Favorite dinosaur?
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Aphex_Twin
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Velociraptors were quite neat
Oh, and Apatosaurus was previously known as Brontosaurus. For those interested...
Edit: Where are the ichtiosaurs (fish dinosaurs)? Yes... Paleontology is one of my hobbies
Oh, and Apatosaurus was previously known as Brontosaurus. For those interested...
Edit: Where are the ichtiosaurs (fish dinosaurs)? Yes... Paleontology is one of my hobbies
Ossric
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Gigantosaurus : bigger than T-Rex
but i should have voted for the biggest of them all: Liopleurodon
At almost 25 m long Liopleurodon was the biggest carnivore that ever existed. It had four large paddle-shaped limbs, which made it a powerful swimmer.
With an enormous 3 metre long mouth which contained teeth twice as long as those of Tyrannosaurus, it was a formidable predator. Its teeth were arranged in a distinctive rosette at the end of its snout. Records show half-eaten ichthyosaurs and teeth marks in plesiosaur flippers are clear evidence of their huge appetites.
Recent studies on the skull of Liopleurodon have shown that it could sample the water in stereo through its nostrils. This allowed it to tell where certain smells came from. If it swam along with its mouth open, water would pass straight up into scoop-shaped nostril openings in the roof of it's mouth, before passing out through the nasal openings in front of the eyes.
bobgote
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whatever happened to Deinonychus?
for years the bigger and scarier cousin of the velociraptor, when Jurassic park came out, he was all but forgotten (actually the velociraptors in JP were based size-wise on deinonychus - velociraptors are considerable smaller and lighter)
Deinonychus as second fiddle? I think not!
for years the bigger and scarier cousin of the velociraptor, when Jurassic park came out, he was all but forgotten (actually the velociraptors in JP were based size-wise on deinonychus - velociraptors are considerable smaller and lighter)
Deinonychus as second fiddle? I think not!
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Ossric
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ULTRAsaurus 
T-Rex-
as a n avid reader of National Geographic, I can say that while Giganotasuarus was POSSIBLEY bigger then T-rex
why? Giganotosarus skeleton is a full adult, and is about 42 feet long, while, with the exception of Sue, no T-Rex over the "teen age" years of the species has been found- but about 4 or 5 years ago(yes, I have a nice, long memeory),on a tv show I happend to catch a quite excavation mad the discovery of three Tyranosaurids, two adults, and one youngn' with the largest adult estimated at being 50 feet long- a number long held as the possible maximum extent of the rex , the "Tyrannosaurid" was large enough for a while, it was concerded that there might be a new species dubbed "Tyrannosaurus Imperator", but unfortunatel, I have heard no new news on the subjec tother then a while ago another (or mabey the same...) oung Tyrannosaurus nick nammed "Timmy" had been found...
as a n avid reader of National Geographic, I can say that while Giganotasuarus was POSSIBLEY bigger then T-rex
why? Giganotosarus skeleton is a full adult, and is about 42 feet long, while, with the exception of Sue, no T-Rex over the "teen age" years of the species has been found- but about 4 or 5 years ago(yes, I have a nice, long memeory
),on a tv show I happend to catch a quite excavation mad the discovery of three Tyranosaurids, two adults, and one youngn' with the largest adult estimated at being 50 feet long- a number long held as the possible maximum extent of the rex , the "Tyrannosaurid" was large enough for a while, it was concerded that there might be a new species dubbed "Tyrannosaurus Imperator", but unfortunatel, I have heard no new news on the subjec tother then a while ago another (or mabey the same...) oung Tyrannosaurus nick nammed "Timmy" had been found...
Ossric
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i wonder how they can conclude if it's an adult or a young sceleton? I guess that's why i'm no expert...
by the amount of fushion in the bones- ALL old animals from the earlies amphibians, to modern humans have joints that slowlly fush together with age- the current skeletons of Rexs dont show such fushion in the joints, except for "Sue", the famed North dakota T-rex, that also happent to MATCH the size of Gignotosaurus , but then it seems that those fused joints may have been caused to deisease, and not old age, as it seesm the animal had both gout, and a broken leg
, but then it seems that those fused joints may have been caused to deisease, and not old age, as it seesm the animal had both gout, and a broken leg
cgannon64
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I heard T-Rex couldn't run very fast, so he may have been a scavenger?
Something about thigh-leg ratios or something...if you can't tell, I tuned it out.
Something about thigh-leg ratios or something...if you can't tell, I tuned it out.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Megapnosaurus
Now that's a cool one!
Now that's a cool one!
Thorgrimm
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I gotta go with the king T-REX!
Originally posted by cgannon64
I heard T-Rex couldn't run very fast, so he may have been a scavenger?
Something about thigh-leg ratios or something...if you can't tell, I tuned it out.
its true- but that SAME ratio applies for all its prey animals as well
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The Great Head.
Not if the prey were smaller, but think of it like humans, we can't walk fast but compared to most mammals of our size we can walk for a much longer period of timeOriginally posted by Xen
its true- but that SAME ratio applies for all its prey animals as well
Superevie
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Stegosaurus! Dunno why, I've just also thought they were uber cool. 
stratego
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Tricerotops, because Billy was the coolest Power Ranger
