which skin are you picking for the upcoming expansion?
>>740949769why do they keep doing spino so badly with these movies?the first iteration was fine, it still swam finethis isn't even like minor cosmetics like the velociraptors over the years, they've outright scrapped and redesigned itfucking hate this shitI'd already dropped these movies but that's outrageous to me and my life is lesser for now knowing it, thanksit's as egregious as a future designer saying "hey the dilophosaur didn't really spit or have frill" and turning it into a completely different character because it fit *their* movie betterhate ithate ithate it
>>740950268What Spinosaurus looked like is one of the most hotly debated issues in Palentology currently. You don't know either.
what's even the point of the hunchback
>>740950567Like imagine you've got a huge flat bodypart. If you turn towards the sun you cool down, and if you turn sideways the sun hits that entire thing and warms you up. If it's cold and you turn towards the wind it retains heat and vice versa.
>>740950567"There is no point" on it, same as chicken have those thing in their heads, or some dogs have extra long ears
The goat of course. The expansion is looking very promising btw. I've been looking forward to the movie monstrosities since release and I'm glad they are finally here.
Jurassic Park 3 spino is the best one.>b-but it's not scientifically accurate I don't care, science is gay. Jurassic Park 3 spino looks bad ass and that's what matters.
>>740949769On one hand, it's nice to have a more paleo accurate Spinosaurus in JWE, the other hand the design itself is a bit ugly. JP3 Spino while obviously outdated these days was a fantastic take on what we knew back then. You compare the Rebirth version to like say, Prehistoric Kingdom's version and the latter easily mogs it.
>>740949769Buy an ad
>Ruins the coolest thing that has ever existed on this earth
>>740951018Camelsaurus
>>740950459>What Spinosaurus looked like is one of the most hotly debated issues in Palentology currently.it hurts my autism in a "retcon'd canon" kind of way as it pertains to jurassic park lore herebeing that they're not the *actual* animals but frog hybrids, right?I would be okay with a redesign if it kept the original form and shape, same as the JP3 raptors, which were finethis I didn't currently know, and that's funny, I'm glad you told menot quite my point but stillI remember the original The Lost World action figure for the Spinosaurus looked like this lmfao
>>740950459gonna be so embarassing when they realise that spinosaurus doesn't exist and they actually mixed up the bones from a Deinosuchus and a Ouranosaurus lmfao
>>740951037Scientific accuracy is important. But not for Jurassic Park/World. The dinosaurs in that are all made mostly from frog, lizard, and bird DNA. They are meant to be weird chimeras, not actual dinosaurs. I think too many "fans" have forgotten or misunderstood that.
>>740951331Even the new directors misunderstood that, the new movie are such travesties. They actually went with "we made 100% REAL dinosaurs" in them.
>>740950268Every discovery about the Spinosaurus makes it even lamer. Can't run from it, science says it was a fat, lame crocodile.We were lucky that its fossil was destroyed in war, spinobros.
>>740951442True. The people making them stopped being faithful to it pretty quickly also.
>>740951190Lawful good elasmosaurus
>>740951442I don't watch movies. but I do play Monster Hunter, which gradually introduced more modernized interpretations of dinosaurs based on current research. Looks fine to me.
>>740950459How do they even think to explain the distinct change to its spine shape here? It was rounded for decades. Now suddenly it's more like a M shape.
>>740951620>What does this thing we have no idea what it looked like look like?
>>740951508oh right, aegypticus egyptthe warthis is all coming back to me nowI remember the JP3 hype like "we've discovered new bones which indicate spinosaurus was EVEN bigger than we thought so we incorporated into the movie!"now look at where we area big gay alligator with a hunchbackfucksake
>>740951716>My ancestor
>>740951716How come there's never been a horror movie about this thing?
All I want is another game with dinosaurs and shootan at the same time. Where is my Turok spiritual successor or sequel?
>Look up my favorite dinosaur from my old dinosaur fact books>It never existed, it was completely made upWhat the FUCK
>>740949769no feathers no buy!
>>740951508>>740951752>fat lame crocodile>big gay alligatorYou faggots wish. It was just a massive elephant seal.
>>740951892The new Tomb Raider looks kinda alright.
>>740952038I'm wary of TR games since their on rails reboot shit. But maybe they got her back on track.
>>740951923>Look at this cool dinosaur we discovered>Fossil remains are a bit of the skull and a femurPaleontology has a lot more guessing than a common person would be comfortable with.
>>740951716
why do spinofags keep believing it could actually fight a T. Rex one on one?it's obviously a fish eater
>>740952236And the t-rex was a scavenger. Fighting dinosaurs is very dangerous, there's no way you could get by doing that all day.
>>740952195it also has a lot less guessing involved than midwits think going by the "just a femur" lineyes occasionally specimen are described from a few fragments but usually when that happens it's a case of "we have only the femur, but it's obviously a femur of something part of a genus where we have a near complete skeleton of a different species, and going by femur length we can see it was somewhat smaller, with less thigh muscles, so we can make a reasonable estimate it looks like a smaller, more slender version of the different species"
>>740952236Because JP3 told them so and they refuse to accept reality that the Spinosaurus wasn't just a bigger T-Rex with a crocodile head.
>>740952008if this was the case, I wouldn't be madit'd serve us all right
>>740950459I’m old enough that my dinosaur picture books as a kid still had illustrations of bipedal dinosaurs like the t-rex standing vertically. I don’t really remember that changing until Jurassic Park.
>>740952462Palentologists are the biggest autists on the planet. They will rip to shreds any theory presented that isn't close to foolproof and take every opportunity to humiliate their contemporaries. If they accept it, I accept it.>>740952695Mine still had furred Pterodactyls with fangs.
>>740951105I just reason it that JP3 spino was one of Wu’s early splicing experiments that eventually led to stuff like Indominus.
>>740952395T. Rex was an active predator, every single discovery we make about them makes that patently obviousAlso an animal the size of T. Rex literally could not survive as an obligate scavenger, the largest terrestrial obligate scavenger alive today is the Andean condor and it only manages to reach it's size because it's one of the most efficient soaring fliers aliveIt was a highly intelligent ambush predator with exceedingly keen vision and scent adapted for killing large dinosaurs with a single traumatic bite
>>740952695"My First Book About Dinosaurs"I had two of those
>>740952695Same, and you're right. No science involved with that either. It's just Hollywood and media. Not saying dinosaurs weren't real, but we have absolutely no idea what they actually looked like or were.
>>740952695>I’m old enough that my dinosaur picture books as a kid still had illustrations of bipedal dinosaurs like the t-rex standing vertically.I remember that.
>>740952779yeh again that's something midwits don't understand, the modern paleontology community is made up out of highly competitive and educated professionals the best way to get notoriety and funding in the community is of course by discovering a new specimen, but the second best way is by discrediting another discovery and this second method is drastically easier so for every new species described there's 10 people desperately trying to disprove it so they can get the funding for their own expedition
>>740952815I just realized, that book was the first time I sought to learn things by reading, a trait which has stuck with me for the rest of my life. Dinosaurs are so cool that it genuinely made me seek out intellectual pursuits to see how cool they really are.
>>740952695>>740952815lol holy shit
>>740952910>but we have absolutely no idea what they actually looked like or were.we have good estimations about the parts we can actually determine from the remains we havesaying "we know nothing" is idiotic, we know a fair bit especially the more complete a skeleton we have
>>740953203Post the Iguanodon. You know which one I'm talking about
>>740953314I think what anon meant to write was "I know nothing"
>>740953084VGH SOVL
>>740953078Hint: That's probably the point of dinosaurs
>>740953314>>740953376No. We know absolutely, objectively, and literally not one thing about them. And we never will. And they are so long dead that it just doesn't much matter anyway.
Any day now…
>>740953078My four go-to books to check out at my elementary school library involved dinosaurs, Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, or that Crestwood House Godzilla book that James Rolfe is obsessed with.
>>740951618Bro fulger anjanath attacks with bowling ball sized snot rockets it conducts electricity through, monhun devs do not do anthropology.
>>740952008you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
>>740953757You will feel ashamed of your words & deeds once paleontologists discover Allosaur did in fact cover themselves in lighting and launch themselves like an oversized projectile to hunt prey.
>>740954032MH is crazy
>>740950459We have a pretty good idea of what Spinosaurus looked like nowadays, this skeletal isn’t perfect but it does do a good job at showing its known elements.
>>740954132Gold crowns are unrealistically oversized by design.
i wish there was a good dino game. is dino crisis worth trying? tank control games are hard. i did manage to beat RE1make but that was on easy (not very easy) other than that i haven't tried any.
also here’s an example of the river monsters that Spinosaurus lived with.
>>740954141the bone crest on the top of it's skull, do we know if that might have served to anchor or support soft tissue? Because that might change the general head shape a fair bit
>>740954648>Fuck you>*Remains unchanged for +65 million years*
>>740949769
>>740954463if ur a fan of the lost world/jp3 angle of "abandoned labs on dino island" then yeahthe tank control issues are lessened by how much like Code Veronica on the Dreamcast, it's environments are fully 3D rendered, and they use tracking shots and pans to let you explore each shot without losing which direction you're going init's good, I liked itDC2 went back to pre-rendered backgrounds tho so maybe miss that one
>>740953515>ifonlyyouknew.png
>>740954881Try billions of years with this one. All life today exists because this guy fucked.
>>740953679My next big anticipated game. Now that Routine actually landed.
>>740953515>>740955032
>>740954726Generally reptiles tend to stay fairly close to their skeletons when it comes to soft tissue and the crest had a rugose texture that implies that it was covered in keratin. Spinosaurus' newly discovered smaller species had a pretty impressive crest.
