Favorite Dinosaur!

[_Z_Ryuken]

Negative, Velocoraptor was the size of a turkey, Jurassic Park got it wrong. They used the fossils of a Deinonychus (cant spell it) as a basis. Compys were about the size of a chicken (this is height, not length)

After checking this, my world comes crumbling down. Thank you JP.
Thanks for nothing...


I used to be a huge dinosaur buff. Had all the Zoobooks and watched all the shows, knew all the names...
I was the only person I knew that could both say and spell archeopteryx...

)':

 

[dfc05]

After checking this, my world comes crumbling down. Thank you JP.
Thanks for nothing...


I used to be a huge dinosaur buff. Had all the Zoobooks and watched all the shows, knew all the names...
I was the only person I knew that could both say and spell archeopteryx...

)':

Sorry to make your world crumble again but..
archaeopteryx has a second "a".

If it makes you feel any better, I misspelled "stegosaurus" in the poll. Also, pterosaurs and plesiosaurs apparently aren't dinosaurs. They lied to us. AUGH.

Edit: Oh wait "archeopteryx" can be spelled with or without the second "a". Tricky.

 

[Thread]

Velociraptor.

hahahahaha

did you do that?

 

[99.vikram]

The thread speaketh :O

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Sorry to make your world crumble again but..
archaeopteryx has a second "a".

If it makes you feel any better, I misspelled "stegosaurus" in the poll. Also, pterosaurs and plesiosaurs apparently aren't dinosaurs. They lied to us. AUGH.

Edit: Oh wait "archeopteryx" can be spelled with or without the second "a". Tricky.

I had a second "a" but took it out for the sake of simplicity, because, between you and me,
>.>

<.<

I couldn't really remember. :/

Air and water-born dinos were never considered "dinosaurs" by paleontologists. People just grouped them together.

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Look at how many people chose the velociraptor. Oh how JP has deluded us. The true name of the taller creature is crap. Deinonyshit or some shit.

 

[99.vikram]

I thought all cold blooded reptiles of the time were dinosaurs?

 

[Que-Ever]

velociraptors are still the shit, JP or not. You see them, and you're all like, "oh, it's so small, that can't do nuffin" and then it runs up and slashes you across the face, and then you're like, "oh damn!" and you try to run away but the other six that were hiding in the bushes rush you and make you shit your intestines. The point is, you're still alive when they start to eat you.

EDIT: ooh, vikram, I want to smack you.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

I thought all cold blooded reptiles of the time were dinosaurs?

There is speculation the dinosaurs were warm blooded.

"The time" in question is the Mesozoic era.

Mesozoic
The Age of Reptiles ( 231 - 65 Ma ), divided into Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

Large reptiles and dinosaur-like creatures as well as other cereatures had different all-emcompassing designation.

Some examples:

Archosaurs
(Ruling reptiles). Super-order of reptiles including dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, thecodonts and birds.

Thecodont(s)
Group of archosaurs from which dinosaurs and pterosaurs descended (now obsolete).

Therapsids
A group of extinct Permian/Triassic synapsids that gave rise to the mammals.

 

[Raziaar]

Wanna know what are more hardcore than dinosaurs?

Turtles... turtles have been around for 50 million years longer than the very first dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs have NOTHING on turtles!

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

LOoking at it's face I feel as if I am traveling back in time...

So that is what hundreds of millions of years of evolution has come down too. A pile of ugly with a shell.

(caption)
"Eyyyyy yoouuuu guuuyyyyyss!"

 

[EC]

The Tyrannosaurus Mex

 

[Raziaar]

LOoking at it's face I feel as if I am traveling back in time...

So that is what hundreds of millions of years of evolution has come down too. A pile of ugly with a shell.

(caption)
"Eyyyyy yoouuuu guuuyyyyyss!"

That's the Arnold in the turtle world... All the female turtles probably think he's a hulking hunk.

 

[Que-Ever]

Yeah, well, who would want some ass from a chick turtle?

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

That's the Arnold in the turtle world... All the female turtles probably think he's a hulking hunk.

Oh I don't doubt that.

Speaking of turtle ass, I picked up a turtle once in Florida and I thought I had it facing away from me, but then something poked out of it's butt and bit my stomach.

