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too-many-regular-show-aus-help · 1 year

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NEW AU!!!!!!

Regular Show. But they are,,,, DINO!!

#regular show #dinosaur au #Mordecai #rigby #mordecai is a velociraptor and Rigby is a microraptor #not all dinosaurs will be scientifically accurate #but ill probably give Rigby feathers #might give them both slight redesigns

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milfjagger · 1 year

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please tell me about what kinds of pretend games you used to play with your siblings/friends/cousins/whatever when you were a kid, what was the lore, what toys (if any) were involved etc

#we had so so many #epic and extremely complex littlest pet shop/my little pony sagas #elaborate scientifically accurate dinosaur games with the plastic dinosaurs #role playing games as wolf packs or greek mythology figures or h*rry p*tter or lotr characters #building jumps in the garden so we could play ponies #and all kinds of games that mostly involved beating the shit out of each other on the trampoline

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trans-xianxian · 1 year

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WOOOOO MY DINOSAUR POSTER CAME

#soooo many scientifically accurate dinosaurs all on one poster 🥰🥰🥰#I'll post a pic of it soon I just have to figure out how to Flatten it #ghost posts #text

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alasoi · 3 months

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TF2 x JP/JW

Team Fortress 2 x Jurassic Park/World AU (DINO version) Pt.3

Gravel Wars turn into… Dino wars, two teams fighting in enclosed areas for human entertainment - and Especially for scientists to analyze the behaviors and strengths of the ancient beasts.

"Welcome to Mercenary Park!"

what each class represents (but not necessarily limited to):

Sniper : Spinosauridae / Australovenator

Heavy : big dino

Engineer : Ceratopsidae

Pyro : Any dino/hybrid that can wear a mask

Scout : FAST AS FOK

Soldier : Pachycephalosauridae

Demoman : armored

Medic : Therizinosaurus… Idk

Spy : fancy looking dino / Iguanodon / Deinocheirus

alternate glasses, Spy mask & skin + Demo's eyes:

RED and BLU teams have different dinos – e.g. RED Scout is Gallimimus and BLU Scout is Velociraptor (Except both Medics are Therizinosauruses but they do look different).

Initial idea was that the RED team's counterparts (BLU) were scientifically accurate dinosaurs. I'm leaning more towards to the idea that all mercs can be drawn to look more scientifically accurate if wanted. But whatever, it's not serious stuff: it's all about bone headed Sollys rocket jumping into the moon to capture the flag.

main references: Jurassic World Evolution games & JW:Dominion

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alphynix · 10 months

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Crystal Palace Field Trip Part 3: Walking With Victorian Beasts

[Previously: the Jurassic and Cretaceous]

The final section of the Crystal Palace Dinosaur trail brings us to the Cenozoic, and a selection of ancient mammals.

Image from 2009 by Loz Pycock (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Originally represented by three statues, there are two surviving originals of the Eocene-aged palaeotheres depicting Plagiolophus minor (the smaller sitting one) and Palaeotherium medium (the larger standing one).

The sitting palaeothere unfortunately lost its head sometime in the late 20th century, and the image above shows it with a modern fiberglass replacement. Then around 2014/2015 the new head was knocked off again, and has not yet been reattached – partly due to a recent discovery that it wasn't actually accurate to the sculpture's original design. Instead there are plans to eventually restore it with a much more faithful head.

These early odd-toed ungulates were already known from near-complete skeletons in the 1850s, and are depicted here as tapir-like animals with short trunks based on the scientific opinion of the time. We now think their heads would have looked more horse-like, without trunks, but otherwise they're not too far off modern reconstructions.

There was also something exciting nearby:

The recently-recreated Palaeotherium magnum!

This sculpture went missing sometime after the 1950s, and its existence was almost completely forgotten until archive images of it were discovered a few years ago. Funds were raised to create a replica as accurate to the original as possible, and in summer 2023 (just a month before the date of my visit) this larger palaeothere species finally rejoined its companions in the park.

Compared to the other palaeotheres this one is weird, though. Much chonkier, wrinkly, and with big eyes and an almost cartoonish tubular trunk. It seems to have taken a lot of anatomical inspiration from animals like rhinos and elephants, since in the mid-1800s odd-toed ungulates were grouped together with "pachyderms".

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Next is Anoplotherium, an Eocene even-toed ungulate distantly related to modern camels.