>>740953679The Lost Wild looks really cool. Survival horrror dinosaur game.https://youtu.be/nlt4o-mLxyM?si=HT3xiRx0Rl3RYwHO
>>740955181
>>740955305Why did it randomly zoom in on his cloaca?
>>740955384Pandering to dino fuckers.
>>740955235okay keratin covering is a pretty good indicator it was exposed, that's pretty neatI was just reminded of the trunked sauropod theory, and while modern day reptiles do stay fairly true to their skeletons, there are exceptions chin/neck flaps being a fairly common one
>>740951618I take no dinosaur story/game seriously unless they have feathered dino
>>740955452Must suck to be exclusively attracted to something that went extinct 65 million years ago.
>>740950459>2010s human
>>740951018this seems extremely unlikely considering how reptiles head works. they just evolves oft noses;
>>740953203What the fuck...Who would even bother taking realistic dinosaur design if it's to give it dragon breath later.
Why did he do it?
>>740953347
>>740955808Don't worry about it.
>>740954938
>>740955126technically that guy has existed for like a billion years, they resurrect instead of dying from old age
>>740955984it's funny because spotted hyenas are not scavengers either, 98% of their diet is fresh killspretty appropriate putting them next to T. Rex but not for the reasons that book says
>>740950268>>740950459JP keeps trying to compromise between three different visions. The classic movie Spielberg designs, the shitty World aesthetic and then trying to add all the current advancements and knowledge gained in the last 30 years of paleontology. Problem is nobody gives a shit about paleo-accuracy when all the dinosaurs are mutants with defects to make them more entertaining to people. So you'll have the 1993 Tyrannosaurus design in the same movie as a retconned, "accurate" Spinosaurus design, then a weird hybrid abomination next to a mosasaurus that could swallow a sperm whale.
Anyway I just gained a new favorite dinosaur. I didn't think much of the Parasaurolophus until I realized how INSANELY FUCKING BIG it was. I though it was just a shitty mid-sized scrubsaur.
>>740951620It was just assumed that the sail was a sine curve because that is normal for sailed animals. But the remains were very fragmentary.We have more remains now and see that oddly, it appears that spinosaur sails weren't an even curve, but instead vaguely m shaped.
>>740956220
>>740956170>JP keeps trying to compromise between three different visions. The classic movie Spielberg designs, the shitty World aesthetic and then trying to add all the current advancements and knowledge gained in the last 30 years of paleontologyIt's odd considering their middling output, but Jurassic Park has almost exclusive rights over the three most awesome things in the world.
>>740956303>>740956323
>>740956158not they don't, not in the way you think, jellyfish lifescycles are way weirder than most people know about what the "immortal" jellyfish does is revert to polyp stage as a medusa, but then it doesn't endlessly cycle, it splits up into multiple medusa clones some of which may die, some of which may mate and some of which may revert to reproduce asexually but the original "individual" doesn't really persist
>>740956287also really neat it's one of the few dinosaurs we know how they sounded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtpSOpUDCb8
Note that Jurassic Park was created in a world where dinosaurs weren't cool yet. So the movie is actually about how living dinosaurs fucking suck and we should stop playing god.
>>740956434>some of which may die, some of which may mate and some of which may revert to reproduce asexually>some of which may die41% of them to be precise.
>>740956626Dinosaurs were cool before Jurassic Park zoomy.
>>740956287I wish more media showed them fighting back against prey. Edmontosaurus could get bigger than a Tyrannosaurus theres no way it would just always run from it.
>>740950268spinofags got off lightly>>740953679never ever
>>740956626Millennial here. I was dinosaur-obsessed even before watching JP in 1993 in the cinema.
AYO
>>740956626The idea that kids and adults can get bored of theme park rides and animals so they can rot their brains on smartphones and Jimmy Kimmel adverts is...strangely accurate. Maybe if they just had Bryce in a g-string thong walking around it might've raised the amount of visitors.
>>740956750problem is that T. Rex generally wouldn't attack unless it could guarantee a kill, but if it actually got it's jaw around a hadrosaur it generally was game overT. Rex was an ambush hunter, so generally speaking a failed hunt on it's part would be the prey discovering it's presence before it had time to get within striking distance, there's no real "fighting back" against a T. Rex at least in any capacity that looks cool, fighting back would look more like Triceratops discovering it's presence and turning towards it presenting their horns + crest as a shield, but of a T. Rex could get behind a Triceratops and deliver a neck bit it's just over
>>740956970I thought 4 was a clever and well-executed movie, the best after 1. I haven't seen the ones after that. Actually that's a lie, I was forced to watch the latest one, but aside from the river boat T-rex scene I memoryholed the entire thing.
>>740950268Allies destroyed the best then known Spinosaur fossils during WW2 when they made JPIII, so it being inaccurate is not surprising.
>>740957131I personally think the good parts of 2 were so good they make up for the bad parts more than the sort of general attitude of "decent" that world has
>tfw the vast majority of species that existed in earth's history haven't left behind any fossils>there were likely hundreds of dinosaurs that matched or surpassed T-Rex but we will never know
>>740950459It gets more pronounced gamer posture as it ages
>>740957079A fight doesn't always have to happen when the rex is hunting. A male could feel its herd is threatened and attack one to defend them and its territory at the watering hole. Theres a video of a wild horse kicking the shit out of a gator when the gator is basking in the open field. Hippos also attack predators for nothing.
>Of course this thing looks like it actually existed & could fly>Don't ask questions
>>740951229>JP keeps culling the earlier, less accurate frog-monster dinos and archeology progresses and point out more inaccuracies in the earlier "models"Dark
>>740956434those creatures don't have brains, any mythosis is still the same creature, same with change of shapes. there is a non null chances that some of the jellyfishes alives right now went to a super long a cycle of reshape and clones without being born from eggs.
>>740957409What questions have you been denied?
>>740952695>I’m old enough that my dinosaur picture books as a kid still had illustrations of bipedal dinosaurs like the t-rex standing vertically.Bro
>>740957409>of course God always existed and created everything from nothing>don't ask questions
>>740957131I like the concept of 4, that something wonderful became mundane and they're both trying to remake it more awesome to attract people and find new venues to turn it profitable. In a quite meta way, 4 criticizes its own existence funnily enough.I thought the execution was awful (even if the effects were good). I checked out of watching the other 2.
>>740957385it wouldn't get to that point, T. Rex would either intimidate the male into backing off or be intimidated into backing off Gators are fairly lethargic, T. Rex was wasn't like that The only time a fight between them would be realistic is if the herd stumbled upon a T. Rex nesting ground but at that point the herd would have to go up against 2 T. Rex that will literally not back down for any reason
>>740957409they fucked up the proportions that's why.
How do I abandon society and fully sink into a fantasy existence where dinosaurs are real
>>740957614You're assuming Tyrannosaurus was some unstoppable shounen killer. Prey intimidates predators all the time. Theres risk in conflict with each other or animals that you hunt.
>>740957736And we know they were amazing at being a predator, because their fossils spread out everywhere. Basically if you think the t-rex isn't cool because of new fact, you need to redefine what makes something a cool predator, because this thing is scientifically proven to have been the coolest predator.
>>740957704The one on the left is doing seated cable rows that's crazy. Keep pumping, King.
>>740957704
>>740957736I literally said that the outcome of the watering ground was either the herd gets intimidated or the T. Rex gets intimidated so not sure what else you wantHowever T. Rex was a K-strategist so yes it would fiercely defend it's offspring and since we now know they practiced joint parental care it would mean both of them would be defending it and I just see no way that any herbivore would willingly go up against a pair of T. Rex who are defending their offspring like, we're talking swan level of aggressiveness here but actually backed up by one of the largest land predators in history
Fuck the butterfly effect.Someone build a time machine so I can go see a living sauropod already.
>>740957941Man I really hope dinosaurs didn't have autism like birds do.
>>740958017honestly the idea of giant dinosaurs having elaborate mating dances is super funny and I hope they did
>>740958076Test audiences would be like "I don't like dinosaurs anymore"
>>740957815I never said it wasn't a cool predator though. Reading comprehension....>>740957943>since we now know they practiced joint parental careWhen?
>>740958076>big theropod dinosaur males having fucking pompoms on their tiny little arms which they use in mating dances
>>740958216fairly recent discoveries but studies of T. Rex mating sites have found multiple different sets of adult footprints
>>740958239
>>740958195they gave toothless a silly mating dance in HTTYD and it worked we all need Utahraptor being silly in our lives
>>740958427to be fair to that scene, carnotaurus arms are weird, super articulate but at the same time lacking in musculature and length for any reasonable purpose and generally if you see something on an animal that makes absolutely 0 fucking sense for survival purposes, sexual selection is a pretty darn good bet
>>740958427Sexual selection is weird.
>>740949769I thought jurassic park 3 was great. Fuck everyone.
>>740958554they were for waving hi
>>740958642All those ducts automatically generating milk & yet they won't share any.
>>740956170Bang on the money. I know they were "trying" to be paleontologically correct when they made the first film but the dinosaurs from the beginning were established to be mutants. It's the perfect out for any inaccuracies from subsequent research.And now as you said it's just a stupid mishmash of different designs, the retconning of the pronated wrists is a sore point for me
>>740950459If we don't know, why not just make it cool instead of lame and shitty?
>>740958427
>>740957553Honestly how often can you recycle JP as a franchise? Its very limited its either>we opened a new park but OOPS something went wrong and theres dinosaur looseOr..>we discovered a new island with dinosaurs but now were stranded and have to survive on limited weapons and tools Theres been 7 movies of these and they get stupider each time. Either they need to change it up somehow but then that would get complaints from people who say it isn't JP.
