Apparently, All the Interesting Dinosaurs Have Been Discovered
As a child of Jurassic Park, I still get a rush of adrenaline when one of my pals from the San Diego Junior Archaeological Society calls me on the phone I had installed just for the purpose (it's shaped like a Dimetrodon) to tell me about a new species.
Imagine my disappointment, then, when I was informed by a decidedly glum Tommy Franklin (Junior Dino-Cadet, Pteranodon Unit) that scientists have just discovered a dinosaur dubbed the cow of the Mesozoic era. I was so upset I dropped and shattered the commemorative Dr. Hammond glass Id been holding.
A cow?! Dinosaurs are meant to strike awe and fear into the hearts of man, not remind them to pick up some brisket on the way home. Lest you think Im overreacting, heres a side-by-side comparison of the Nigersaurus and some other, more deserving animals granted the title Dinosaur.
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dilophosaurus did NOT spit acid like depicted in jurassic, they were instead normal predatory theropods, just goes to show you that a real paleontologist didnt wright this article
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Just goes to show you that a novelist didn't write this comment.
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ReplyArchaeologists don't study dinosaurs. Paleontologists do. Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur, he was a synapsid (mammal-like reptile). And pterosaurs, like Pteranodon, weren't dinosaurs either. They were flying reptiles.
And I assume it's been covered, but Velociraptor was more of a sharp, pissed off chicken than a bear trap. As far as brains, Troodon is the way to go. Your average Labrador (IQ -4) could probably think circles around Velociraptor, although granted the Lab would probably get eviscerated before his neurons warmed up. Velociraptor was, by all accounts, a vicious little cuss, but he was small, probably skittish, and likely not very bright.
Everyone's a nerd about something.
lol a cow dino
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ReplyVelociraptors you could take down with a shotgun. Like, ACTUAL Velociraptors. Not the JP ones. 12 gage probably would be the best. They're easy. Unless of course they get lightsabers. Then we're fucked.
ReplyT-Rex... RPGs. Blow big chunks out of the bastards. Doesn't matter if there's 4-5 dinosaurs, because as long as you have 2 or more RPG launchers, you can take them all.... Again, unless they get lightsabers.
Actually you wouldn't even need a shotgun. A baseball bat will do for breaking the damn thing in half.
well guy lets stop looking at the dinosaurs as if they were movie monsters. for one t-rex can see you when your not mving. also climb into a log. the t-rex's servival instincts will kick in and it will probly leave you alone to avoid injury to its self sence your only a small snack to it. the exspection to this rule would be if you were near is nest. its theroized they were worse than bears when it came to protecting their young. next the rptor would follow you no matter where you hid and like the t-rex could out run you hith ease. also you are a small meal to a raptor so it would want you. next fire arms vs dinosaurs. raptor skin was like cow hide but their hollow bones and small frame would make it easy to kill wih modren day mid to high calibier weaponrey. for raptors i would recamend any rifle calibier .308 or greater in size. for hand guns a magnum higher than .357 or a .45 ACP. personly though if i were fighting raptors id be using a M14 chamberd in .308 and the smith and wession .500 magnum revolver. now a ginst a t-rex you might as well poke it with a stick if you plan on using somthing lower than a .50, and dont even bothe with a pistol. its skull wuold be about X15 times harder than that of the cape bufflo. if you hunt large game in you know those guys are tough as nails. for a t-rex i would recamendsetting up a tower 80ft above the ground and using a BOYS anti .55 calibier anti tank rifle from WW1 or an RPG/TOW misslie system. also dont count on a t-rex being alone. packs of them have been found together consisting of up to 4 or 5 of the dinosaurs. being about a hundred times more dangrous than any creature on earth today i would stay away from them if they were ever reserecurted.
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ReplyphTheDude: The debate as to whether T-Rex was a hunter or scavenger is as yet unresolved. Fingers crossed, my friend.
ReplyBluesheep: It was actually stegosaurus that had a walnut-sized brain. T-Rex's brain was bigger than ours (still pretty small for it's body size, but Rex wasn't no dumbass).
By the way, velociraptors may be tiny, but their relatives Deinonychus cut a stature closer to those badass motherfuckers in JP. And then of course, there was Utahraptor: eye level with Yao Ming, 23 ft long, with claws on their feet longer than your hand. And don't forget, they hunt in packs.
Fucking anakin killing all the goddamn jedi... now we have no hope.
ReplySorry for the double post.
ReplyWhat if the velociraptors had lightsabers? THEN WHAT WOULD WE FUCKING DO ?
ReplyWhat if dinosaurs had lightsabers? Then what would we fucking do?
ReplyDidn't it come out a couple of years ago that the T-Rex was actually a carrion eater? Like a vulture?
ReplyWhich is... kinda lame really.
Re: Pete:
The size of Turkeys? Also kind of lame. I agree with you however, an 8 foot scorpion is totally badass.
If Tyrannosaurus skin was bulletproof, it would have been fossilized.
ReplyThat whole acid-spitting Dilophosaurus thing is a really bad myth propogated by Jurassic Park. While larger than they appear in that movie, they were pretty small, and in no way spit acid.
ReplyAlso, they were part of the Triassic period, not Jurassic.
Fucking Steven Speilberg...
Um, Jurassic Park was scientifically speaking, a bigger mound of dino crap than the one Laura Dern sitcks her arm in up to the shoulder.
ReplyVelociraptors were fierce hunters, they were also the size of turkeys.
Imagine being attacked by a flock of turkeys, even though Turkeys can be quite fierce at times and have clawed feet, strong wings and sharp beaks, you're still more likely to die laughing after having kicked a few birds in the spleen.
Far more fun is the fossil of the 8 foot fucking SCORPION they recently dug up.
Personally, the idea of velociraptors with feathers is not less terrifying, its MUCH MUCH more terrifying. Imagine walking in the park and having a flock of velociraptors swoop out of the sky at you and carry you off someplace to be eaten. Slowly. Fuck. That.
ReplyPlus why wouldn't the T-Rex just knock down the watchtower you were in? He's not just gonna kick it while you fire into him with a machine gun. I think people are underestimating the Dilophosaurus. The fucker has range and having acid eat through your face HURTS. The thing probably pees on you while you're laying on the ground contemplating the face-melting you've just received.
ReplyI remember watching some show about grizzly bears where a hunter said you need a very large-caliber rifle to kill a grizzly, and even then you have to hit it right or it might not go down. A big grizzly weighs 1000 lbs, while a tyrannosaurus weighed 15,000 lbs (looked it up). It seems like even if you really unloaded on a t-rex with a machine gun, and even if the bullets did pierce the skin, it would just be too massive for the bullets to have an effect. I doubt you could hit anything vital with all that muscle and whatnot in the way. Like if a person got shot with a bunch of bb's. We need to get the scientists working on an answer to this!
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