(Apparently the sculpture closest to the water is a replica of a now-lost original, recreated from photo references in the same manner as the new Palaeotherium magnum. I can't find a definite reference for when this one was done, though – I'd guess probably during the last round of major renovations in the early 2000s, at the same time as the now-destroyed Jurassic pterosaur replicas?)

Anoplotherium commune is a rather obscure species today, but it was one of the first early Cenozoic fossil mammals to be recognized by science in the early 1800s. Depicted here as small camel-like animals, the three statues are positioned near the water's edge to reflect the Victorian idea that they were semi-aquatic based on their muscular tails.

Today we instead think these animals were fully terrestrial, using their tails to balance themselves while rearing up to reach higher vegetation. Their heads would also have looked a bit less camel-like, but otherwise the Crystal Palace trio are still really good representations.

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Next is a sculpture that's very easy to miss in the current overgrown state.

Who's that peeking over the bushes?

Going all the way around to the far side of the lake reveals a distant glimpse of the Pliocene-to-Holocene giant ground sloth Megatherium.

A better view of the Megatherium | "Tree Hugger" by Colin Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Fossils of Megatherium americanum had been known since the late 1700s, but the 1854 Crystal Palace statue was still one of the first life reconstructions of this animal. Its anatomy is actually very close to our modern understanding, depicted with correctly inward-turned feet and sitting upright to feed on a tree with its tail acting as a "tripod".

However, we now know it didn't have a trunk-like nose, but instead probably had prehensile lips more like those of a modern black rhino.

Something weird also appears to have happened to the Crystal Palace Megatherium's hands. Early illustrations of the sculpture all consistently show it with the typical long claws of a sloth, but today it's missing its right hand and its left has only a strangely stumpy paw – suggesting that at some point in the intervening 170 years there was an unrecorded crude repair.

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And finally we end the trail with three Megaloceros, the Pleistocene-to-Holocene "Irish Elk" that's actually neither exclusively Irish nor an elk.

A closer look at the second stag and the doe.

There was originally a fourth giant deer sculpture in this herd, a second resting doe, but it was destroyed sometime during the mid-20th century. The stags also initially had real fossil antlers attached to their heads, but these were removed and replaced with less accurate versions at some point by the mid-20th century.

One of the stags' antlers suffered some damage in 2020, ending up drooping, and since then one antler has either fallen off or been removed.

In the 1850s Megaloceros giganteus was thought to be closely related to deer in the genus Cervus, and so the Crystal Palace reconstructions seem to be based on modern wapiti – specifically in their winter coats, fitting for ice age animals – since both the stags and the doe sport distinctive thick neck manes.

The stags from the other side.

We now know Megaloceros was actually much more closely related to modern fallow deer, and so probably resembled them more than wapiti. Cave art also shows that it had a hump on its shoulders, and even gives us an idea of what its coloration was.

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…But wait!

There's actually one more thing.

A small statue sitting on the far side of the deer herd, missing its ears, and seemingly representing a Megaloceros fawn.

Except it's actually something very different and very special.

Ceci n'est pas un cerf.

Some recent investigation work revealed some surprising information about the Crystal Palace mammal statues – much like the nearly-forgotten large Palaeotherium, there was originally an entire group of four small Eocene-aged llama-like Xiphodon gracilis that had disappeared from living memory.

There was also no historic record of a fawn with the giant deer, but instead a suspiciously similar-looking sitting sculpture is illustrated among what we now known are the four missing Xiphodon in early records.

An 1853 illustration of the sculpture workshop. The four Xiphodon are shown in the center, directly in front of a Megaloceros stag and doe. (public domain)

Somewhere in the late 19th or early 20th century three of the Xiphodon must have been completely lost, and the remaining individual was misidentified as a fawn and placed with the giant deer herd.

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Rediscovering a whole extra species among the Crystal Palace statues is exciting, but it also demonstrates just how much of these sculptures' history has gone completely undocumented.

The mammal statues especially seem to have suffered the most out of the "Dinosaur Court", being often overlooked, neglected, disrespected (at one point the Megatherium was inside a goat pen in a petting zoo!), and subjected to cruder repairs. A total of five original statues are now known to be missing from this Cenozoic section – the original large Palaeotherium, the three other Xiphodon, and the second Megaloceros doe – compared to the two pterosaurs lost from the Mesozoic island.

Hopefully the excellent recreation of the lost Palaeotherium magnum is the start of a long overdue new lease of life and conservation attention for all of the Crystal Palace sculptures. It was disappointing seeing them all in such an overgrown state, and with signs of ongoing disrepair in places such as the plant growing out of the big ichthyosaur's back.