>>740956303
>>740958803Dragons are basically that. Sadly that just makes people want to slay them or fuck them. Why can't we co-exist at a respectful distance?
>>740958834I kinda wonder about T. Rex if it would have made sense for their mating rituals to involve the male offering the female a kill to demonstrate it's ability as a hunter and provider for offspring
>>740958834T-rex-pose for dominance.
Compound Fracture? never everAthanasia? never everJurassic Park survival? never everThe Lost wild? will be never ever
>>740959000I think seeing a strong male would also sway a female. Like in that webm the narrative reason is the female sees the male Rex has numerous battle scars and is larger than others so hes desirable.
>>740957409You got answers several times in past threads faggot including one pointing out that model is inaccurate in to begin with.
>>740958820The answer is that things don't need to be recycled endlessly. JP had an awesome movie and a bunch of questionable sequels. It's okay to try new things, IP's aren't meant to last forever.
>>740958820>>740959214JP is here to stay unfortunately, and its mere existence causes issues with other possible dino ips because suits don't want to compete.
What is the dinosaur that you just like? you know its not impressive or tuff, but you just like the guy?Me its this little fella AKA potential man
>>740959183both at the same time are plausible, animals have multiple mating strategies all the timeso for a stronger, larger male it might be possible to attract a mate simply by being the strongest while a smaller male may be able to attract a mate by simply demonstrating his willingness to invest more energy into providing for their offspring (by offering a significant kill) they're not mutually exclusive, especially not for an animal as intelligent as T. Rex, they definitely had the mental capacity for both multiple strategies and personal preferenceI could see some T. Rex females preferring the less aggressive but more dedicated males as being more reliable parents
>>740959214Tell that to Universal. The last movie made over a billion bucks. Theres another one coming next year. Were going to be in our 60's on Jurassic Park 20 except now its Turok in everything but name. Cyborg dinosaurs, aliens and dinosaurs with superpowers.
>>740959364I know it's not a dinosaur but it just look so awesome. It's a contemporary and I don't care about the genetics.
>>740959364Not a true dino, posting anyway.Convergent evolution is kino.
>>740956287Hadrosaurs are so cool because of that. They look like helpless meat sacks, but then you look at their size and realize they were fucking ginormous. Some of them were as heavy as sauropods.
>>740959449These bastards had to have had a muscularly dense and maneuverable neck because that is just one big giant "attack me" sign in a world of open water and other creatures just waiting to get their next meal.
>>740959524their legs look kinda fucked up though because they switched between bipedal and quadruped multiple times
>>740952945Holy shit, I remember this pic.
>>740959572Could be a weapon, Giraffes will kick anyone's ass.
>>740949769Spinosaurus being a swimmer predator is cool, I don't see why that is something so controversial
>>740959524Big lizard babesnice to me
>>740952008it was weird realizing everything they show you about dinosaurs as a kid is basically just made up fantasy creatures
>>740959730I mean the primary weapon of a giraffe is not it's neck and it's neck is kinda hard to reach on account of it being a terrestrial animallike, getting kicked by a giraffe is like getting kicked by a mega-horse
>>740958017
>>740958895bro your trex has a lot of fingers
>>740959915They primarily fight each other with their necks, don't they? Like, they can't exactly reach their kicks to anything important. I'm not a Giraffe expert.
Dino threads are always so comfy.
>>740960074During fights for mates they slap each other with their neck awkwardly. They can only get about a few swings in before needing to rest. If chased by predators they'll kick because the last thing they want is a lion or leopard going for a vulnerable spot.
>>740959891
>>740959364Not actually a dinosaur, but he is one to me.
>>740956287Parasaurolophus is genuinely such a beautiful creature, also I wish on dinosaur fiction they'd show them standing up for themselves more since even if it hasn't got the fancy lethal features of other herbivores it's still a big animal that wouldn't just be easy prey.
>>740959364For me, it's the Pachycephalosaur.
>>740960074their legs are really long and a single good kick of it can cause enough internal damage to a lion to flat out kill itthey can kick behind them really well, similar to a horse, and nobody wants to get kicked by a horse, let a long a horse with way more mass an leverage
>>740959364“dwarf” sauropods
>>740960246T-Rex wank is genuinely harming the public consciousness of all the other dinosaurs. But the outcry from T-rexfags is too great whenever it jobs.
>>740960140>>740960338Do they fight lions & other animals on the regular? They're so large and powerful, I figured they mostly just fought themselves.
>>740958017>A Sauropod doing wacky neck manuveres for matingSomeone should animate that. Could join the Carnotaurus and Dilophosaurus mating dance club.
>>740960143>older than dinos and successfully outlived them>will probably outlive people tooCrocos really got it all figured out.
>>740960143
>>740956960Oh, it's actually called Nigersaurus. I'm guessing it was discovered by the Niger river.
>>740960441lions hunt giraffes and only about 20% of their giraffe hunts are successful
>>740959364For me it's the irritator, a dinosaur whose fossil got smuggled and modified by said smugglers, to the point it became an annoyance, hence the name.Non-dinosaur, I like how the Hallucigena is so weird that people aren't sure which side of it is up and down, and where is its front and back.
>>740960580miss that lil nigersaurus like you wouldn’t believe
>>740960470Annual dinosaur ancestry meetup
>>740960595Maybe a more accurate restoration?
>>740950459>>740949769
>>740960351That'd be a fun scene in a film where a T-Rex or other badass theropod tries to kill a Parasaurolophus but she uses her hadrosaur bulk and maybe some stomps or kicks to survive. I'm actually surprised that there's not been any notable recent stuff like Land Before time where it's accurate dinosaurs for the time or deliberately stylised ones that are intelligent/characterised and just living life. Most gotten is I suppose Primal which had Fang as a fairly developed lead and also a badass T-Rex.
>>740960813The lore was peak in the 2030's, but the rapid pacing and underdeveloped characters of the 2040's ruined it.
>>740960351You can thank Rex KANGS for putting a end to the rampant over feathering of all dinosaurs in that was going on since 2015. Being the most studied has its benefits including immunity to subversion.
>>740960847the really neat thing is that these are actually the island dwarfism versions of the Australian ones which were 3 to 5 times bigger If only the abbos hadn't hunted them to extinction
>>740960813>species died millions of years ago>the mere idea of you persisted enough for humanoids to make memes about you
>>740960825Weird mouth fella
>>740949769Why doesn't /v/ play that one game where it's just a bunch of people on a server surviving as dinosaurs???https://youtu.be/fJZ_UjMlmbg
>>740960910Which is which? One is cute as heck and the other looks like a demonic hellspawn.
>>740960910Is this what love looks like?
>>740960975They were probably eating the abbos back, us vs them situation.Unfortunately nothing wins against a large enough congregation of humans carrying rocks and pointy sticks.
>>740960983>I hope the huge shit I took before I die doesn't confuse future generations when they find my fossil>>Goddamn it
>>740961034
>>740961034The wider head one is the alligator. The one with the narrower head able to stand on its legs is the crocodile
>>740961050Primal Carnage was a good game.
>>740960994Cause the isle fucking sucks right now, filled with laggy jank one shot pin-slop and is full of chink cheaters that Dondi refuses to do anything about, they deserve the mogging path of titans is giving to them.
>>740960994full of tyrannical no fun allowed admins
>>740951618I wish more games made OC dinosaurs. Not that they have to go full ecology like MH, but put in a little more effort than an XL T-rex named Tyranizard or whatever.
>>740951508I love how you are absolutely wrong as if every discovery for Spinosaurus isn't more interesting like that it had a long crested cousin in Mirabilis, that it was a swimming predator while also being fairly effective on land and frankly any crocodile comparison is inherently complimentary as they are also marvelous creatures.
>>740960975Reminder that they burned most of Australia to do it.
>>740961401I love it too. It's like when they make fake guns.
>>740961232>Caiman here, no problems
>>740960994I've last played four years ago as Dryosaurus and some Ornithomimosaur. It was genuinely thrilling and the devs deserve major credit for making herbivores fun to play, but I can't play games like that for very long and honestly, looking at the game in my library just makes me mad because of how long it has been in Early Access.
>>740961464Humanity is so fucking awesome. I recently realized that animals react to us differently because we're nothing like anything that has ever existed before, and their brains can't handle it.
>>740961050is that The Isle?
>>740960994>>740961519Looks like one of those video game mockups on TierZoo's channel.
>>740949769I'm sticking with the JP3 Spino. I'm a Jurassic Park guy, not a paleo accuracy killjoy. I am looking forward to the chonky thicc T Rex and the new Mosasaurus, though. Actually looking more forward to the expansion pack's maps and the free update, though. Cearadactylus was one of the free dinos I really wanted.
>>740960847Where did you get this video of me
>>740961464Who can blame them really?
>>740961401The main issue is you need good creature designers, else you get really ugly looking shit like from that shitty Adam Driver movie.
>>740961232How the fuck alligators are present in south USA and China?
>>740961401Monster Hunter should add a badass Hadrosaur sometime. Like maybe have it utilise sonic screech attacks like Black Bolt or if Parasaurolophus could do wind blades with a sharp headcrest.
>>740961828>Behold a raptor!
>>740961909
>>740961828literally me on the left
>>740961828
https://youtu.be/_GGfz-o5khc
We will find dinosaurs eventually. Have faith.
>>740962081wtf why is that man willingly going into a cage?