It's face :|

Bit me right on the naval. x'O

 

[Llama]

velociraptors are still the shit, JP or not. You see them, and you're all like, "oh, it's so small, that can't do nuffin" and then it runs up and slashes you across the face, and then you're like, "oh damn!" and you try to run away but the other six that were hiding in the bushes rush you and make you shit your intestines. The point is, you're still alive when they start to eat you.

EDIT: ooh, vikram, I want to smack you.

Well actually, some researchers believe that the claw on the foot was use to puncture the windpipe of an animal, not slash it's belly open. In other words, you might be dead when they start to east you

God im such a :dork:

 

[Bad^Hat]

Negative, Velocoraptor was the size of a turkey, Jurassic Park got it wrong. They used the fossils of a Deinonychus (cant spell it) as a basis. Compys were about the size of a chicken (this is height, not length)

Yuss! That's why I liked em better

I have a poster somewhere of all the raptor-like dinosaurs, from the same family/species. There's about four I think...

 

[Darkside55]

Yuss! That's why I liked em better

I have a poster somewhere of all the raptor-like dinosaurs, from the same family/species. There's about four I think...

There are way more than four dromaeosauridae. There are about 21. There are 10 in the subfamily dromaeosaurinae alone, which is where deinonychus is placed. Velociraptors are the only ones in their subfamily of velociraptorinae. But the whole of the family also includes winged dinosaurs like archaeopteryx.

 

[Geogaddi]

 

[JNightshade]

That's great

'course, it would be better if you spelled "alcohol" correctly, but still

 

[Danimal]

That's great

'course, it would be better if you spelled "alcohol" correctly, but still

Or if AL's head was on it.

>_>

 

[Raziaar]

Speaking of turtle ass, I picked up a turtle once in Florida and I thought I had it facing away from me, but then something poked out of it's butt and bit my stomach.

It's face :|

Bit me right on the naval. x'O

May I ask you why you had it down near your abdomen/groin region for it to have bit you on your navel?

:|

 

[JNightshade]

He was looking at it with his third eye >_>

 

[Geogaddi]

I realized I spelled it wrong, but was too lazy to fix it.

 

[el Chi]

Wanna know what are more hardcore than dinosaurs?

Turtles... turtles have been around for 50 million years longer than the very first dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs have NOTHING on turtles!

Pffft - piddly crap.
"The first sharks appeared in the oceans 400 to 350 million years ago." - Wikipedia.
They've hardly changed in all that time - that's how perfectly adapted they are.
Dinosaurs are still better than them, though.

Velociraptors are the only ones in their subfamily of velociraptorinae. But the whole of the family also includes winged dinosaurs like archaeopteryx.

Most of the more recent models and drawings, etc. I've seen of velociraptors depict it as having a sort of downy-feathered covering and/or feathers on its arms.

 

[TheGMan.]

Wrong.

I am assuming you are saying "Wrong" to my statement about Jurassic Park. It might sound bias, but Dinosaurs wouldn't be as popular without the movie Jurassic Park. It is only one of the top selling box office hits ever. It captured the visual effect of a Dinosaurs, which movies back then, failed at doing so.

So yeah, without Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs wouldn't be as great. Not unless Discovery Channel keep whoring TV shows about them.

 

[Septih]

Ankylosaurus has been my favourite since i was about 5

 

[Darkside55]

Most of the more recent models and drawings, etc. I've seen of velociraptors depict it as having a sort of downy-feathered covering and/or feathers on its arms.

Yeah. Dunno how much I believe that though. Certainly some of them did but raptors? Eh...

And GMan, I don't think Jurassic Park did all that much for dinosaurs. Dinosaurs have been fascinating people for over a century now. Kids born long before Jurassic Park came out have been enthralled by dinosaurs as children, without needing to see them come to life on the big screen. It's just that JP showed them "alive," moving and roaring and all the things that we'd only thought of in our imaginations. So it did help but they were big long before Jurassic Park, and will continue to be.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Ankylosaurus has been my favourite since i was about 5

Hi 5! You know where the fun dinosaurs are at, so misunderstood D:

 

[Bad^Hat]

There are way more than four dromaeosauridae. There are about 21. There are 10 in the subfamily dromaeosaurinae alone, which is where deinonychus is placed. Velociraptors are the only ones in their subfamily of velociraptorinae. But the whole of the family also includes winged dinosaurs like archaeopteryx.