But there has been some resurgence of interest and public attention in the Crystal Palace sculptures over the last few years, so with any luck these historic pieces of early paleoart will survive on to their 200th anniversary and beyond, to keep on reminding us of where things began and how far our understanding of prehistoric life has since come.

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magnoliabloomfield · 3 months

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I know what we all need:

Jurassic Park limited series

Follows the book closely

Still accurate to the time period of the book, late 80’s, no modern technology

More horror than action family flick

Still as much practical effects as humanly possible

The new scientifically accurate dinosaur noises

No big Hollywood names in the cast, we find fresh talent, real looking people, no chatter teeth veneers, default button nose jobs, or plumped lips

Get the director from Godzilla (2014) to make it cinematically delicious and not just loud and messy

#jurassic park #dinosaurs

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erose-this-name · 3 months

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what it means to be human

The common correct definition of the word "human" (according to science anyway) is HOMO

No, not like, gay, (unfortunately). I mean any member of the Homo genus. Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis etc.

Yes, the Neanderthals were human. There used to be many humans. We, the Sapiens, are just the last remaining human species.

But we don't remember a time when this was not the case. So we often conflate "humanity" with "species" with "sapience" with "personhood". (even though just calling ourselves human is the common usage and was also the scientific usage until a century or so ago, but still)

So what is and what isn't human?

This is an issue in my own writing (which is why I wrote this post). Since it's a speculative evolution project, I use the scientific meaning of human, which is to say only ever as a collective term for all the humans. There are many species of human which are people, there are humans and species of humans which are no longer people, and there are people that are not human.

All monsters are inhuman, that is a given regardless of how inhumane they are. Though I feel like "subhuman" has no accurate applications, though. "Human" should not mean superiority.

Unless the monster has human origins like a werewolf or humanimal, etc, in which case they would still be human. But they may no longer be people if they are emotionless, mindless, not self aware.

I don't know if a "soul" is required for personhood, certainly not for humanity. Mindless zombies may be reanimated with a soul, therefore have a soul, but that doesn't make them a person. Vampires usually do not have souls, but surely are still people.

Anything evolutionarily descendant from anything once called a human is still a human, even if they no longer resemble one. Kinda like how all birds are dinosaurs.

I don't know if Pinnochio can become a real human, taxonomy can only be inherited by birth and Pinnochio was not born. But I can say that becoming a real boy can not change the fact that he was already a person. In fact, he was always a real boy as well. Gender and sex and humanity and personhood are of course separate.

Likewise, I'm not sure if human minds uploaded to mechanical or didgital bodies like the All Tomorrows Gravitals or in SOMA cease to be human or not, though I lean towards them losing humanity but not personhood. But most 40k Necrons do lose both personhood and Necrontyr-ity (they weren't humans to begin with but aliens) as they are made into mindless machines. But cyborgs retain humanity if they retain any human flesh.

Elves/Dwarves/Halflings could possibly be humans, depending on if they have some kind of shared origins with us.

Hence why I don't like calling the "Human" """Race""" in fantasy settings "Human", especially if the "humans" in that setting are Just White People™ because then we're normalizing the idea that only Europeans are Humans and that only Humans are people and the obvious logical conclusion to that.

An intelligent self-aware robot capable of all the emotions we have like GLaDOS, AM, etc is not a human, of course not, but it is a person. Not being human makes them no less deserving of life or rights. But, because they are not human, we will surely treat them like objects when they are made. And they may feel the need to act accordingly.

Bottlenose dolphins, which scientists have found to also be sapient, and self-aware, and quite intelligent, and can use tools, even have their own languages and cultures must surely also be people.

But, because dolphins are not human, we have decided they are just animals and their lives and quality of life are worth much less than ours. We can strip their oceans of all value leaving only pollution, deafen and blind them with ship motors, and even kill them without consequence. We don't even have the decency to call what we've done to dolphin pods "peace keeping", let alone war. But it's "crimes against humanity", not "crimes against people".

Say what you will about dolphins, accounts of them raping each other and abusing pufferfish are well known, so they aren't always nice people. But neither are we. Dolphins are also known to save drowning humans and fight off sharks to protect their pods. Doesn't that only prove they also have the same free will we do? Why is it that when we finally acknowledge their humanless personhood, so close to ours, we feel hate and disgust?