>>740962274anon… >>740962081
Do anyone want some reading of fringe(probably schizo) theories about dinos?The guy is mostly known in schizo circles from his other theories but his dino take is also interesting
>>740962310he’s clocking in for his 9 to 5
>>740961909I've seen some jeet getting his leg artery cut by a cockfighting bird so yeah
>>740962081>>740962179uncanny
>>740960989snibeti snab
>>740962372what level of schizo are we talking? like dino bones were all planted by satan/jews?
>>740962081you will become nuggets
>>740958792You have ducts as well tho
>>7409569701 and JW are the only two in the entire series that I find even halfway tolerable.
>>740962372if it's from /an/'s paleoschizo then I heard quite enough insane shit from that retard already like therizinosaurs not being real.
>>740956626I fucking hate zoomers and their revisionist history. There are hundreds, if not thousands of movies featuring dinosaurs well before Jurassic Park, some of which are over a century old. You ever hear of Gertie the Dinosaur? The Lost World? King Kong? Beast from 20,000 Fathoms? The Giant Behemoth? Journey to the Center of the Earth? Land of the Lost? Planet of Dinosaurs? Valley of Gwangi? King Dinosaur? Godzilla? Land Before Time? Dino Riders? Dinobots? Probably not, because those existed before you did.
>>740961232If only you could combine the size of caiman with the personality of an alligator, you could get an actual pet out of it.
>>740961034croc's the hellspawn dogalli's the lowrider
>>740962485Not that sort of schizo. The guy is pretty good scientist(legal) specialising in bird hybrids.
>>740959364Will forever love Liopleurodon thanks to Walking with Dinosaurs even if that's a Marine reptile which isn't a dinosaur but Amargasaurus the possibly sailed sauropod has grown on me lately and Baryonyx is also another childhood fave of mine, can't go wrong with croc faced dinosaurs.
>>740962691>>740962485https://www.macroevolution.net/introduction-to-chapter-9.htmlI link his chapters that are connected with dinos although reading his whole work would be recommended|(but that is lots of reading).
>>740959154At least we’ve got dino themed mascot horror
>>740958805behold! a blue man!
>>740950268>hey the dilophosaur didn't really spit or have frillBoy you're gonna hate this
>>740956220>>740956303This is preudo-scientific
>>740964506Actually on the topic of the Dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park. If they do another world film, if it's good or not is another topic, I'd actually like if they had it be a bit more it's actual size. Hell you could do a fun bit where they drive off the smaller lot from past films but then the big boy comes in and it's like oh shit we're fucked.
>>740964713ligger copeMammalGODs won
>>740964713
>>740965220>Lizards big, mammals small>Mammals big, lizards smallCan't be a coincidence. It's an eternal war Chrono trigger style.
>>740960994got it recently and it's fun, plenty of different dinos to play around withseems like the kind of game you come back once in a while because the idea is cool and they keep working on it but it'll never really be complete and forever be janky
>>740965280They have such kind eyes
>>740959891these pictures are retarded because they're obviously made by people who have no concept of skeletal structure planning for shit like organs, fat deposits, or muscle anchors. Your bones are still part of your fucking body, they plan for where the meat goes, it's not like everything else just piles on top of them and changes the entire shape of the body.
>>740965407meanwhile amphibros just be chillin like always
>>740965692>After millions of years of evolution, we have created a creature that simply does not give a fuck about anything
>>740957941Guys...What if dinosaur were among us, in disguise?
>>740966264There is literally no way a fucking lizard could live among humans undetected. How would we even fit inside doorways? It's all just fearmongering to distract from the real issues.
>>740965220Neither bears nor tigers are pack hunting animals though. Pack hunters also avoid big healthy preys when you see lions go on a gnu or an elephants its a dying ill or old one
>>740966264Don't be silly... dinosaur are extinct.
>>740958427>>740958805>>740958834I don't remember the fish, but there's one who courting ritual involve sculpting and decoration.
>>740955305>WOOOOOW IT TOOK TWO OF YOU TO KILL ME
>>740966578I love the garter snake in Grounded 2. Curse this heron.
>>740967018Pufferfish? Or the one gathering rocks?
>>740955268>annapurnadon't count on it, it's going to be a walking sim
>>740966625bears would be a MASSIVE issue for sauropods but not in the way you might think, the idea of bears hunting sauropods is utterly absurd to the point of ridiculousness but sauropods have a very curious reproduction strategy that in large part relied on no animals being able to reach buried sauropod eggs while they were maturingarchosaurs are not that good at digging or detecting underground food, mammals were too small back then to be any realistic threat to sauropod eggs, other reptiles or amphibians aren't even worth mentioning hereBut bears? They are literally tailor made to not only be capable of reaching sauropod eggs, but also smart enough to figure out sauropod mating strategies and unfortunately for the sauropods, bears are very much capable of tolerating large numbers if the food supply is sufficiently abundant (see salmon treks)
>>740967293Some of the best survival horror games are essentially walking sims. I think instantly dying to everything precludes it from being a walking sim where game overing is impossible.
>>740956303>>740956323Look, if you put up a big hungry BVLL polar bear up against one of those oversized lizards, it's lunch. Mammals are smarter, faster, higher endurance, more FEROCIOUS...there's a reason the cucky Rex isn't around anymore, y'know?Imagine this BEAST slamming into the Rex from the side and wrestling it over, CRUNCH goes the leg brain, RRRAAAAWR it's biting and clawing, Rexy is squealing it's gay little scavenger roars to try and call Spinosaurus for help but nobody is answering. He's a living picnic basket for this Yogi.
>>740967429>Hibernation season ends>Posts like these pop up everywhereFuck off, Yogi.
>>740967429the fuck is this deviantart fanfiction drivel? You are aware this is an adult website, kid?
>Look, if you put up a big hungry BVLL polar bear up against one of those oversized lizards, it's lunch. Mammals are smarter, faster, higher endurance, more FEROCIOUS...there's a reason the cucky Rex isn't around anymore, y'know?>Imagine this BEAST slamming into the Rex from the side and wrestling it over, CRUNCH goes the leg brain, RRRAAAAWR it's biting and clawing, Rexy is squealing it's gay little scavenger roars to try and call Spinosaurus for help but nobody is answering. He's a living picnic basket for this Yogi.
>>740959891To be fair Hippopotamus are dangerous deathworld creature.If I could I'd make a story about space ranger visiting a planet that look somewhat idyllic, but everything is actually ridiculously dangerous or not what it look like?>flee giant toothed creature>walk into muddy water>"water" turn out to be an organism that trap its prey, and the giant creature tooth was just to heat said water>sit on a rock>rock is actually a mimick that kill its prey by transpercing them with a sudden spike>walk under floating "umbrella/baloon seeds">it actually detect slow moving creature, drop themselves to impale them, use toxin to zombify them and make them walk in a directionand so on
>>740961034closer to camera is alligator, further is crocodile
>>740967562oh shove it Barney, you're just mad because your kids are the new salmon
if you really want to just destroy any mesozoic ecosystem all you gotta do is introduce some fire ants or argentine ants there's flat out nothing from that era that can even begin to handle a modern style ant, let alone the most invasive of the bunch
>>740967165Something more sophisticated than the pufferfish see here >>740967018.My google-fun can't find it, but it was in a documentary and the damn fish actually made a work of art with sand sculpting, shells, and maybe algae decoration.
>>740967875reminds me of that Primal episode with the rabid brontosaur
>>740964713>Fact Check Status: False
>>740968676
>>740968225>if you really want to just destroy any mesozoic ecosystem all you gotta do is introduce some fire ants or argentine antsYou reminded me that contact with alien might be genocidal.Our biology would be so damn incompatible, if one side as the slightest advantage the most basic bacteria would destroy the other's ecosystem.
>>740967496not the alien isolation kind of walking simthe gone home kind of walking sim
>>740955665This is a Spinosaurus Ægiptiacus™, not a reptile
>>740960994doesn't have quetz... yet
Palentology is so weird.>Brontosaurus is the second most popular dinosaur>>>Actually, Brontosaurus never existed>>>Never mind, Brontosaurus existed
>>740968793but that comic is idiotic, they have space shipsif you have space ships you can wipe out a planet, if you have space ships you don't have to care about any lifealso contact with aliens wouldn't really be genocidal, unless by some extreme coincidence our biochemistry would be compatible, we simply don't have the mechanisms to digest their proteins and vice versa reason why modern ants would be ridiculously dangerous to mesozoic life is because basic biochemistry is still compatible
>>740951018>>740952008I love fringe spino interpretationsI want to see a game or movie where half the animals are just different versions of spinosaurus in different habitats
>>740955973TALK DUMBYOU GET THE THUMB
>>740959891people post shit like this and then get mad when you make dinosaurs fat and covered in feathers
>>740954141The new dipping fin arrangement lends further credence to the argument that it's actually there to anchor retard-strong neck muscles like a bison, even though apparently this is not considered a valid anatomical assumption for reasons I don't altogether comprehend.
>>740969456actually...but in reality it doesn't make sense because its skull is so clearly adapted for hunting fish and completely different from theropods that hunted large prey
>>740960910CHADODILE HARDMOGGING that beta-gator
>>740967875This. The dumber an animal is the more cartoonishly violent they're likely to be.Herbivores today absolutely will fuck you up just because they feel like it.Herbivorous dinosaurs would have been like Bison on tren.
>>740969081What triggered you? Putting Fermi's paradox aside, we are either the first civilization, or we appeared too late and the alien's TOURISTS will be like gods to us, accidentally destroying your ecosystem with their trashes, if they don't knock your planet out of orbit just passing by.>extreme coincidenceWe have no basis to know if it would be unlikely or inevitable.It doesn't even need to digest alien organism to destroy the ecosystem, just spreading faster while unable to be consumed would suffice.
