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Scary Monsters Science Took Away from Us
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19-09-2012 4:36pm#1
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BBC's "planet dinosaur" had "spiny" as a right bad ass, so now science is saying thats not really true ?
Its kind of a complicated issue...
I think any creature as big as Spinosaurus and with jaws looking like this:
Should be considered badass regardless of whether it could beat T-Rex or not in a fight. Because that's where all the hate for Spinosaurus began; with Jurassic Park III.
Before the movie came out, Spinosaurus was little known and no one really cared that some books already said it was as big or bigger than T-Rex.
Lots of fanboys accused the JPIII Spinosaurus of being grossly oversized, when in reality fossil remains suggest it was BIGGER than the movie version. So fanboys will take any chance to make Spinosaurus look less badass now.0 -
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It wasn´t a ginger. Whoever wrote that article is mixing up Sinornithosaurus (the "venomous raptor") with Sinosauropteryx, a fuzzy relative to Compsognathus that was the first dinosaur to be "colored in" by science. Sinosauropteryx was a ginger- we still don´t know what color Sinornithosaurus was.
From scienceblogs:
"In contrast, the filaments of the theropod Sinornithosaurus (Figure 3) are packed with regions that are rich in either eumelanosomes or phaeomelanosomes, indicating that they might have been speckled with the distinctive Hallowe’en motif; orange and black. "
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/28/orange-stripey-dinosaurs-fossi/
Ooh, Halloween dinosaur
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From scienceblogs:
"In contrast, the filaments of the theropod Sinornithosaurus (Figure 3) are packed with regions that are rich in either eumelanosomes or phaeomelanosomes, indicating that they might have been speckled with the distinctive Hallowe’en motif; orange and black. "
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/28/orange-stripey-dinosaurs-fossi/
Ooh, Halloween dinosaur
Well, I'll be damned! :eek: I had no idea they had colored Sinornithosaurus in too. My apologies!
Now we need to know what color Beipiaosaurus, Yutyrannus, Dilong and Caudipteryx where. Among others...0 -
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Haha the guy who writes this whines too much. How is Megaraptor any less awesome than the giant Velociraptor version? I bet if it had been found to be a dromaeosaur the guy would be complaining about how it probably was feathered and not as scary/badass as it would be otherwise.
Personally I think Megaraptor and kin are among the scariest dinosaurs we know of; these guys were seemingly quite fast and they could easily disembowel their victim with one swipe of those gigantic claws. They probably looked more like the classic JP-Style raptors than actual raptors did.
Yep, seems like he's clutching at straws here. I initially thought this was about the giant oviraptor Gigantoraptor. I could understand some disappointment if you expected a giant Jurassic Park Velociraptor and ended up with this
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Yep, seems like he's clutching at straws here. I initially thought this was about the giant oviraptor Gigantoraptor. I could understand some disappointment if you expected a giant Jurassic Park Velociraptor and ended up with this
https://xkcd.com/1104/0 -
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The Planet Dinosaur version was less colorful but more badass:
Kind of like an early version of a terror bird. If it was indeed a predator, it is scary because I doubt it would kill you as quickly as a toothy predator would.0 -
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The Planet Dinosaur version was less colorful but more badass:
Kind of like an early version of a terror bird. If it was indeed a predator, it is scary because I doubt it would kill you as quickly as a toothy predator would.
Fast or slow death, I think I would much prefer never having to find out lol.0 -
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