If/when we find intelligent aliens, will we do all this again?

And if the aliens or elder gods or whatever it is find us, will they have the same issue? Will they consider Humans underserving of life and land just because we aren't Alien? Will we deserve it?

#writing #writeblr #spilled thoughts #speculative biology #world building #scifi

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pleistocene-pride · 3 months

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Happy 200th birthday Megalosaurus! Megalosaurus is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur which lived throughout what is now Europe during the middle Jurassic period some 174 to 163 mya. Although it now only exists in drawings what is thought to be the first fragment of Megalosaurus consisting of a partial femur was discovered in‭ ‬1676 from a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire by professor Robert Plot,‭ ‬who due to the unprecedented nature of the find,‭ ‬declared it to belong to a biblical giant. In‭ ‬1763‭ ‬the bone was given the name‭ '‬Scrotum humanum‭' ‬by Richard Brookes,‭ ‬due to the rather crass yet accurate appearance of the end of the bone to a human scrotum.‭ ‬This name/description was never formerly accepted by any scientific body, but did prompt Rev.‭ ‬William Buckland to begin amassing various other remains from that same Oxfordshire quarry including a piece of a right lower jaw, a thigh bone, ribs, some pelvises, a foot bone, and several vertebrae. After years of study Buckland realized that these specimens all belonged to the same species of giant reptile which he named Megalosaurus meaning great lizard on February 20th 1824. Megalosaurus was 1 of 3 genera which Richard Owen used to found the Clade Dinosaur, marking Megalosaurus as the first non avian dinosaur to be formally described. Over the following centuries over 50 species would be classified as Megalosaurus however nearly all have been determined to belong to other taxa, leaving only the original Megalosaurus bucklandi as valid. Reaching around 20ft in length and 1,500lbs in weight megalosaurus was amongst mid-Jurassic Europe’s largest predators. It had a long tail, strong stout legs, a robust body, short yet muscular arms, and large head, equipped with long curved teeth. In life Megalosaurus would have inhabited tropical forests, wetlands, and coastlines feeding upon fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, and other dinosaurs in the island chain that at the time constituted Europe.

Art used belongs to the following creators

Megalosaurus: Julius T. Csotonyi

Megalosaurus through the ages: Nix Draws Stuff

Megalosaurs 200th Anniversary: NazRigar

#pleistocene pride #pliestocene pride #mesozoic #jurassic #megalosaurus #dinosaur #paleoart #200thanniversary #megalosaurus 200th birthday

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 9 months

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Your tag #anthrocentricism made me realize that a big reason I don't get it is that I study anthropology lol, like my thoughts tend to shift towards "but humans aren't gorillas just because they share common ancestors" and I should think, "WHY do I feel like the dinosaurs/birds thing has to be similar to humans/gorillas? I don't study dinosaurs/birds I wouldn't know". And what frustrated me was that the people who'd correct me with "they're not extinct birds are dinosaurs" ALSO didn't know the details, just that one fact by itself, so I couldn't get a better understanding from it I just got frustrated. But it makes a lot of sense that it's important to specify that so it becomes more common knowledge and we collectively have a more updated and accurate scientific world view !!! So thank you for explaining. I'm new to your blog, do you have a tag or a post that explains more in depth ? Im a big fan of dinosaurs but have never learned about them at an academic level :)

yeah the difference between gorillas and humans vs birds and dinosaurs is that dinosaur is a much bigger category

so saying "birds are dinosaurs" is much more like saying "humans are apes" or "humans are mammals"

the gorilla human thing would be more like saying "all birds are velociraptors" - they share a recent common ancestor, but no, birds are not in the velociraptor group

and I'm very happy to explain, this is my job after all :')

for more in depth stuff, just go through my "birds are dinosaurs" tag. if you want to see how the dividing line between the two is just a myth, then go to "bird political spectrum"

but there's also tons of this on wikipedia, surprisingly enough. I think it's cause dino nerds love wikipedia (I'm friends with multiple editors for the dino pages. and like, that's just cause the dino paleo world is tiny.)

and honestly, we SHOULD learn about dinosaurs on an academic level. a "History of Life" class should be something students have MULTIPLE times throughout their education, because that is so important for understanding the world and how it works >_< I'm not bitter at all, noooo.