>>740969614The bison doesn't use its immense neck muscles for hunting prey, it eats fucking grass. It uses its immense neck muscles for 10% self defense and 90% dunking on lesser males during mating season.
>>740950459Where the FUCK are the feathers?
>>740950459What is the next step in Spino evolution?
>>740969827not really, because sauropods were flat out not intelligent enough for thattheir neuron to body mass count is closer to insects than it is to mammal herbivores it's debatable if they even had enough neurons for any recognizable individual personalities and outside of sauropods, herbivorous dinosaurs just weren't as intelligent as modern day mammal herbivores, a rhino would be considered exceptionally intelligent by mesozoic standards part of why T. Rex got so dominant in all likelihood was because it was stupidly intelligent by dinosaur standards
>>740969950yeah but furthermore the bison's hump extends quite a bit past into the neck, and peaks at the shoulders. It makes sense that it would be a large hump resting on the shoulderswith spinosaurus it mostly stops by the shoulders, and peaks in the middle of the back closer to the hips. It doesn't seem like a convergent trait, and the musculature would be extremely weird and completely unlike any other animal
>>740969906>It doesn't even need to digest alien organism to destroy the ecosystem, just spreading faster while unable to be consumed would suffice.anon you might want to reread that sentence without the ability to digest alien biomatter it's impossible to get energy out of it or raw materials meaning you just starve no matter how successful you are and yes it would require extreme coincidences for earth's life to be capable of digesting alien life, if their proteins are folded even slightly differently none of our enzymes work, and considering that protein folding is one of the most complex and diverse things imaginable it's exceedingly unlikelyit's not really triggering, it's just basic biochemistry that most scifi-writers get wrongthat said I agree with you on the fermi paradox, I'm in the camp of "we're the first intelligent species in a billion lightyears"
>>740970068>neuron to body massok but these are literally the biggest land animals everyou don't get dumber just because your body is big. Encephalization quotient is a correlate to intelligence, but sauropods are obviously an exception
>>740969950don't forget that it uses it's neck muscles to clear out snow so it can eat the grass under it during winter, it's why they're so successful on the american plains (similar reason why horses were so successful on the eurasian steppe, they're also capable of digging through snow)
>>740953203
>>740970364there's a bare minimum of neurons you need to simply control all basic bodily functions and process input from each part of the body yes there's a diminishing return, but sauropods were extreme in the discrepancy, their brains are smaller than any large mammal herbivoreand large here includes the likes of sheep
>>740970224mammal body plan vs reptile body plan shenanigans? Look at that thing's goofy ass clavicles, it isn't putting any weight on its forelegs as an anchor like a bison is, it needs the pull point to be closer to its center of mass. Though if it was aquatic it doesn't really even need it in the same way at all since it isn't going to dig in and push, what it really needs is muscles that can compress and expand with a lot of force to whip its head back and forth, to yank shit into the water or twist it around under there.IDK I just don't buy the argument that an animal burns that much bodily mass on bones that are borderline decorative. There are plenty of other spiny-ass animals from that time period or earlier with far thinner bones doing the same structural job. It's not like it's a vestige of the massive neck bones of other related dinosaurs, the motherfuckers GOT that big over time, that only happened if there was evolutionary pressure to increase their mass to that degree.
>>740970068>>not really, because sauropods were flat out not intelligent enough for that>their neuron to body mass count is closer to insects than it is to mammal herbivoresI wonder if intellect would be part of explain why huge creature prospered before as a survival strategy.Like:>didn't evolve much brain yet>can't outsmart predator, smell them, or even spot them>can't outsmart prey or attack their weakpoint for massive damage>die from the dumbest fall or river if you try to move fast because you are dumb>only creatures that survive natural selection are the ones that quickly grow too big to be bothered by other creature
>>740962081Behold a man!
>>740970490the extreme discrepancy is why sauropods are an exceptionit's unrealistic to think that an organism like this would be as smart as an insect, their brains were much larger than that of any modern reptile and brain size is also a correlate for intelligence
>>740970680there absolutely has been a massive intelligence evolutionary race in the cenozoic that didn't exist before, brain sizes not just among mammals but among reptiles and even amphibians and certain fish (sharks notably, though there are some highly intelligent ray finned fish as well) have increased dramatically compared to prior eras and it's a real shame that we have zero idea of how cephalopod brains evolved because I'm super interested to see just when they began evolving their massive brains even among niches that in prior eras would have absolutely zero reason to evolve anything resembling intelligence you see that arms race, like we're used to rats being clever bastards but if you think about it, that's flat out not normal, a small generalist r-strategist like that has no business being smarter than every single non theropod dinosaur we know abouta definite contributing factor, though recent, is that we're in a prolonged ice age so large animals need to be more adaptive since even rodents struggle to adapt evolutionary to climate swings between maximums and minimums, but that can't explain everything since the paleogene was still a hot-house climate
>>740970701there are large animals with very basic level intelligence though, and sauropod strategies were virtually devoid of any need for complex thoughts, they overwhelmed predators with massive r-strategy spawning and as adults were simply too large to hunt while living in a stable climate and capable of accessing abundant food sources with little competition the idea that despite having smaller brains and drastically increased body size compared to modern day mammal herbivores, they would still have comparable intelligence is also rather absurdwhile probably not insect tier, you most likely do have to look at them as being on the level of amphibians or fish
>>740959364The Iguanodon is kinda tuff I suppose but I just like it, ever since I saw it on the OG Walking With Dinosaurs way back when. Plus there's one on the coat of arms of the town in England where it was first discovered which is pretty funny.
>>740971536iguanodon is also famous in belgium on account of an entire near perfectly preserved herd being found thereI think it's still the best preserved large group of dinosaurs in the world
>>740970289You may have misread me as well.I said that even if you cannot digest anything, just using basic resources faster, while undigestible for others, would let you outcompete the local biochemistry and starve it.Yes proteins folding is complex, but natural selection work in every direction, evolving to digest, evolving to avoid being digested, selecting what can digest those anyway.It is quite possible one ecosystem will have -something- that can eat half of the other ecosystem.>it's not really triggering, it's just basic biochemistry that most scifi-writers get wrongDespite the silly alien joke, this webcomic is among the smartest you can find. FYI the blue alien isn't humanoid, it's basically a squid living in a human exoskeleton just to breath.It does get things wrong, use artistic license... but as far I know, thinking ecosystems will barely interact might be a bigger mistake.
Niggas making massive assumptions that all herbivorous dinosaurs were dumb just because Sauropods were ITT.We can speculate as much as we like, but you must accept that if predatory dinosaurs could have had fairly complex social behaviours then they must be reasonably intelligent. Birds are.Ergo it must have been advantageous for them to evolve this intelligence. Nothing ever evolved as big as Sauropods, so we can surmise the other plant eaters were probably at least comparatively intelligent to their modern analogues otherwise why wouldn't they just be pressured into massive size too?
My ancestor :)
>>740959364Albertosaurus. It feels like a very well 'balanced' theropod. Long legs for speed, pretty strong jaws, big but not gigantic. Just a dude.
>>740969081>but that comic is idiotic, they have space shipsThey don't, IIRC that guy is the only sqid to ever make it off of his planet somehow.
>>740960994i think its fun in short bursts but it's a buggy game that develops so slowly that dinosaurs might re-evolve into existence before they release the one im waiting for (therizinosaurus), and the community is the biggest bunch of drama queens ive seen outside of Dead By Daylight
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>>740971165>small generalist r-strategist like that has no business being smarter than every single non theropod dinosaur we know aboutI'd disagree on that one. The smaller you are, the smarter you need to be to reach food, let alone escape predators.But yeah, if every creature were on average much dumber than today, with few instincts, the ecosystem would create prey creature that only survive with size, and predator that can strive because their prey are too dumb to evade.The funny thing is that bird's brain are considered to be proportionally much smarter than us.
As bad as the Jurassic World films are, we can at least agree the Mattel toyline is pretty neat.
>>740966408>we
For me it's whenever a dinosaur shows up in 2000AD.
What was the funniest dino? Like which one had the silliest behavior do you think? One of the things that bums me out the most about dinos being extinct is how pretty much all animals nowadays do stuff we find humorous from time to time and knowing dinos probably did stuff like that that we'll never know about makes me sad.
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>>740971903>just using basic resources fasterthat only works though if you get autotrophs in so the ant thing wouldn't really work, what they'd really have to fear would be algae and grasses and while natural selection does work aggressively, it's not magic and one of the things natural selection is terrible at is reversing adaptations to be more generalist, and basic level biochemistry takes a very long time to evolve and doesn't really occur outside of micro-organisms ducks again would be no real issue to their ecosystem, they couldn't digest their equivalent of plants because they don't have the enzymes to do so and they can't evolve it because they would die out before a single generation passedthe comic does get it right that some bacteria (though most of the cyst survival species tend to be archaea) can survive for exceptionally long times in cyst form though and I'll give it credit for that, though the bacillus strain 2-9-3 survival is disputed (but not disproven conclusively)
>>740949769why is it so bright?
>>740972749you'll probably have to look among the more intelligent ones and the more social among themeven today if you see silly behavior in birds it's often in highly intelligent social species like corvids or parrots since they understand the concept of shenanigans so in a bit of irony maybe, velociraptor would be a pretty good source for dinosaur shenanigans
>>740955384You know why.
