÖH
>>729226950
>devs add spikes out of nowhere to signify the species is "older" and more "primal" even though the original apparently newer lineage had enough spikes as is
>>729226423It's you. Kids love dinosaurs.
>>729234327You'll be redpilled on how true this is if you search "Dinosaurs" or "T Rex" on youtube. 80% of the results are nursery rhymes for kids or elementary school edutainment. Dinosaurs are mainly associated with kids.
>>729232841>Elden Ring scartlet rot t-rex
>>729226021Other than it's lack of binocular vision, and the colouring, yeah, it's look is pretty good.
>>729226021>>729226207>>729230357>>729228747You should read the story behind all the stuff that went into making the Rex. Spielberg and Winston had this weird autism where one moment they'd be like>These dinosaurs need to be as paleoaccurate as possibleAnd the next moment they'd be like>Noooo this is not intimidating enough! Make it scarier!!https://dinosaursscifi.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/the-design-process-of-jurassic-parks-t-rex/https://youtu.be/0RWje-EaVhc?si=nyskO8ugt2wBOjgQ&t=243
>>729226054>starvemammalian brains even carnivores make calcuated risk when engaging prey. Dinosaurs being protobirds see something and they take it, what I'm getting at is humans would be open season and theres quite a lot of them to thin out.
>>729224686>lipsw-why would they do that?
>>729236684If we ever bring back dinosaurs, we should let them loose in India
>>729227397Thats sad
>>729227086Yeah they were aliens who spend the entire movie giving mysterious tidbits of wisdom and appearing everywhere the main characters are. At the end they get beamed back up and go back to whatever world they came from.
>>729225348>deliberately drawn to be monstrous and is nothing like what any living creature would have
>>729228892get ragebaited, I guess? this reads like 70% of the posts on this site.
>>729227086Nothing after the first movie matters. Its all trash
>>729226423results of successful demoralization campaign to deprives young boys of heroes
>>729227086>>729227165>>729229161>>729239883>14 moviesWhat the fuck? I thought there were only two. The first one and the one with that chomper character.
>>729226423Dinosaurs inherently cool to kids and are pretty much the only reason Jurassic park still exists as a franchise. It’s just that there hasn’t been much good Dino media lately outside of maybe edutainment documentaries or autists online debating which Dino is the strongest
>>729240190There were yearly releases up until 2007 when they also got a shortlived TV series. Cartoon Network would play them occasionally.
Mfw our earliest ancestors looked like thisGrim
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>>729227101Snoot Game anf Wani are probably the only dinosaur media I've given a shit about in the past decade and a half. Made me want a cute dino gf.
>>729240761We wuz rats?
>>729224686They had both. Stay mad.
>>729240761That ain't the fish nigga that crawled out of the sea
>>729227463HOLY SHIT, IT'S THIS POKEMON!
>>729227101No way...
>>729225129the t-rex would not have had feathers that extensively, they more likely had feathers in the same way an elephant has hair; sparse and spread out over a wide areaanimals that big have issues with retaining too much heat (the t-rex had to be warm-blooded at its size) and a heavy coating of feathers would have made it prone to overheatingthe juveniles were probably fuzzy though
>>729240761>the furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten
>>729227234Is it... inviting me?
more dinos eating stuff pics pls!
>>729233925>De-extinction never ever
>>729242202Would that apply to large dromeosaurs like Utahraptor too?>>729233787
I just finished the book last week and started reading Lost World, it's really fun and better than the movie. I also downloaded Primitive War novels, got any dino books recommendations? I don't mind feathered dinos because I'm not a man child who hate science for some reason
>>729242950I heard dinotopia is pretty good
>>729226321>ACKSHUALLYSHUT UP BITCH
>the people arguing for feathered dinosaurs (NO MUH REALISMS) are using the same bullshit arguments against bikini armor ( WOMEN NEED MORE ARMOR MUH REALISMS) >>729225348>it's just useless at depicting what dinosaurs would have looked like, because they were so often drawn as monsters first, animals second.Motherfucker it's a 20 foot tall multi-ton bullet proof death machine. It's going to be monstrous by default, no matter how many feathers you stick on the bitch. Just keep sipping the syrup and going with the ever changing narrative, feathercuck.
>>7292398832nd movie is legitimately just as good
>>729244074>he's comparing a real living creature in its own environment with its own adaptations to fantasy elf boivob armor chuds are fucking retarded lmao
>>729224686>we don't want to release on pc because of nude mods>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abl00j1EHvU
>>729240512>There were yearly releases up until 2007
>>729243261>minbroken
>>729228882It's getting a sequel soon
>>729224928I forgot all about Land Before Time.
>>729224686God I wish that were me.