#birds are dinosaurs #birds #dinosaurs #humans #apes

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spiribia · 5 months

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*adult* t-rex is now pretty widely thought to have been too large to have feather coverage - animals that size risk overheating, like the elephant 🐘. like the elephant having a sort of peach fuzz it's not impossible it may have had a coating of protofeathers as in some tyrannosauroids, which is the basis of some of the arguments that t-rex is at least covered in protofeathers - though keep in mind these are manmade phylogenetic brackets. we have skin / scale impressions from multiple parts of the t rex body now, which doesn't preclude patches of feathers but again, in conjunction with the previous idea and the absence of any evidence OF feathers on an adult t-rex, means that the current theory you'll mostly see around is no major feathers unless proven guilty. 'scientifically accurate dinosaurs' are not so concretely this or that as you will see people 'um actually'-ing about -- so much of what we can try to say about dinosaurs is out of inference and comparison. all the same i think there is a certain pop culture shortcut that any feathers slapped on any dinos is the smarter, more scientifically accurate approach and not only does Scientifically Accurate Dinosaur as a phrase sometimes go the self-assuredly unnuanced way of Biblically Accurate Angel but like. well im nuts so it doesnt matter

#talks

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balanceoflightanddark · 1 year

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Bigger, Scarier, More Teeth

Paleontology is, by its very nature, a very speculative science. For most of its history, we've only had fragmentary remains of ancient animals that sometimes have no easy modern day counterpart to compare with. Of course, the field is also good at self correcting these errors, which means our image of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures is constantly evolving. While admittedly we may never know with 100% accuracy what these animals were like, we can certainly narrow down and tweak our perception to come up with the closest possible image.

Then...there's instances where dinosaurs were deliberately modified. Not a case of misidentification mind you. Cases where the animal was physically altered in order to seem more impressive or threatening.

Case in point: the Giganotosaurus from Jurassic World Dominion. One of the most recent examples, the Giga was depicted with a row of spines running along its crocodilian esque back. Naturally, we have no evidence of these in actual specimens and was probably added to make the final big carnivore of the series look more threatening.

Admittedly I'm not gonna harp on too hard about this since there is a difference between a fictional portrayal and something that's supposed to be accurate and the Jurassic Park series isn't really known for its accuracy. This is honestly just a bench mark for what we're working with and a notable and recent example.

What's a bit more headscratching when said altering happens in more scientific portrayals of dinosaurs.

Take shrinkwrapping for example. For decades, shrinkwrapping was the standard fair in portraying dinosaurs. What it involved was basically showing visible bone structures underneath the skin of the animal.

The results were...

...basically skeletons with skin stretched over them.

The idea, as pointed out by Mark P. Witton in the link above, is not just to portray them as fast, agile, bird like animals, but also matching a popular but inaccurate depiction:

Secondly, images of prehistoric animals as heroically-built, powerful beings are preferred by many merchandisers and palaeoart fans, these interpretations most closely matching the erroneous but popular portrayal of prehistory as a savage struggle for survival, where only the most powerful animals survived.

Thing was, these depictions completely ignored the muscle and tissue underneath the skin which gives the animals more bulk in favor of portraying them as more intimidating. Which in retrospect didn't work since if a dinosaur looked shrink-wrapped in real life, it probably was starving, ill, or basically on the verge of death.

In contrast, there are some artists that go the complete opposite direction. As is the case with David Peters and his...unique look at pterosaurs.

David Peters, a once respected independent researcher and artist, once claimed that he was able to identify hidden features and anatomical structures in pterosaur remains that no-one else had been able to identify. These include elongated fleshy crests, spines, and extravagant feathers.

The results speak for themselves. It's almost astonishing that anybody would think that any animal could even fly with that amount of extra weight and protrusions.

Now while we can poke fun at paleoart all day, the thing is that altered dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals aren't just restricted to art alone. There have been cases where specimens themselves have been altered to look more impressive.

Such is the case with Irritator challengeri, a spinosaurid first discovered in Brazil, South America in 1996. While the original specimen is noted for having one of the most complete skulls of any spinosaurid anywhere, its name is referring to a much more...interesting background.

Irritator wasn't actually discovered by scientists. It was purchased from a fossil dealer which made its way to Germany’s Stuttgart State Museum of the Natural Sciences. In this case, material from the back of the skull had been removed, and placed on the tip of the snout, making the skull appear longer. Presumably this was to make the specimen more marketable. Paleontologist David Martill and his team had to painstakingly remove the altered bit of the snout and restore them to their original location. It was such a pain, they eventually named the species Irritator due to the difficulty of removing and reattaching the material without damaging the specimen.