>>740972893probably because its a park management simulator so they want the dinosaurs to be visible and identifiable from a high viewing point
>>740951323Frankly this is how I feel about most shrinkwrapped "dinosaur" fossils and the designs they've come up with. It wouldn't surprise me if half these niggas were like proto-hippos and shit
>>740972094I wish humans had large canine teeth.
>>740972749Simosuchus gives me a goober or pug crocodile vibe so I'll nominate him.
>>740960910holy shit how he closed the other one's mouth, that's so cool.
>>740973591I like the fact we don't have any innate weapons, makes it that more impressive we're the greatest apex predator to ever live
>>740973634>I’m sure to win because my intelligence is superior >:)
>>740973634>Man, I wish I had a wife that big
>>740973634OUT OF THE WAY THEROPOD FUCKING SHITS
Where can I learn more about dinosaurs
>>740956206Best horror movie monster dinosaur.
>>740976014Honestly as much as the film wasn't good, everything with how they did Theriznosaurus was 10/10. Props for showcasing that the most aggressive and cruel dinosaur in a film can also be a herbivore. I also like that they justify it's behaviours since it's half blind unlike the downright suicidal prioritie Baryonyx in the previous film wanting to eat people over escaping the fucking lava which is even dumber when it's diet was mainly fish.
>>740956206>>740967875Therizinosaurus probably ripped motherfuckers in half all the time. I don't really know where the herbivore=placid thing came from, in nature real herbivores are mean motherfuckers. And you would be too if you knew your entire existence amounted to being fat slow and dumb enough to be make a good meal to feed a pack of animals that get to eat once every couple of days if they're lucky. Even a rabbit will bite and scratch the fuck out of you if you get too close and it can't run away. Not like amphibians, a frog's natural response to a threat is to just stop thinking and accept death.
>>740976268It almost wasn't even put in.
>>740960989Imagine there's a world out there somewhere with these niggas still swimming around. Just alien shrimps and shit.
>>740976546Unless it turns out that Therizinosaurus was actually the dino equivalent of Salad Fingers and those big claws were for rooting around in thick vegetation to find the tastiest plants or something.
>>740976782Thank god they didn't let that idiot Collin remove the best scene. Like way to miss the entire point, the fact Therizno is a vegetarian is why it's scarier cause that means it genuinely wants you dead out of malice.
deinocheirus is just a cooler therizinosaurus, it's a giant duck with murder claws
My dream game is a badass beat em up game from the team that did Shredder's Revenge and Cosmic Invasion where you play as dinosaurs. Could easily make great movesets out of countless species for the playable leads and in turn have great bosses and enemies from whatever dinosaurs you don't make playable.
>>740976782>"Argh, scientific advisors! Why would you tell me that!?"See: >>740976546You'd have to be a complete idiot to think that because something is an herbivore it's a big friendly chicken. Tell this guy to get in a pen with a wild bull for ten minutes and see how he feels after.
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>>740976782This doesn't surprise me at all. They genuinely don't care, hence the rehashing of dinosaurs are boring over and over as each film still makes hundreds of millions.
>>740977793It's mental to me they try to keep using that dinosaurs are boring to the public plotline like people don't go apeshit when they see any random animal out in public. Like just seeing a Blue tongued skink in the garden once or a possum in a tree at night made my day and seeing a cg Sauropod in a film just looking so alive instantly makes me teary eyed nowadays. It doesn't even work metatextually since the dinosaurs are the only investment people get in these films and the toyline also showcases that people fucking still love dinosaurs, hell the resurgence in documentaries and appearances in shows or videos games lately also shows that.
>>740976546the average herbivore doesn't chase down prey so retarded normalfags think that makes it harmless when the non-average herbivore will happily bull rush you down for no particular reasonyeah a bunny might run but even a boar will gouge your shit outsee normalfags walking straight up to moose or stags thinking shit's a disney film
>>740978048Yeah, it just comes off as projection to me, like it's more that THEY think dinosaurs are boring.
>>740977793But... why?There's like a thousand different prehistoric animals you can put in a river to be a threat Why make up something random?Like you don't even need to make it a dinosaur if you don't want, put a bunch of Dunks in some water they need to traverse, people would eat it up or like a basilosaurus, people aren't going to care if the snake thing is actually a prehistoric whale
Wait are dinosaurs avians or reptiles wtf?
>>740978483They didn't give a fuck.
>>740978202Far too many people have been butted and gored by bison at Yellowstone over its years open. Some people are truly baffling. Hell, normal cows kill twenty people annually.
>>740978202>the average herbivore doesn't chase down prey so retarded normalfags think that makes it harmlessIf you ever want a good time, check out youtube videos of retards trying to pet wild moose and buffalo and shit. I live in an area with a lot of wildlife and having to tell people, "no it isn't just bears, if you end up in 30 feet of a moose put your phone down and haul ass in the other direction" is literally part of my job when dealing with tourists.
>>740978626Both. Avians are reptiles
>>740978254It's also clearly a bullshit excuse to introduce the mutant freakasaurs or reset the status quo instead of actually utilising the instantly compelling premise of dinosaurs are now in our current day world in giant numbers, how do we interact with them either benignly or in hostility, how do the dinosaurs effect the environment or other modern day species and that's not even going into the tonal variety of stories you could tell. Like if aiming for whimsical and heartwarming could do a boy and his Dino type stuff or someone caring for an abandoned old Nodosaurus, a comedic story of like a hadrosaur or Irritator munching about in a convenience store with some overwhelmed retail employees trying to get it out or going full horror like how they had that short of the family trying to survive an Allosaurus and could do stuff like a cruise or fishing ship attracting the attention of a hungry horde of Pliosaurs. But no let's have the dinosaurs start dying off and go back to another island cause but before that focus entirely on some locus focused corporation scheme cause creative bankruptcy.
>>740978651godI'm even thinking about using the Dunk in a JP/JW movie and I can already imagine the scenethey're traveling across water on a raft, someone panics seeing things approach going "Are those sharks" Someone else, probably someone more educated calms them doing saying "they're not sharks, look they're too round, fin isn't shark like, it's just fish"everyone calms down breathes a sigh of relief, someone's harm is hanging in the water and then a dunk suddenly lunges at it biting the arm showing it's massive armored jaw as the punch at it to no effect, person is pleading, they try to pull him/her back but it's no use and they're dragged underwater, blood spreads, more dunks approachnow they're lunging at the people who huddle on the raft trying to get to shore as quickly as possible, dunks miss but their massive jaws bite into the raft and break clean through it, tearing chunks offmore panic, raft starts breaking up, will they make it to shore yes or no(taking some liberties here but JP takes liberties all the time)
>>740978968Hell you could even do a bit where all the attention then attracts a piscivore dinosaur of your choice that perhaps in a twist makes things go better for the group since it goes after the Dunks rather then the people.
>>740949769They don't make them like they used to
>>740951442I haven't seen any past Jurassic World but I distinctly remember them speaking about how the dinosaurs were supposed to be feathered but they genetically tailored them to match people's expectations rather than what they really would have looked like.
>>740979348yup that's actually a good ending to it especially if you do something with the raft breaking up and someone barely hanging on as one of them swims closer only to get snatched upcould even be a neat subversion to use the spinosaurus or a mosasaurus for this
>Gameplay: 3/10>Being a fucking dinosaur: 10/10
>>740954648Mais, dat's some mighty fine eaten!
Dino nerds, I have to know, did all dinos have feathers of some kind, or just some of them? They couldn't have hair because that's a mammal thing, right? Were there dinosaurs that were scaly like reptiles?
>>740979717only a bunch of therapods did
>>740979489They have an unused prologue showing a natural T-Rex and Giganotosaurus fighting which besides the species not being in the same time period liberty also has them use the same designs as the genetic ones shown later in the film instead of something a bit more accurate. Though I'm not a person who gets anal about dinosaur accuracy and think it's fine to take liberties for a fun design, it does feel like a missed opportunity to highlight the difference in the real animal to the revived through genetics lot. Though it's also an odd idea to imply that both animals remember this confrontation in their revived versions.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uMAO6oRyaLM
>>740979717feathers are ancestral to theropods but not present in all of them, and not at all present in non-theropod lineages all dinosaurs had (the potential for) scales which is obvious even today as most birds have some remnant scales on their feet, feathers are actually evolved scalessome proto-feathers were very much hair like and would have looked far more like hair than a modern day highly differentiated featherPterosaurs also had hair-like structures that were not feathers but evolved in a similar fashion
>>740979717Feathers are literally just more complex scales. Both are keratinized skin.
>>740979557Like maybe set up earlier in the film the Spinosaurus observing them, getting rowdy but not causing any deaths or getting close to their trail which they think means it's pursuing them as a threat and then just have it turn out it was following the same path as them cause that's where it's natural fishing route is. I know subversion is a dirty word nowadays but it would be a fun twist on expecting it to be the problem theropod of the film when instead it turns out to be something of an odd ally.
>>740951229Asset 87 still looks the same way he did in JP3.Just because the other parks had more seemingly accurate Spinos doesn't shatter the frog DNA and genetically modified creatures throughout the rest of the series.
>>740979837>>740979908>>740980025I see. So it was a mix of unfeathered, partial, and fully feathered all around.
