Preach to that final quote. I hate people "powerscaling" dinosaurs like they are fantasy creatures designed for battle between each other. They were animals, living creatures with fears, needs and varied levels of intelligence, adapted to their ecosystem. Trying to understand their behaviour just from fossilized remains is beautiful, and a herculean task. Gives them life anew, and proper respect.
Let's not forget that "we discovered the largest [insert here the name of the extinct animal group]" is usually more of a penis-measure competition, with strong political undertones, with grossly inflated numbers and blatant overestimations, than made with scientific motivation in mind. Especially with the recent Chinese advances in paleontology.
Got to love politics and how they use and manipulate science to their advantage. Never was ment for that in the first place,more it should be used as a way to communicate with other cultures and just for the pure fun of discovery and the knowledge that come with it
Never was ment for that in the first place,more it should be used as a way to communicate with other cultures and just for the pure fun of discovery and the knowledge that come with it
Human beings are political animals. Everything we do in society is political. And science, more specifically the uncompromising adherence to the rational method and the rigorous application of the scientific method, is ultimately a political stance, and a very radical one. Look at the history of Galileo or Giordano Bruno.
Nanotyranus is a smaller species of tyranosauroids that people thought of as just a younger trex for years. It was only recently confirmed that it was a valid genus after years of people denying it.
The ballad of Big Al the allosaurus
4.The original Spinosaurus fossils, discovered by Ernst Stromer, were tragically destroyed in 1944 during the British Royal Air Force bombing of Munich in World War II, specifically hitting the academy building where they were stored, despite Stromer's pleas to move them to safety due to the Nazi regime.
Saurophaganax became an invalid genus after the recent discoveries about it's fossil. Turns out it was a cimera fossil, aka two dead dinosaur on top of each other. One is a sauropod and the other is a species of allosaurus.
It's exactly what it sounds like
Pteranodontias have hollow bones. So it's very hard for them to fossilise.
Preach to that final quote. I hate people "powerscaling" dinosaurs like they are fantasy creatures designed for battle between each other. They were animals, living creatures with fears, needs and varied levels of intelligence, adapted to their ecosystem. Trying to understand their behaviour just from fossilized remains is beautiful, and a herculean task. Gives them life anew, and proper respect.
Rant over.
Let's not forget that "we discovered the largest [insert here the name of the extinct animal group]" is usually more of a penis-measure competition, with strong political undertones, with grossly inflated numbers and blatant overestimations, than made with scientific motivation in mind. Especially with the recent Chinese advances in paleontology.
Got to love politics and how they use and manipulate science to their advantage. Never was ment for that in the first place,more it should be used as a way to communicate with other cultures and just for the pure fun of discovery and the knowledge that come with it
Human beings are political animals. Everything we do in society is political. And science, more specifically the uncompromising adherence to the rational method and the rigorous application of the scientific method, is ultimately a political stance, and a very radical one. Look at the history of Galileo or Giordano Bruno.
Usually when an animal group produces its largest ever species thats a sign of bad things to come for the group to my knowledge.
Dinosaurs are animals, not monsters
Animals:
https://preview.redd.it/nlidg4km048g1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c17b07ba6c67806533003e54532ed9f9aa3438a
What scandle?!
Who's been having sex with fossils?!
https://preview.redd.it/lig5cgl58y7g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4dd331e2ada19e1b3a889320f8795a3a348bc6
When she touch your mammothingaling
https://preview.redd.it/ur8e1xppgz7g1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=878af95f4202b4f578a42b09e533faf2317b9893
What in the fuck lmfao
"I feel tingly"
"Don't say that when you're pressed up against me."
Unmatched ball knowledge
"Surely if attack from behind, it can't hit me with its trunk"
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This just popped up in my feed may I get some context?
The duling dinosaurs Fossil
Nanotyranus is a smaller species of tyranosauroids that people thought of as just a younger trex for years. It was only recently confirmed that it was a valid genus after years of people denying it.
The ballad of Big Al the allosaurus
4.The original Spinosaurus fossils, discovered by Ernst Stromer, were tragically destroyed in 1944 during the British Royal Air Force bombing of Munich in World War II, specifically hitting the academy building where they were stored, despite Stromer's pleas to move them to safety due to the Nazi regime.
Saurophaganax became an invalid genus after the recent discoveries about it's fossil. Turns out it was a cimera fossil, aka two dead dinosaur on top of each other. One is a sauropod and the other is a species of allosaurus.
It's exactly what it sounds like
Pteranodontias have hollow bones. So it's very hard for them to fossilise.
Thagomizer
Wasn't the "young tyrannosaur" in the dueling dinosaurs fossil actually a nanotyrannus though?
Oh yeah! I kinda forgot lol my bad
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Man imagine staying alive almost intact for 68 million years only to go to dust during the latest 0.0000073529% of your existence
People always forget about Bahariasaurus who suffered the same fate as Spino 😔
Honestly, them just being animals makes them so much more interesting than if they were just monsters.
Fr
Which one?
All of em
Okay that’s fair, I thought it was some sort of recent drama I don’t understand, or the Bone wars
This is peak
The pteranodontian statement is soooo true specially for me since i love them
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