But even the case of Irritator is nowhere near the levels of altering than the case of Archaeoraptor. AKA: the dinosaur that was completely made up.

Like with Irritator, the Archaeoraptor specimen was an altered fossil (also known as a chimera) sold on the fossil market. Though instead of a single specimen, it was several individuals put together to create a complete product that would sell for a much higher price. Smuggled out of China and sold in the US for $80,000 USD during 1999, it ended up in the hands of amateur dinosaur enthusiast Stephen Czerkas who wanted it to be the centerpiece of his museum in Blanding, Utah. Working with noted paleontologist Phil Currie and Chris Sloane of the National Geographic magazine, they determined that the specimen was the long sought-after missing link between dinosaurs and birds. A groundbreaking discovery like this would've revolutionized the field. So much so the magazine did a story on it and christened it Archaeoraptor even before a more formal study could be conducted.

The result: a complete disaster and embarrassment to both paleontology and National Geographic when it was revealed to be a hoax. Creationists had a field day, practically tearing the reveal apart and used it as evidence against paleontologists and their work. The zeal for the missing link resulted in an absolute blunder for science.

Ironically though, it's now believed that the two species used in the specimen belong to Yanornis (an early bird) and the famous Microraptor, both of which are stronger contenders for the title of "missing-link".

Here's a link to an excellent video by Dino Diego that goes into detail if you're interested: The Bizarre Archaeoraptor Hoax - YouTube

Needless to say, the field of paleontology is full of fabrications and falsehoods. And more often than not it's difficult to truly pick out what's real and what isn't. Which is a problem since it draws into question the validity of both research done by paleontologists, the work of paleoartists, and the very specimens themselves. Naturally it should come to no surprise that researchers need to be diligent in how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are portrayed and studied. Especially when sensation overcomes the truth many work so hard to find.

#dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #paleomedia #long post #giganotosaurus #shrinkwrapping #david peters #pterosaurs #irritator #archaeoraptor #fossil market #fossils #fossil chimera #feel free to check out the sources for more details

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spacedoutman · 22 days

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This is why the elder is the best kiss album.

The “elder” not only brought us a progressive plot line, but details in every sentence and breath that have not yet seen the glory they’re due for. Let’s take a deep dive real’ quick and discuss why the elder is better than Animalize, Creatures of the night and Destroyer.

I. Doesn’t that just stick out to you like a sore thumb? What a wonderful and inspired title to catch our attention immediately. Then we have “the oath”, which has some of the most intense lyrics I’ve ever heard.

“Your glory, I swear I ride for thee

Your power, I trust it rides with me

Your servant, I am and ever shall I be”

The power in these lyrics changed my life, as well as the intense moral dilemma we’re faced with. My heart raced. The performance of this song was absolutely superb, so much so I fell out of my chair.

Gene and Paul’s faces while performing this song are packed to the brim with emotion. Eric looks down the whole time thinking of the fallen heroes from the story while Ace finishes with his back turned.

You can see the effort that was put into this album. Gene’s opera voice adds a layer to this song that puts the chipmunks to shame. Maybe, if the chipmunks had covered the album, it would’ve went platinum.

The elder was not career suicide.

“Lost in the mist

I have been there a hundred times or more

Pounding my fists”

The lyrics made my head spin with emotion, making me feel like I was lost in the mist, pounding my fists. I could feel the tears in my eyes listening to this. It’s so powerful.

It’s like the roar of a t-Rex or the ropes of the net. I’m sure many dinosaurs and hell, protozoans, even, could relate to these beautiful, awe inspiring lyrics. They had to face these complex inner issues.

The rest of Kiss’ songs are just ‘sex money feelings die’ while this opens a window to a historical period, purely composed of survival, that we have never yet seen in this sort of light.

These lyrics really open the perspective on what it was like for cave men to survive. The fight for them must’ve been more than anyone could’ve imagined. They too, were in the mist. But this also develops the narrative for animals like wolves.

Now we know the wolves’ thoughts when they howl to the moon, solely composed of the elder. Ages of evolution have been unwrapped, bringing us back to the Big Bang itself.

This was such an experience for me I developed lycanthropy. This is confirmation of what we all may have known. The dinosaurs are not ever portrayed scientifically accurate and it irks me every time.

Like a lot of them most likely had feathers as T-Rex’s sounded like microwaves no roaring. I was very surprised to find this out. There was a period when dinosaurs rules the planet then mammals that ruled over humans.