>>740979464What a smug ass mammoth
>>740979717The only fossil of T-rex skin shows it was likely scaly with no feathers
>>740980115there's nothing wrong with subversion as long as you use it to enhance the scene and in this case it's a neat subversion, the harmless fish a are the real problem and the spinosaur is an ally of convenience, it makes for a good scene maybe even add some irony in that they went on the raft to sneak by the spinosaur
>>740979489Correct.Jurrasic Park is marketed as going back in time to see Dinosaurs like fucking magic.But there are no dinosaurs at Jurassic park.Not a single one. Never was. Never intended to make actual dinosaurs.Just the smartest people in the world being greedy corporate dicksucking idiots.That's the entire point of the book, and the first three movies.But even when you lose the plot, it's still an excuse to go rule of cool instead of faglord feathers and down syndrome spinosaurus. Just make them neato
>>740960149Hell yeah, brother. I want a tiny little dimetrodon pet so much.
The reality of Jurassic Park is that the monsters aren't the dinosaurs, but the fucking computers.I wish JWE games understood this.
>>740980787no the real monster of the book is Hammond and in general human greed
>>740980874Hammond does underpay Nedry, but even if he overpaid Nedry, the computer systems were never designed to deal with the problems the park ended up having like breeding.
>>740980414Aye the reason subversion gets the stinkeye now is cause when done wrong it just takes away, but some of the best moments in media are subversions but we don't register them as such cause it adds to it, like for example Indiana Jones just shooting the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Back on topic you could still get a cool fight scene if the Dunklesteous horde try attacking the Spinosaurus after it starts getting their attention after scooping up the initial few or even have one that is the size we used to think it was get into the conflict to get the triumphant dinosaurs are cool shot after the Spinosaurus finishes it off in a clever way to get around its head defense. One Marine reptile I'd love to see appear in the films is Nothosaurus, also despite getting a bunch of toys it's a shame none of the prehistoric crocs have been in any of the films either.
>>740981174yeeup you get a tense scene with something unexpected but still dangerous (fish with armored head and bolt cutters for mouth), you get drama in trying to survive it and you get a cool fight sequence between them and a dinosaur while the survivors escape or like you said the Nothosaurus, hell you could do this as an intro to the nothosaurus, and then later on have a sequence where they're faced with a nothosaurus again, realizing this time there's no fish to distract it and knowing that they have been established as being capable of killing the fish that claimed one of their lives and nearly many more
>>740956068How are you supposed to counter the thumb of death?
>>740956323
>>740981668This is what Gorosaurus should be doing whenever he shows up again in Godzilla. You Are Umasou is a great fucking film, everyone in the thread should watch it.
>>740982059>tranime
>>740950459why don't these fucking faggot paleontologists just wait for more bones to get dug up and go fuck off and work at mcdonalds for 30 years
>>740982296Why wait when they could just try to dig them up now?
>>740982296Because their entire career depends on writing a bullshit paper that gets published then disproven a few years later.Even Horner was making up bullshit just to get paid, that's where the "T-Rex is a scavenger" meme comes from.
>>740956220>>740956303>>740965220You can tell the niggas who wrote this shlock have literally never read or watched anything about dinosaurs lmfaoWhat could a tiger or bear hope to do against something like a Rex, who fought each other and had wounds from their crushing bites? Elephant niggas are coping hard too if they think an elephant could take one. Niggas routinely overestimate mammals while downplaying reptiles, especially dinosaurs.Same type of niggas who think a grizzly would "steamroll" a saltwater croc, despite the latter weighing 2-3x as much.
>>740982362It's all made up and the bible is the only reliable source of information.
>>740982396It's why it's taken ages for people to realise some of the emotional or behavioural nuances of reptile species cause of very mammalian bias and also why it even took a while for consideration of how dinosaurs could be employing more complex or intelligent animalistic traits. Like Crocodiles are primitive but that doesn't mean they are stupid, they are genuinely some of the most perfectly formed and evolved species which is why they've not had to really change anything over thousands or millions of years.
>>740982565Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs at all>BUT DRAGONSNot dinosaurs.
>>740982335I don't know man, I ain't no fucking scientist but if I were like smart and shit I'd be focusing on making a machine that detects fossils in rocks instead of rubbing 2 bones together trying to make fire you know what I mean
>>740982396but anon, dinos had hollow bones which means they are weak.
>>740983159Steel pipes are hollow too
I really don't care about the science as long as the end result is sexy
>>740950459Whatever it really was like in reality, it was a bizarre behemoth.
>>740984559sure but a lot of animals right now are pretty bizarre behemoths too, like we kinda accept that giraffes and elephants are a thing but those are weird ass animals
>>740970068>>740970490Reptiles and non-primate mammals basically have the same neuron count for a given body mass. Reptiles have a more dense brain layout where neurons are in a 3D mesh, instead of relying on a folded 2D plane like mammals.
>>740950960It absolutely would have a point, like any other body part.>same as chicken have those thing in their headsThey have those for temperature regulation and mate selection.>or some dogs have extra long earsThey have those because they were bred by humans to look that way
Are 1 and 2 worth playing with 3 out? A buddy gifted me 1, but I have this weird feeling that I'm playing a far inferior version
>>740985427I think 2 is straight better, no idea about 3.
>>740951106>schizoposting
>>740953432>steg-o-sau-rusNot>ste-go-sau-rusWhat have American schools been teaching kids?
>>740977793>>740978483Reminder that Gareth Edwards is also pro AI. Do not be surprised one bit that hes now Universals Golden Boy especially since his career started out as a VFX dude.
>>740953551Based retard
>>740953432>jee-goh-note-oh-saw-russIDGAF what niggas say it is GIGA not jeego, fuck you.
>>740978483Because Gareth doesn't give a shit about dinosaurs in a naturalist's way. To him, they're just Monsters and props for a movie
>>740970224Maybe the spinos neck wasn't actually that long? I've become pretty disillusioned with paleontology. These niggers will find 3 bones and extrapolate an entire creature out of it. Articulated fossil finds are exceptionally rare. Most dinosaur physiology is entirely made up, just like space shit. It sounds good enough and no one can question it so let's all just roll with it. It's pretty gay.
threadly reminder
>>740952462How many articulated fossils have been found? The results may shock you.
>>740982082Newfag
>>740988435How do you feel if it's pronounced gigan-oh-toe-saurus
>>740950459were there no remains with the complete sail/legs until 2014-2020? is that why the legs are so much shorter and the tail is thicker now?
>>740956068Why do they keep changing teams?
>>740989516The most complete or concrete skeleton got destroyed in WW2. Theres no pictures and anyone alive to have seen it is dead or didn’t give enough of a shit about extinct animals to care.
>>740989751well that sucks
>>740953084Dinosaurs used to be so cool.
>>740960143Fake and gay "what if". Kys troon.
>>740960461Short, scaly, webbed feet typed this post
The modern giant armadillo is so similar to the ancient ankylosaurs that it is only reasonable to suppose it is descended from them. The same is true for pangolins and stegosaurids (although the case is somewhat weaker because the exact external form of stegosaurids is a point in dispute). These similarities strongly suggest that two of the most common "dinosaurs" of the so-called Age of Reptiles — ankylosaurs and stegosaurids — were in fact mammals, and, even more remarkably, that their direct descendants exist even today. So in their cases, it seems, there was no "extinction of the dinosaurs" — there was merely a reconceptualization and reclassification (both may be cases of residual dwarfism). If so, then the diet of stegosaurs and ankylosaurs was probably not herbaceous, as has been conjectured. The diets of their modern counterparts would suggest that they were primarily insectivores that also ate small vertebrates and carrion. Their jaws completely lack the grinding teeth needed to process tough plant material. They probably used darting tongues to feed on insects and small vertebrates then ground them in a gizzard.
>>740950459I like the 2000s and 1915 the most but I don't mind 2014 actually
>>740950268What's worse is you can tell it was done out of spite for JPIII.>Spino got a drastic change but T. rex, Dilo and the raptors kept their familiar looks from the OG trilogy>they literally made the rex bigger and beefier in comparison to making Spino smaller and uglier>killed the JP3 Raptor off unceremoniously
>>740956170What's funny is if you point this out to paleofags they'll act like you're a schizo (or a creationist?) for daring to notice or care.
>>740954141Looking at what they haven't found here, I've concluded you'd have to be retarded to believe Spinosaurus had stubby legs smaller than its arms.
>>740971165I think people just underrate the intelligence of modern squamates or crocodiles and imagine that mammals with tiny brains like rats and the like are special. Birds evolved back in the Jurassic. Maniraptors had brain sizes pretty similar to modern birds throughout the age of the dinosaurs.
>>740990537I don't mind them making Spinosaurus more of an aquatic swimmer but they could've beefed the design up a bit and made the neck longer instead of the Quasimodo stumpyness.
>>740972749Pachycephalosaurs absolutely had to be the dumbest motherfuckers to ever exist.
>>740990765I think whats stupid is spinos being packmates to a mosasaurus. Like there is not enough food around that island to sustain something that can capsize an entire boat like nothing, meanwhile the Spinos can just lurk in the rivers of whatever island Rebirth takes place on and harvest fish or attack animals coming to drink. Its not like the mosasaurus can swim up the river either. Fucking 4 year olds can come up with better worldbuilding playing with legos than this.
>>740969389It's more the other way around these days.>ERM, what???? you want to STYLIZE your dinosaurs and make them SCALY???>AIIIIEEEE HELP ME ALL YESTERDAYS I'M GOING INSANE
>>740960994Because The Isle sucks and is just a wait in a bush to die simulator where you waste 6 hours growing a T. rex just to get mogged by mixpackers.
>>740991007They're friemds. Also yeah jokes aside it's a bit odd, like I'm trying to think how else to rationalise it since whatever a Mosasaurus eats wouldn't leave much scraps for the Spinosaurus and the Spinosaurus probably don't provide much helping the Mosasaurus besides maybe diverting or weakening prey which would be to small for the Marine Reptile.....so maybe they are just friends lmao.