Yeah, but they aint on the poster

 

[Javert]

Wow, suddenly I had a flashback of elementary school days, the days of "Jurassic Park" and "A Land Before Time".

It's all about the stegasaurs!

 

[PvtRyan]

Wanna know what are more hardcore than dinosaurs?

Turtles... turtles have been around for 50 million years longer than the very first dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs have NOTHING on turtles!

http://www.dausettrails.com/snapturtle.jpg

QFMFT

The other day, the oldest turtle of the world died, she was 176! She even met Darwin on his trip to Galapagos. But there was a a turtle in India that lived to 255. They didn't die of age either, since they don't age (in the sense that their DNA doesn't deteriorate), but of things like heart attacks.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Ahh yes Harriet, my friend wrote her wikipedia article so i know tons of unless information on her. It's a sad story but she had a long life. *lip quivers*

 

[Llama]

I am assuming you are saying "Wrong" to my statement about Jurassic Park. It might sound bias, but Dinosaurs wouldn't be as popular without the movie Jurassic Park. It is only one of the top selling box office hits ever. It captured the visual effect of a Dinosaurs, which movies back then, failed at doing so.

So yeah, without Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs wouldn't be as great. Not unless Discovery Channel keep whoring TV shows about them.

Complete, utter, 100% rubbish. Im sorry, but that it such a stupid statement im going to have to tell you off Dinosaur remains have been uncovered for over one hundred years, and they were world famous back then.

 

[Raziaar]

Pffft - piddly crap.
"The first sharks appeared in the oceans 400 to 350 million years ago." - Wikipedia.
They've hardly changed in all that time - that's how perfectly adapted they are.
Dinosaurs are still better than them, though.

Most of the more recent models and drawings, etc. I've seen of velociraptors depict it as having a sort of downy-feathered covering and/or feathers on its arms.

Turtle obliterates shark any day of the week...

QFMFT

The other day, the oldest turtle of the world died, she was 176! She even met Darwin on his trip to Galapagos. But there was a a turtle in India that lived to 255. They didn't die of age either, since they don't age (in the sense that their DNA doesn't deteriorate), but of things like heart attacks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13115101/

Damn... its hard to believe a freaking turtle living for nearly 200 years... That's why they are better than dinosaurs!

But as far as cool factor... Elephants are the best.

 

[Llama]

Now thats an advantage I'd want - Never ageing

 

[Laivasse]

After checking this, my world comes crumbling down. Thank you JP.
Thanks for nothing...


I used to be a huge dinosaur buff. Had all the Zoobooks and watched all the shows, knew all the names...
I was the only person I knew that could both say and spell archeopteryx...

)':

Cheer up, Deinonychus is everything Velociraptor was supposed to be and more! Pretty sure there were some even cooler Dromaeosaur types too, but my memory is rusty.

They've only found fossils of the forelimbs so far, but Deinocheirus looked like it might have been pretty tasty too:

From the list, my favourite is a tie between Triceratops and Ankylosaurus, but I'll go for Ankylosaurus because I imagine it to be the more 4ltrrnative ch01ce.

 

[Raziaar]

ROFL, that looks like a brontoraptor.

 

[jimbo118]

LMAO!

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

May I ask you why you had it down near your abdomen/groin region for it to have bit you on your navel?

:|

I was looking at it with my third eye.

Actually I was about 10 years old and didn't know any better. Thing sure did show me who's boss though, biting me and all.

Might be intersting to point out it had a spiny shell, or some kinda sharp points going down the back.

 

[TheGMan.]

Complete, utter, 100% rubbish. Im sorry, but that it such a stupid statement im going to have to tell you off Dinosaur remains have been uncovered for over one hundred years, and they were world famous back then.

Yeah, but Reading Rainbows clay animations of Dinosaurs didn't get the visual effect of dinosaurs. My comment was typed wrong. Jurassic Park gave the visual effect of a Dinosaur, in which many people loved and go to see what a 'real' dinosaur probably looked like a million years ago.