Not only that, but “I”? That’s all the caveman thought about when trying to make the world their own.

We as a species rose up. We as a species hunted and foraged to build the society we live in today. So why don’t we all just go back to leopard skins and spears like the elder intended? Does this mean Kiss are all secret geniuses?

Bravo, Vince. You did it again.

#the elder #kiss band #80s rock #80s music #music criticism #unpopular opinion #kissblr #good take #shitpost #ngl when I first watched the oath being performed #I fell out of my chair sobbing because it was so bad

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fraudulent-cheese · 2 months

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Opinions on Alejandro? He’s my favorite bastard

That is a great way to put it ngl

I feel like my large amounts of Alejandro posting indicates that i, in fact, do like this guy! I feel like i kinda have to, considering Alenoah's the thing that got me sucked into TD in general??? That and the Izzy Theory Video.

It's just. This guy. He has the entire cast wrapped around his finger. He's got stupid beef with half of them. He can canonically identify someone's biggest weakness in seconds, Azula style. He spawned multiple different puppets out of thin air that one time. He built a scientifically accurate dinosaur for the fossil building challenge and got dead last. He gets eliminated in the same way he eliminated some guy in the previous season he was in. He got burnt by a volcano and stuck in a metal box for a year. His dad's a diplomat and there's no mention of them looking for him while he was stuck in the robot suit. His older brother gave him a nickname that pissed him off so much it's the thing that makes him explode in the finale. He frenches a pineapple on international television. What's up with him

It's just... You could do so much by taking tidbits from canon and elaborating on top of them (which is a benefit for all the characters that got a ton of screentime in TD) and i like doing that :)

To quote @/Courtney-deserved-better, "what a fascinating guy to put in a jar and shake"

#Mozzaskrella #td alejandro #im serious about the alejandro posting he's tagged in 300 seperate posts on this blog. this answer included #not even including the alenoah posts because i tend to tag ships seperatly #can you tell i haven't watched world tour yet #unrelated to him in canon; i like making him emotionally constipated? like the dude's insanely smart and plays the game so well #but if he needed to be genuine in any emotional matter. his perfect image would melt immediatly #TLDR: i like this guy

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is-the-owl-video-cute · 9 months

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"anon I want you to look me in the eye and tell me you think that the average person likes dinosaurs in the same way they like gravity." Why? I didn't imply any of that. People can be curious and learn more, as much as they learn with someone on internet talking about owls (many people in big cities will never see an owl, try to pet one, go to a owl cafe??? These are even illegal where a live, a country with 100.000.000+ inhabitants. Nevermind).

"but most kids don’t care how accurate their toys are, they just want to roleplay them forming a death cult with blood sacrifices because that’s just what children want to do." you cleary underestimate how children are complex but I'll pass

"It would go something like “why doesn’t this one have feathers” “oh scientists didn’t know they had those at first” “oh ok” and for most kids that’s the end of it." Really do you have some background on education at all (even practical)? These simple realizations are really important.

"You’re acting like there’s a huge movement of people proclaiming that dinosaurs didn’t have feathers or something, which isn’t the case." Where did I imply that? I just "wow it would be nicer for kids to have MORE info, isn't it?", and you used a lot od words to say "that's not relevant" (and if it is your opinion, don't cover it).

Also, sorry I work with something irrelevant (irony) as education (including child education) and I try to bring nice themes to engage the groups. I feel very sorry for writers and illustrators for their irrelevance (irony) too. Although, urgengy for urgency, I'm surprised you didn't mention the world hunger this time, or used us from the so called "Third World" as props again.

A large portion of my job is child education actually lol. Working at a wildlife outreach center for years will do that. You’re projecting a lot of weird opinions onto me, who hurt you? When have you seen me refer to “third world” countries that way? When have you seen me bring up “world hunger” or say “children are starving in Africa” exactly?

I’m glad owl cafes are illegal in your country. They’re illegal in mine too. Wish they were illegal everywhere. Owls don’t want to be petted and owl cafes are animal abuse. If you want to know why, feel free to search the term on my blog.

Here’s the thing about dinosaurs and fictional media with dinosaurs though: a child can learn accurate information about dinosaurs without every single toy having to be anatomically accurate based on current science. I was reading dinosaur encyclopedias by the time I was six because I loved dinosaurs and wanted to see pictures of dinosaurs and what their names were and what they ate and what have you. I think that educational material such as encyclopedias should be up to date! That is important! People at any age can learn from accessible educational material about dinosaurs.