>>740976782Scene did nothing for me since is smack dab in the middle of one of the worst movies I've ever seen and it was already spoiled by the ads.
>>740991119
>>740991630Actually, I shouldn't say spoiled, more like "overexposed." They really wanted you to know Claire was gonna be in a SCAWY situation. Good job beating all the tension out of it, retards!
>>740988817What is this supposed to remind me about
>>740991701I remember as a kid having the Metroman still being alive stuff spoiled for me cause of the trailers for Megamind. Always sucks when advertising does that, you've at least got YouTube comps for the only parts of the world films worth watching. Which is obviously just when a dinosaur is on screen and without any of the dumb context or story weighing it down.
>>740991668I too can play this game.
>>740991668>>740991938
>>740992045Doesn't this just mean dinosaurs were dragons and confirm the Bible is real?
>>740976782>ugh herbivores can't be scaryThis fucker never heard of hippos
>>740951229That's how it looked in Warpath, too, just a generic theropod with a sail. It was also a moveset clone of Megaraptor, which back then was thought to be just a jumbo-sized Velociraptor and is now part of its own distinct family.
>>740992097>Bible>real
>>740992283If dinosaurs are dragons then yeah.
>>740992316>dinosaurs>dragons>real
>>740992353So that just leaves the Bible being real then. Interesting.
>>740952779>>740952993>everything science is just people trying to destroy everything we know and replace it with their freaky garbage to cause civilization to collapse and humanity to die!Fucking Christ, you people are worse than 9/11 conspiracy theorists. As we learn more about things, theories change. That's it. Once upon a time we thought volcanoes and earthquakes were a grumpy god living underground having a shitfit. Now we know they're caused by the movement of the Earth's crust and mantle. We once thought the seasons happened because a goddess's daughter spent six months with her and six months in the underworld, the former making it spring and summer and the latter making it fall and winter. And for a long time we thought dinosaurs were big dumb vicious lizard monsters who died out because they sucked at existence. Now we know they were extremely successful, existed for a really long time, were a myriad of shapes and sizes, and we're still learning as we excavate more material.
>>740976782>>740977592>>740977793>>740991630>>740992202Do these people not have fucking google? They needed a scientific advisor to tell them it was a herbivore? They couldn't check Wikipedia?
>>740990585Just like how /v/irgins lose their absolute shit over some dinosaurs being feathered and dinosaurs not being portrayed as snarling insane movie monsters.
>>740958803This, why don''t we just stick buzzsaws on its arms, mouths all along its back, and a railgun on the tail? That's absolute peak awesome, not lame and tranny like a real animal is.
>>740952791That was jossed, the Mutadon and Distortus rex were the start of the hybrid program that led to the Scorpios rex, Indominus rex, and Indoraptor.
>>740992543That's my favorite thing about paleofags. They're so gay about liking dinosaurs.>dinosaur is passive and does nothingWoah JUST like a real animal!!!>dinosaur is aggressive and violent (prehistoric nature is brutal)Erm, movie monster much??? Reddit's not gonna like this...
>>740992543I'm a dinosaur centrist honestly. It can be stylised, a prehistoric movie monster, a cartoon lead with sapience or a painstakingly accurate depiction as a real animal but as long as it looks good and is well executed that is all I need.
>>740982396Elephants would have a problem. Mammoths, however...
>>740960461Crocs and sharks, the two toothy menaces
>>740962934What are those? Sounds like gay boomer trash.
>>740993084Trying to hard in trying so little
>>740959572Plesiosaur necks were fairly rigid. They couldn't do the flexible motions shown in a lot of movies, especially the S-shaped raised out of the water thing.
Hey guys what's going on in this thread?
>>740978202>Boar spears had to have wings to keep them from continuing to charge while impaled and fucking your shit upMetal fuckers
>>740950459>2010's shitting on humanityheh ironic
>>740991332I liked that they were mates
>>740992893Exactly how it should be but it seems like paleofags nowadays just want to snuff out any sort charm or personality in how modern dinosaurs are portrayed in various forms of dino media all for the sake of sucking off paleontologists.Paleoaccuracy is to dino media what this hyperfixaction on advanced, peach fuzz-rendering graphics are to video games.
>>740960847licky licky
>>740990537The Spinosaurus' redesign had nothing to do with JPIII. That particular Spino was in Camp Cretaceous and remained a massive murderous death machine. We found more fossils of Spino and found out it wasn't a crocodile-headed Allosaurus with a sail, but a bizarre-looking semiaquatic piscivore. Rebirth's Spinosauruses were modeled after the newest scientific data. But if if helps, the facility on that island was specifically for creating hybrids and mutants to show at Jurassic World so you can say they were horribly misshapen monstrosities while the Sorna Spino is the real animal.
>>740992678>dinosaur is aggressive and violent (prehistoric nature is brutal)>Erm, movie monster much??? Reddit's not gonna like this...They say this when the animal is portrayed as something like the Wolfman, Xenomorph, Jason Vorhees, etc, mindlessly aggressive and obsessed with killing humans and slaughtering other animals without intent to eat them.
>>740993640I personally enjoy any dino media if its good or prehistoric media period. Its dated in terms of information but the Walking with Trilogy is the template for documentaries and hasnt been surpassed period.
>>740950459
>>740960910it's always weird seeing crocodiles high walking
>>740993875God forbid animals with teeth and claws use them in a movie to entertain you.
>>740994192When people think the real animal is like that,it's a problem. Like how everyone thought Jaws was real and that all sharks were murderous man-eating monsters which led to millions of sharks being eradicated by terrified retards.
>>740994475>everyone thought Jaws was realNobody tell this guy what Jaws was based off of.
>>740994475Who cares? What is someone thinking or preferring Jurassic Park's dinosaurs to reality (the one where we're never going to know what these animals looked or acted like in the first place) going to actually do?
>>740994542A novel, yes. People still believed that the book and movie's portrayal of sharks was truth. Which led to a massacre of sharks that many species are still trying to recover from.
>>740994658>novelYeah, don't anybody tell this guy LOL
>>740956970I'd mate with this dinosaur
>>740972835>that only works though if you get autotrophs in...and if you get those in, THEY will destroy the ecosystem, turning it into something local species cannot digest.The only thing that change is how fast the losing ecosystem will break down and whether the species will end up like "War of the world".>they couldn't digest their equivalent of plants because they don't have the enzymes to do soNo guarantee of that, they could still prosper from digesting a part of it then shitting the rest.You portray it as unlikely, I've always heard of it as inevitable that something WILL prosper.>ducks again would be no real issue to their ecosystemHere that's mostly for the joke, coming from an alien who would only know of this from the human super-scientist who revived him if they don't reveal Sam already met Dr.Bowman and they are best buddies I'll feel cheated.Still it is their setting, even "improbable" it turns out those Earth creature can digest the alien Sam, Sam (noble scavenger) can digest human food, and mankind found a planet they can't colonize because of the chemistry (so they are testing if they could uplift a local species up to sapience, don't ask why).
>>740994475To even it out we should just kill a few hundred million browns. Who could complain?
>>740977592>because something is an herbivore it's a big friendly chickenChicken can eat insects tho, but as long as you aren't as small as.... Oh no!
>>740993640Aye it's like a lot of them will either forget the context of the Media's tone, when it came out since often it'll be accurate to what was available at the time or what is just deliberately speculative and mostly just what the creatives think would be interesting like Walking with Dinosaurs having Liopleurodon be larger then it's depicted while Primal or Land before time 9 has a more accurate sized one despite being more fantastical media but has the hindsight of being made with more available info. Exoprimal not being 100% accurate a representation doesn't bother me cause they still made the dinosaurs aesthetically pleasing and I like how The Dinosaurs 2026 has Spinosaurus use hunted fish as bait for bigger fish and has a more accurately scaled Dilophosaurus to Jurassic Park. It's all about context, execution and quality in my mind to me since a documentary has to be held to different standards to say a movie, cartoon, dinosaur fanart or video games. Even with documentaries I love seeing how different ones will approach design, behaviour and narrative for the same prehistoric creatures.
>>740990738like I said not a perfect skeletal but even then we found a tibia belonging to its smaller cousin Spinosaurus Mirabilis and it once again shows similar proportions, these animals really did have short ass legs. not that short legs on theropods are even that strange look at Ceratosaurus or Majungasaurus
>every other theropod's cousins have proportionally balanced legs>so does Spinosaurus'>one of the largest carnivores on earth actually had stubby legs that would realistically make it unable to function properly because we found, uh, this OTHER Spinosaurus that was most likely juvenileHmm...
>>740979489It was one of the other World movies where it started, I think Dominion.The first World movie was still alright.
>>740995394meanwhile its actual close cousins like Irritator also possess the same short legged proportions see MN 4819-V
>>740994979I always see these Oviraptor looking lads being about people sized so mental to think there was one this massive. Biggest I could think of that I knew beforehand is Utahraptor being bear sized.
>>740995747lollmao
>>740996462unless you are seriously implying that Irritator had a fucking Tyrannosaurid style tibia (something not even Suchomimus the most terrestrial adapted Spinosaurid had) then its legs wouldn’t be much longer than outlined, you can go much fragmentary as much as you want.
>>740996462Paleontology is such bullshit.
>>740996745*muh*
>>740996763you are like a little baby, feast your eyes on this!
>>740952695Same.
>>740967293This. My heart sank when I saw Annapurna attached to it. I'm just gonna write it off now.
>>740959891Hope The Spinosaur didn't look like that...
>>740997509Nah, this is Spinosaurus here
>>740962081The cutest thing