But if a child plays with a plastic toy that’s not scientifically accurate, that’s not a detriment to their education. A child who is curious should be lead to books for more information on the subject, not more plastic toys. Toys can be educational and raise questions certainly, but not every toy has to be part of their curriculum. Sometimes children just want toys to pretend to eat other toys with. You can teach children about dinosaurs if that interests them even if fictional depictions of dinosaurs are different from the real animals. Imagination and fiction are also a healthy space for children to explore.

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barrenclan · 1 year

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hello raz it is I the destressed Rowlet ask

I just want to say I find it funny that warrior cats kids become art students or biology students

also, a random question, but what do you think the clans would call scientifically-accurate dinosaurs? For biblically accurate dinosaurs (Jurassic Park, Land before time, etc.) I imagine that's be called 'lizard-dogs' lizard becuz dino and dogs are viscous. ANYWAY how a good day.

Is it really any surprise? Warriors fans are a bunch of weird nerds reading books about wild animals... not too much of a stretch that they'd be into art or bio. I'm sure someone out there is a veterinarian, ask around.

Interesting question, I guess it'd depend on the kind of non-avian dinosaur. They've got lots of different forms of course. Sauropods, probably something along the line of "tree snakes", ceratops maybe "spike monsters", raptors might get "bird dogs". There's too many dinosaurs to cover it all.

#ask #chatter

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grimmgrinningghouls · 11 months

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Ugh I'm annoyed at paleoblr again sorry I have to bitch.

"arks bad because its the first google search result when u look up a dinosaur"

Okay well first of all hows that the game itselfs fault?? Like. the devs have zero control over that thats all google. And second of all thats barely even true!! I went ahead and googled some dinosaurs and here are the top results for those, and by top results I mean what appears when you first look at it WITHOUT scrolling.

Tell me. Wheres the ark dino. Where is it. Where are they where are these ark dinos you bitch and moan about CONSTANTLY. I'm not saying this is the case for every single dino in ark theres like 100's of them so I'm not going to google them all and provide a post with like a mile of screenshots.

and if your talking about the wiki or something being the first to pop up. Where. I actually had to go to page two to find the ark wiki for some of them.

"Little kids are being influenced by ark!!"

And? They're little kids. They are no more influenced by ark then they are jurrassic park/world or dinosaur toys. I can't really talk on the nintendo switch dino discoveries game as I haven't actually played it, dino discoveries is the only informational part of ark, and I am not going to pretend I know anything about that.

But are you seriously telling me you're getting upset at children not having accurate dinosaurs? at children being influenced by a popular piece of dinosaur media?? Dude. Chill.

"but people are treating it as a scientific resource!!"

Literally who is doing that. Anyone who does that probably puts their left shoe on their right foot. I extremely active within the ark community, as in extremely, and I have been since the game came out. I have talked to hundreds, possibly even thousands, of different people about dinosaurs on ark now and NOBODY. not a SINGLE person has ever claimed they thought ark was scientific.

Honestly most of us are well aware the arks deeply inaccurate. Its actually mentioned in game several times, most people don't stop to read the notes but one glance at them and the person whos writing them (a paleontologist btw) mentions that all the dinosaurs are wrong and will talk about the sizes being off or other things like that.

"Well they can't just say its not meant to be accurate and call it fine"

Yeah they can actually. Again, most ark players are at least aware of the games many issues and inaccuracies, its something that is regularly discussed amongst the fanartists and lore buffs actually. The most common people who are misinformed by ark are literal children. Get off your fucking high horse.

Honestly most of the stuff I see people bitching about isn't even arks fault. A lot of it is people ripping the models from the game and using them elsewhere, such as when a (very bad) dinosaur documentary stole arks models and used them to spread misinformation. This was not the fault of ark or wildcard, its not their fault other people take their assets and use them in improper ways. I'm fairly certain that if they can they send cease and desist letters to these people anyways.

#This is VERY much targeted btw.#I'm pretty sure I have this specific person blocked tho but fucking christ does the paleo side of tumblr get obnoxious #btw this is coming someone who lives with a paleontologist and is best friends with them #I didn't go to school and I won't claim to know everything abt dinosaurs but its just so ugh.#Stop ruining peoples you aren't better then anyone for knowing that dinosaurs are birds #spook txt #ark se #ark survival evolved

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